They could call it TrunkStories, where all the stories you couldn't sell go to die.

I was heading down to the comments to make just this suggestion. It is a perfect blend of The Martian Chronicles and The Searchers, and I'm not ashamed to admit I like it better than both (well, better than The Searchers anyway). Lethem's said that he was worried people would notice the similarities, but they actually…

1) No way that sword is any older than the woman holding it.

Never realized until now how much Manson looks like Billy Crudup:

I'm in a similar boat, though I actually like both halves of the movie. But you're definitely right, it feels like two totally different movies. I'd watch one where the Gecko brothers didn't meet up with vampires, no doubt about it. Especially with how the media coverage is handled, it feels like Natural Born Killers…

I think it's at least implied that all the lady assassins are members of the Fox Force Five that Uma Therman's character talked about in Pulp Fiction. That doesn't give a hell of a lot of backstory, but it's some.

That always stuck out to me too! Soldier is one of those movies that you probably would never set out to watch, but if you catch it on TV at 1 o'clock in the morning, you'll probably be up until 3 to see all of it. Even if you've seen it a dozen times in exactly that situation before. Or that's how I always watch it,…

I also would have accepted "because they're delicious."

"If a behavior can be observed in very young infants, this implies that it may be innate since infants have had very little time to learn through experience."

My physical books never run out of power or need to be charged. Power outages are not a problem, because I have candle technology. If I get one wet, it might swell, but it'll dry out and still work just as well. Once I own that book, neither Amazon nor any other distributor can just reach in and take it away or edit…

And what does it say that some of the most beloved fantastical escapes nowadays are post-apocalyptic hellscapes?

Agreed. No one can be better than Stormare in any roll. I'd watch him play Annie. Musical and all.

I can't speak for anyone else, but it seems to me that her only setting is "cold." It works okay for the badass stuff, but doesn't really work with any other aspect of her character. Doesn't really allow for there to be any other aspect, really.

Most "over reliance on technology" stories don't say that the tech isn't great, just that we, well, over-rely on it. And that's absolutely true. Technology is wonderful, but think about how screwed we'd be if, for some reason, it was taken from us. Say, catastrophic destruction of the power grid. Whatever the means by…

Watching older movies, particularly westerns, I've come to the conclusion that actors of old had tremendously sweaty necks. Heston more than most.

I just recorded this guy's talk on BookTV last night, but I haven't watched it yet. I'm gonna get angry, aren't I?

I'm glad I'm not the only one who always thinks that. I was starting to think the facial recognition software in my brain was malfunctioning.

"... Forster based the Malabar Caves on the Balabar Caves..."

Space jiu-jitsu, of course. Think some alien freakazoid wants a wicked wrist lock from some hairless ape while in the weightlessness of space? I think not!

Of the two separate entities that are Giorgio Tsoukalos and Giorgio Tsoukalos's hair, the hair is clearly the idea man.