It was working on its Thunderbird 2 imitation.

And you, presumably, represent the bitter old man constituency.

Very much enjoyed the first film, and felt it held up under repeated viewing. Enjoyed the second film, but did not feel it held up under repeated viewing. I just don't feel Tolkien had a major thematic obsession with how many different ways you can skewer an orc.

Sheev works just fine for me.

Very sorry, Annalee.

I read Perdido Street Station and thought it was flat-out bad. (This from a guy who loves Delany, Russ, Disch, Crowley, etc. etc. "Difficult" writing is not a turn-off for me.) I just felt it didn't work on any level, even very elementary ones. But everyone praised the book to high heaven. So I have simply…

Holy Rene Magritte, Batman!

Don't like the "no irises" eyes on everyone. Seems unnecessary and distracting.

Article wording is ambiguous. Who is committing the violence in the societies dominated by women? Do you mean there are more acts of violence by men, more acts of violence by women, or what? It seems that the violence is still committed by the men, but if that's so, the article should be clear about that throughout.

Reminds me of the carnivorous seaweed-pit some hapless guy gets thrown into in the old '60s horror-adventure B-movie, "The Lost Continent." (Sorry, I have no accompanying clip.)

The poster was the model for the comic book cover, and it's the same artist — Howard Chaykin.

Fernand Braudel rockity-rocks. His study of the Mediterranean was way ahead of the curve, and could indeed serve as a model for long-term histories of the human/environment interplay. He influenced tons of historians back in the day, and it's gratifying to see him coming back onto the broader public stage.

The opening scene of Episode 2 (Season 1) of Twin Peaks. (Which runs from 1:58 to 6:14 above.) I hadn't seen what came before, so this was my first experience of the show.
Nothing especially dramatic happens in the scene, but that's just the thing: what's presented as "normal" — in terms of pacing, tone, and…

Every dragon is in the position of not knowing whether it has green eyes. If it is true that at least one of the 100 dragons has green eyes, then if their numbers were reduced by one, it would still be true that one of the 99 had green eyes. And so on back through 98, 97, 96... If that number were reduced to 2, then…

Breathtaking. Amazing.

I'm confused by the wording of the riddle. Does the visitor *tell* them he's going to tell them something he thinks they all already know? (In other words, is his announcement that at least one of has green eyes framed by, "Of course you all already know that...")

It was absolutely an abortion episode. And when you think about it, much of what doesn't make sense about the episode can be directly attributed to the various story elements being rigged in such a way as to produce an anti-abortion message.

Like, for starters: when it is learned that the moon is an egg (and don't…

That's great! She has amazing control.

So: the anti-abortion propaganda episode. I like that the nominal villain is a childless woman. Nice touch.

But conservative groups do do this, and it can become a public policy problem. Look at how they responded to the AIDS crisis. The political response to a health crisis is a relevant thing to bring up.