That’s right where my mind goes anytime someone mentions Meatloaf. If I met him, I don’t think I could call him “Meat,” because his name is Robert Paulson. His name is Robert Paulson.

Sated, it reentered the waiting singularity.

“There’s a subsection of the population that is inclined to doubt people speaking for the government, or professors with white hair, medical school faculty [or] people who claim to know something.”

I have to agree. It’s just bad storytelling, and a tipoff that the writer doesn’t know how to write decent exposition. If you have to try and hook the audience by showing the end first, it means you know the beginning is exposition-heavy and boring, and have to try and get some excitement going at the outset.

Awesome! I may or may not be (and, in fact, am) watching it right now with a big dumb grin on my face. I also might or might not (and, in fact, do) still remember the vast majority of the dialogue. If you can call it that. It’s so painfully, beautifully bad.

Was it Dragonstrike?

“Grabbin’ some kills.” - Louis

Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman talks a lot about the battle of Crecy, too. The book isn't focused on the battle, but one of the main characters was a French knight who fought in it (and has the arrow scars to prove it), and it figures into his story pretty heavily. It's a pretty good book, and doesn't…

We celebrate the Magna Carta, and yet its companion piece the Charter of the Forest languishes in obscurity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_o…

Claws will go through the mail. Better go full-plate for this one.

I think that's pretty standard for Freddy fans. You have the original, then for some reason the filmmakers just skipped right to 3: dream warriors. There are tales of a lost, second movie, but it has been lost to the ages.

Suddenly mere human social anxiety seems desirable. Do they even make imodium for scorpions?

I see what you did there. But just bearly.

Solar Babies used to be unmentionable to Jason Patrick, but I bet he'd come around on a sequel these days. Don't think they'll be rebooting Speed 2 anytime soon.

Insects are a good, sustainable, and eco-friendly protein source, and a lot of the non-western world eats them regularly. Sooner or later it will have to make inroads into the west too if we want to sustain a growing population that also wants creature-based protein. Insect is also cheap and plentiful. I, for one,…

Or a descrambler, at any rate.

Yeah, using Bradbury's (later in life) words to say what the book was really about is kind of BS. Granted, the stuff he says is totally in there, but to say it's not about censorship is just trying to be iconoclastic and edgy.

You have to willfully look past the fascism to not see it. The book may not be about fascism but it's certainly an endorsement of it. Frankly, I'm surprised none of the mouthpieces for the military-industrial complex we have in congress has tried to have the Starship Troopers system implemented in America. That'd sure…

MinutePhysics has a good (and short) video on the history of this. I recommend it for anyone who wants a primer on "Ye Olde," but only has a minute and half to learn it.

Think of how much harder it would be, and how many more snubs it would lead to, making it one category instead of two. There'd be a lot of Sophie's Choices happening. Especially if an excellent movie has perfect male and female leads.