I wan to see Lenin's head in an 18 foot paper party hat.

Ah, Moldavian Lenin, of the Lollipop Guild. Also, I half expect The Independence Monument of Turkmenistan to contain a roller coaster.

They say "nothing moves at that speed", yet the report never once showed the film running at normal speed. So many quick cuts and hi-speed/lo-speed/rewind with silly sound effects. I'll bet the editing guys could tell exactly what it was, but that wasn't marketable. My money is on bug for the original film and bird…

I know the car itself is $57K+, but I haven't heard anyone say how much maintenance is when those batteries go out - which all batteries do.

I dunno. It too almost three quarters for Kansas State to draw a bead on North Texas, by no means a powerhouse team. Kansas State is really good, but they're not unshakeable.

That's certainly where it all started. Silver used to analyze stats for professional baseball before he dove into the stats of political elections.

It's not just averaging, its looking at the past accuracy of each poll in order to weight it within the prediction. That's a lot of intricate math, with very little guesswork or fudging. I respect the guy for showing his work.

I've started digging into the history of war games lately. You'd be surprised how many processes and components of D&D and other modern RPGs were in use centuries ago. Jon Peterson's "Playing at the World" is a pretty fascinating book.

I only cringed at the violence while watching, but I remember having nightmares about the Black Rabbit of Inlé.

I didn't expect them to execute as well as they did. Parts it did recapture a very Pushing Up Daisies vibe. Eddie Izzard was pitch perfect for this (getting even more entertaining as he more and more got to do things his way), O'Connell was better than I expected. My favorite moment was watching him in the…

The Haunting "Someone's at the door". 1 AM, alone in my first apartment, my first year in college. I honestly believed a black and white film couldn't scare me, and I wound up spending the rest of the night with the lights on. Later on, that same year, watching Alien for the first time did the same damn thing.

"Is Cloud Atlas an unholy mess or a brilliant masterpiece? Yes."

Interesting. Skimming the other "1925 Lost World" print found on YouTube and repeated here in the forum, I'm not finding these exact scenes. However, these appear to be shot on many of the same miniature sets, and mostly seem to be even more polished than the clips used in the film print - with less tinting, smoke…

I'm fairly certain this was the footage, released to theaters in 1925. (Audio was added later.) Remember, 1925, movies were fairly new and frame-by-frame animation almost nonexistent. Since the prank was in 1922, odds were that only a small portion of this footage was finished, and Doyle was doing his best to…

And after all was said and done, wigged out blonde werewolf girl takes time to edit Piggy's film into a video for Sam and Dean. Annoying as hell that the boys didn't even realize they were being filmed A LOT. Please, oh please, if we have to have home video shakeycam, give us more GhostFacers. (I did laugh at the…

Many years ago, Six Flags over Texas had a lightly visited gravity shack like this tucked into a shortcut between the exit and the entrance to the log flume, including a short spiel from a tour guide. After they started cutting the budget in favor of big roller coasters, the guide disappeared, but if you knew where…

A Winter Haunting is a very underrated Simmons horror novel. You could finish the whole book wondering "was the narrator being haunted, cracking up or both?" It's not jump out and shock you scary, but sometimes non-stop creepiness can carry the day. Best to read Summer of Night first.

I love Carrion Comfort, but it never made me wonder "What just made that noise?" the way The Terror did. Carrion Comfort was a revelation for me because what happened to the protagonists *exactly* halfway through the book (no spoilers!) showed me just how rote Stephen King's approach to horror had become at the time.…

It'll probably be large enough to require building it into your couch.

No way in hell are you ever going to get me to read Madame Bovary again. Having to read that book in college put me off books for almost seven years.