I read several of the books in a row a while back. I came to the conclusion that Lee Childs (a Brit who apparently never served in the military) knows little about the US and less about the military.

And i know a lot more, too.

Nope. Seriously - watch the two sequences back to back.

More like the people who made "Friday the Thirteenth" after watching "Halloween" … and all they understood how to recreate about that film was the gore.

The final sequence in "Black Hole" is basically a recreation of the "Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria" sequence from "Fantasia".

"In space, no one can hear yer sireen."

I'll guarantee i've read more of those than you have.

Geeze. That column-head shot - he had more hair, and that combover looks, if possible, worse than the one he has now.

The closest to goosebumps i come, i suppose, would be Billy's recording of "God Bless the Child" or Cowboy Junkie' "Walkin' After Midnight".

The closest to goosebumps i come, i suppose, would be Billy's recording of "God Bless the Child" or Cowboy Junkie' "Walkin' After Midnight".

The closest to goosebumps i come, i suppose, would be Billy's recording of "God Bless the Child" or Cowboy Junkie' "Walkin' After Midnight".

"Alien" is a creepy-castle gothic ghost story that happens to be set on a space ship.

lousy movie. There's only one reason it's not the worst in the series - "Crystal Skull"

As the old joke goes

Well, hey - it was started by geeks when they were still in college.

Consider Rachel Summers before you say that.

And they had to use makeup to fake it.

Creepy.

I remember an ad from Ritz Photo back in the early Aughties - picture of a conservatively dress, chubby, balding guy looking embarrassed and a picture (supposedly the same guy) back in the Seventies: Groovy clothes, mustache, super-cool shades, a shoulder bag (read "purse") standing on what may have been a London…

As a Baby Boomer, i tried a Big Mac forty-some years ago and have never been tempted to waste my money on another of the nasty things.