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These books have been around for decades! The first one was published in ‘79. VC Andrews died in 1986. Most of these were ghost written by someone else. Basically she started off as a writer and illustrator of perfectly normal dull stuff but was told by a publisher in 1975 that the original version of Flowers In The…

Several years ago, I remember my wife yelling, “OH MY GOD”, so I go to where she is, looking out the sliding glass door onto the patio. There, on the patio, are two house sparrows beating the living shit out of each other. But, the thing that caught her (and me) by surprise was the fact that there was a ring of…

I’ve always wanted someone to write Flowers for Algernon in the Attic — this miraculous treatment has increased my intelligence a hundredfold! But it also filled me with strange desires towards my sibling...

Is that poor woman going to have to make a Sophie’s Choice a few years down the line to choose which Aibo to cannabalize for parts to save the other?

I was working (as a programmer) at the Lunar & Planetary Institute in Clear Lake, Texas when Voyager 1 flew by Saturn in July, 1980. LPI set up a large-screen TV in the large two-story lobby[1], and we all gathered around to watch as pictures came in from Voyager. Almost everyone else there was a planetary scientist,…

Wait, Kimmy AND Titus Adromedon together in a movie?

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. It taught me to be a better storyteller and a better artist in general.

Now that is both shiny AND chrome. Witness them!

Go home Wishbone, you’re drunk!

God this show must have been so funny to work on. Well that or horrible because you have to get a dog into human clothes and do all those things.

And the TV show most faithful to the books:

First things first she’s the realest

Igloo Australia is on notice.

If Spokane is anything like the Internet, then being an opinionated white person is the only qualification she ever needed to be an expert on race relations.

Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy.

Actually it’s canon that instead of Quidditch, Americans play a game called Quodpot in which the balls occasionally explode

My original answer before thinking: Like the set of Glee, only much more fabulous.

Considering the Salem Witch Burnings, however, I would surmise a more fortress like set of buildings with wizards and witches trained to be more apprehensive and prejudiced toward Muggles. There would be an undercurrent of…