"I am afraid of death, and my response to this is to dump my wish-fulfillment fantasies in response to this fear onto young children."
If he's so solipsistic that he can't recognize the basic repulsiveness of doing this, I can see why he might have a marked problem with death.

"I am afraid of death. My solution to this is to impose my wishful thinking about the problem on young children."

Well, if Stolyarov is such a solipsist that he can't see why this is a repulsive thing to do, I can see why death would be a problem for him.

Yes to all of that. Exactly my responses to the show.

Perhaps the notion should be to reward the concrete plan for action that follows *from* the failure.

Gotta love the note-perfect Ultraman look.

I think King's assessment of both himself and Kubrick is very astute. King is fundamentally a sentimental writer — and I mean that in the best possible way. He does want to reach out to the reader, to speak to the reader's own generosity and humanism. Kubrick is the antithesis of sentimental — not only is he cool…

"Sitting on a train, sipping wine is not what we are about."
You don't own the definition of all American commuters and you don't speak for me.

Bitch please, get a thicker skin.

Source for that 99.9% statistic on Christians who don't believe in a 6,000 year old earth?

Ah, but their very lack of sympathy is also a function of the situation.

I once dated a woman whose role model was Maleficent.

As a male supporter of feminism, I think something that will make one a more *effective* supporter — not to mention signal a sincere, proactive engagement with the issues — is to know something about the history of feminism. Who are the major feminist thinkers? What are the major feminist texts? Have your read…

I think you're confusing action-oriented self-assessment with paralyzing self-judgment. The central point of the article that there's a version of being an "optimist" or a "positive thinker" that's based on an irresponsible refusal to assess one's own behavior realistically, and thus to change it. The article is…

So long, Gerry Anderson — you helped fill my kidhood years with science-fictional fun and visual excitement.

I'd still like to see the storyboards Ridley Scott drew for "Alien" published in their entirety. He was a really gifted artist.

Thanks a lot for that link. That is one well-written article.

I don't know what the rest of "Holy Terror" is like, but I'm struck by how the first panel (and to a lesser degree, the second) is swamped by its own word balloons. Miller doesn't want to draw, he wants to monologue.

Especially since Kitsune's question was rhetorical. But you used it as an occasion to keep on talking.

Utterly baffled by the mixed critical response this film has been getting. It moves along quite briskly (I see no problem with infodumps; at the very least nothing to distinguish it from LOTR), the performances are very good, it's tonally consistent with the source material, it's visually phenomenal, it's *way* less…