So you can figure out ahead of time if you are going to like something without any input from anyone who has seen it previously? Interesting claim.

Aww, how adorably cynical! I'm sure you're quite rational and trust no one else in determining your entirely independently derived tastes. YES, I AM SHEEPLE AND BOW TO THE WISDOM OF THE WEB! (It has nothing at all to do with knowledge of Annalee and how her tastes and mine have overlapped in the past.)

There's a museum of Art Deco lighting out on the Olympic peninsula in Washington - it's up near Fort Worden state park (where much of "An Officer and a Gentleman" was filmed). They have a whole lot of fabulous light fixtures.

Interesting! I am now intruiged where before I was not!

Go Curiosity go!

I am just here to give you props for including Liquid Sky. It was fucked up and awesome.

Sort of like in Left4Dead, when one of the opposing players becomes the Hulk

Yeah - I'd add that and drop some of the stuff that's less "alternate history" and more "alternate laws of physics"

THIS IS GONNA BE LIKE THE CITIZEN KANE OF CHEEZEY VIRGINITY-RELATED COMEDY HORROR, ISN'T IT!

Great write-up. I love it when you bring the hardcore litnerd stuff.

Old enough that I've been on the Internet before there was a ".com" (everyone used hosts files - really!)

You are correct - I'm being glib in the service of humor. I do think there's a lot of inherent western superiority in the framing of the two subjects. Perhaps less so now than 30 years ago, I expect.

LOBSTER STICK TO MAGNET!!!

Yay Carl Brandon Society!

I have seen an episode or two of the racist batman serial! It is remarkably racist. Of course, this is the time in our nation's history where (according to my father, who was a teenager during WWII) the words "Nip" and "Jap" were pretty much universally paired with "dirty" or "filthy" or some other similarly…

I hadn't tracked who has been writing Cap, so when I first read "Brubaker cameo" I thought it was some weird reference to a 1980 Robert Redford movie...

It does follow the general rule of QUESTIONS IN HEADLINES: the answer is almost always "no".

"Sociology" is the study of "us." "Anthropology" is the study of "them."

Well, they killed what I have found to be the only really interesting character last week, so I think I'm going to punt this.

WHO NITPICKS THE NITPICKERS! :)