No stew for thee!
No stew for thee!
What the 20,000th digit of pi on base-8?
That's easily the premise of a Steampunk novel.
I wonder who won the dot contest. Or what is a dot contest, for that matter.
About 50 million dollars of difference.
I generally agree with his views, both political and philosophical, with the exception relating to Venezuela.
An actual encyclopedic work of fiction? Roberto Bolaño's Nazi Literature in the Americas. I got a few odd glances while reading it, but it's an awesome book.
As a SF fan living in a developing nation, I've always had the sensation sicence fiction is primary the work produced on a stable enough society that can visualize different versions of their "now" and as such, it's generally regarded the output of developed nations. Do you think it's necessary a certain progress or…
¡Coño de la madre!
I see, I've never seen Stalker, though.
Certainly there's a certain joke for the viewer about the idea that present-time can be so apathetic, deshumanizing, esterile and distant thst it might as well be a futuristic city on the moon. An ideé fixé on European cinema at the time (Tati's Mon Ocle, the beginning of Solaris). It plays on our expectations as…
Mein Fhürer, ve're all in tis together!
A grossly underrated classic!
I find it interesting that he seems to generally write in Spanish with cursive and English with print letters. Spanish is also my first language and English my second one and I do that as well.
Gravedigging is still awfully common in some countries, either looking to take valuables from the bodies or for rituals.
Not the first time Dr. Gonzo appears on a children's film, though:
When are we introduced to President Eden?
Anybody remembers an animated short about a kid's drawing being mistaken for a treasure map and the whole thing scales up bringing the worst of humanity until it ends with a king and his army knocking the doors of hell? I've looking that for ages. It was done painting over a black background, I believe.
Any show that uses Saint-Saens' "Danse Macabre" deserves a glimpse.
I suspect he would prefer be a member of TROGDOR than COBRA.