I'm gonna need Michelle Bachmann's jaws of life to uncross my legs after reading this!

When you hear the crack, if you shake it up, will it start to glow?

Damn! Where did he get such a nice wool coat for his inflatable sheep?

two popscicle sticks and some gauze.

I haven't played a SimCity Game since the original. I spent hours on it at-a-time. I liked how the game music changed from sedate to fast-paced as the population grew and the "recovering from various disasters" scenarios the best. The most annoying part of the game was "Mario Gore" kept popping-up and pestering me…

Great article. While I feel I've dealt more hurt and grief to the people that cared for me—or tried to—than anyone ever gave me, for the record I regret it. God, I so goddamn regret it now. I didn't grow up saying I wanted to be a selfish tool in life, but it happened. Now I feel 10x the pain inside me that I so…

OMG! I hated that poem as a 13-year-old because it was the first one I had to memorize, interpret, and de-construct in my first serious "English" (litereature) class in junior high school. "It's a freakin' poem! It's not meant to make sense!" I used to scream. For years I dreaded "classic" poems and short stories…

I think the networks Hulu gets their programming from have a say in determining their ad breaks. Newer shows from FOX and NBC seem fairly short brakes (around a minute or less), but older "catch-up episodes have longer breaks, having more of a captive audience to sell to. Most CBS shows are run through their own…

When it coms to Hulu, it seems it depends on where the shows are coming from. Recent shows from Fox and NBC have relatively short ads (but get longer midway through the show), but CBS is the WORST. They don't carry any shows on Hulu anymore I can see and on CBS.com they have ads like three-four minutes long (mostly…

A chat friend of mine recommended this program and this site and just so happens it uses the same blogger program as Io9.com so I was already signed into it here. Glad I read all your comments first! This looks super suspicious to me whether or not it really works, so I'll just deal with the ads and be (relatively)…

Just goes to show "if a thousand years is like a day" to God, then I guess that's what it's like when He kicks back to watch a marathon..

Or G.R.R.M. might have simply been inspired by Anne McCaffrey's Pern stories in regards the unusual geological/astronomical phenomena of the titular world (e.g. the Red Star passages, etc—and oh yeah, the dragons...). At one time, I even wondered if the Game of Thrones world actually was some distant-future version…

It's "The Mare of Steel" from the 1964 film The Long Ships, a Viking-style mythological-adventure film probably made to compete with the popular Jason and the Argonauts, and Sinbad "ship all filled with men" films of the time, but without the Ray Harryhausen stop-motion f/x. Basically, some Vikings from the North…

No love for Drzzt/Forgotten Realms?

I could imagine the smiles on the faces of the managers of fabric outlets across the country as cosplayers scramble to update their outfits to properly match those of the films before the next "con"...

Unfortunately, most of these projects would only work for a more sublime species than the human race. That will always be the case.

I Think Weyland should have also come up with a few special-ed classes for...

If centaurs get a pass here, then I'm going for The Last Unicorn.

I guess I was just at the right age to really enjoy The Black Hole when it came out. The gothic look, the awesome John Barry music (which saved the film) really got to me. I was so pissed when Siskel and Ebert both gave it tumbs-down on their At the Movies show of the time (they gave Star Trek the Motion Picture…

The last one (the Thanksgiving one) is the best. Naturally, there's a Smilex gas bomb inside the pig because—he's the Joker for cryin' out loud! ;)