Outstanding!

That's bad, but I still think this graph wins the "most misleading graphic ever" award:

I saw the movie pretty much unspoiled - I was vaguely aware that there was some "EVERYONE IS PRETENDING YOU DON'T HAVE KIDS" going on, but the sudden vacuuming was a big bout of "WAIT WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT"

Moore is such a good actress, and Woodard is, too. The two of them could read a grocery list and make it compelling drama.

Oh man, that was so close to awesome. Everyone I've talked to about it agrees that the reveal after that was kind of disappointing. I hadn't realized I wanted that from that character until I thought I had it and then didn't.

Alcohol abuse would seem an obvious response forAmerican men who made it through the war. They went off and got PTSD (or, as they termed it then, "shell shock") and came back to a place where the civilian population was unaware of the scope of the brutality. Of *course* they self-medicated themselves to hell and…

Yeah... I would guess that this is more a case of "things that make you sleepy in the daytime (apnea, bad sleep habits, young kids squawling all nite) are more likely to impact your mortality" than "OMG THE NAP WILL KILL YOU."

Amazing. In the US, so much of the understanding of the impact of WWII on infrastructure is based on snippets of soundstages and carefully edited photographs. The sheer breadth of the destruction is mind boggling.

I thought some of the early DEW (Distant Early Warning) arctic stations also included acoustic gear, but a quick googling isn't finding any support for that.

Cool! I didn't know that.

the barge didn't move under the HGE - they sank the barge, brought the HGE over it, then transferred the capture vehicle.

I can see that. On the one hand, it has one of the best opening credits in all of film - all the worldbuilding, right there in a couple of minutes. On the other hand, it has possibly the worst use of "hallelujah" in a film - it makes me wince just thinking about it. And I don't know if it's the actor's skill level…

Dammit - I have an appointment from 530 to 630pm, but I hope to make it over to the bookstore for the talk.

How come they cast a bunch of white people?

I DON'T KNOW WHAT 'CAT' MEANS WE DIDN'T COVER THIS IN DRIVER'S ED.

Oh man, have you seen the whole drag battle? It's amazing.

Does the 1980's Marvel team-up from (I think) the first Assistant Editor's Month, where Spidey's Aunt May takes little Franklin Richards to the circus, and GALACTUS attacks. He is subdued by use of TOTALLY-NOT-HOSTESS unnamed baked goods count as a crossover? (There was a series of Hostess ads featuring villains…

My library had mistakenly shelved a hard-science pop-science book, "In Quest of Quasars" (http://www.amazon.com/In-Quest-Quasa…) with the science fiction in the kid's section. I found it when I was, like, 11 or so, and READ THE EVERLOVING HELL OUT OF IT REPEATEDLY. It helped shift my "general sf geekery" interest…

Also, they could totally put a little shrub in the right place in that forest to represent the mini-Minnesota in the mini-Minnesota.

YO DAWG! I HEARD YOU LIKED MINNESOTA, SO I GAVE YOU A MINNESOTA IN YOUR MINNESOTA SO YOU CAN BE IN MINNESOTA WITHIN MINNESOTA WHEN YOU'RE IN MINNESOTA INSIDE MINNESOTA.