Of course. It's just that I spend most of my time among people who believe in science, at least for that. And many creationists don't necessarily believe (or *admit to outsiders* that they believe) there was a guy and a boat. And I'm still boggled that they were working in a technical field for a Fortune 100…

I have encountered people who think that there really was a guy named Noah and a boat and a flood. These people were employed by a mainstream company as tech workers and lived in a medium-sized metropolitan area, so it's not like they were living in a shack in backwoods wherever. Boggles my mind, personally.

He's working on a musical about the American internment camps for the Japenese, "Allegiance".

How have I never heard of this before?

Be funny. Not "LAUGHING TO HIDE MY PAIN OF UGLY" but plain old funny. And even more importantly, be kind. Both of those will go further than beauty. (I'm saying this as someone who is several negative std deviations off from societal norms for "average", not even close to "beautiful".)

Any idea who played the voice on the phone? It sounded familiar but I couldn't place it.

God, I'm such an Ellen McLain fangirl. I quite literally squeed out loud in "Pacific Rim" when they had her computer voice in the Jaeger.

Most recently, I saw the Spanish (Catalan?) film "Los Ultimos Dias" (the title translates as "The Last Days"). The filmmakers presumably thought the big SF twist was the really severe contagious agoraphobia. Personally, I thought it was the idea that with the cell networks down, a GPS could somehow work deep…

Have you read A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson?

No they shouldn't be named and fuck the fools at the weather channel for this.

Season 1 was a lot of fun. Part of season 2 was okay, but man it just went off the rails after that. Hopefully Tim Kring will bring the early awesome.

He's got a great new movie that's getting some festival play, now. Coherence

SEXY SEXY ROCKET DIAGRAMS. MMMMM HEAVY LIFT VEHICLES FTW.

I assumed the book was some kind of contractual obligation and so Harris is mostly fucking with us and also trying to write an unfilmable book.

It looks like the credits are on youtube:

The classic Boris Karloff version of the movie lists the author of the original source material as "Mrs. Percy B. Shelley".

Another recorded version here on soundcloud

It's such a great aesthetic.

I think it's "Once Bitten" that did give us Lauren Hutton in a fetching black tie ensemble. So there's that.

Real-life film noire fabulousness!