Yeah. I read most of the Books of Blood anthology while high on painkillers after having my wisdom teeth out. I had remarkably disturbing dreams.

Oh fuck yeah - I read "The Boogeyman" when I was a kid and slept with the light on. Because, you see, my closet door didn't close all the way.

Back in the old days, we used to have phone books in offices and homes! It's true, kids! Dating from a time when phones had cords!

Philip K Dick was right. "The empire never ended"

Starship Trooper by Yes (off of "The Yes Album"). I sort of thing there must be *something* appropriate in ELP's discography but I can't think of what offhand. Same with Hawkwind.

I love that The Carpenters covered "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Crafts", because that kind of a surreal juxtaposition.

That's a lot more complex stuff than I expected - way more 'building blocks of life' type stuff, too.

And you borrowed books from them back in the day and still have overdue fines, don't be too surprised if DECADES LATER they find you and hit you up to pay the fines.

Besides the money from the actual arms deal, there were 2 big duffel bags of cash in the storage unit that both appeared to be full of wads of $100's. If each wad is about $10K (looks about right), then there's a couple of million in cash they have as working funds, now. It's not the "oh, yeah, I bought the whole…

The Crossbow Project, obviously.

I came here to read what all the examples up til the last was, because I knew Jarts would be the most dangerous.

Iiiiinteresting. I am tentatively looking forward to this.

It is known!

Thomas Dolby has a song, Toad Lickers

I didn't realize someone had adapted it. Man, what a fucked up story.

Not really subversive. Just "typical humor" by the racist then-present-day standards, and now it's just echos of a time when people happily told jokes that I'm embarrassed to still know.

Fascinating! I'll have to check that article out.

I love how accurate and accessible sonar is getting. Hell yeah.

India has already got a Mars orbiter - give them a few more years and they'll have their own soup-to-nuts manned space program and then they can rent time out to folks who want to film song and dance numbers in the Indian vomit comet. (Oh my god, this could be awesome! I can easily imagine a song about love raising…

As a Boston-area nerd, born and raised, I am delighted by the Boston map. It even lists the square closest to my house!