While Cordy has plenty of stuff that smacks of sexism (and occasional homophobia) he's just got such a gonzo imagination.

II'm re-read her stuff every so often, and I find most of her work from that time holds up so well. The Dispossesed awakened so many parts of my mind, and its still one of my favorite books ever. While she can get lost in her amazing travlogues, when she writes about characters no one can weave a spell like she does.

Residents of a station could use the planet as a shield, staying in a Langrange point. (Though I don't have the technical skills to say how far away that would be. It might be we'll past the shadow of the planet.)

I've always wanted to reboot the old Gerry Anderson Show Captain Scarlet. through some sort of hand-waving his puppet would get blown up or shot, then be healthy an hour later. The physics are muddled, but the idea of a person coming back as a copy of a copy atop copy of himself I found fascinating.

I'd bring rocket technology to the 1960s so we could go to the moon. We'd have space colonies by now.

Yet another item the government has banned because a child might get hurt. Thank god there's no way a child could misuse a gun. Then they might ban my precious Mr. Bangy.

It's taken half of our sun's lifetime to generate us, and we're just an eyeblink in time. I do think it's possible that we could be the first intelligent life in our area, but time is so massive, if it is us, then intelligence is vanishingly rare and precious. Still, let's say we develop ships that move nearly as fast…

I heard him speak in the early 80s when I was attending San Francisco State. That day changed my life. He exhorted us to use the library as our university, to open books in the middle and read our way out. He told us to fill each day with as much wonder as we could hold so that we could go to bed at night knowing we…

Anything where eight-year-olds act as if they have to use diapers to keep from pooping themselves, or any other rectal bodily function from any character. That sort of gold should be saved for the paying audience.

There's one at the exploratorium in San Francisco. The table is a pendulum that swings on one axis, and the pen-pendulum (The pen-ultimate?) swings on two axes. You can make you own art if you don't mind standing in line.

Hmm, I thought Captain Blicero launched Gottfried into space...

One of my favorite things: the eyes of the fighter pilot tasked with diverting Hulk. Throughout the film I really had a sense that everyone, not matter how small the role, backstory, had parents who loved them, had friends soemwhere who would miss them. Each shield v shield death was felt. The destruction of the…

the hatter's watch no longer tells time, despite being filled with the very best butter.

I have to laugh at the silly ideas you put forward of the future. Everyone knows In the future Mars will be colonized by the hyper intelligent offspring of our sneakers, and we will finally realize we are the four-dimensional extrusions of fourteen-dimensional beings playing games. The singularity? Genetic…

They were called The Scooby Gang, anyway.

I think the people in the masks were "The Doctors," A takeoff of The Gentlemen in Hush.

The slut & the athlete were Buffy & angel, minus their powers, the scholar was Giles, the clown was Xander & the virgin was willow.

Good point. They must have a supply of fresh blood to pour into the stone. Marty's was red already.

Marty was the only one looking at the film, and realizing that they were puppets. Does this make Joss & Drew the two controllers?

The way I mapped it was: whore-Buffy ( minus any powers), Athlete-Angel (ditto), scholar-Giles, clown-Xander, Virgin-Willow. And of course the demons win. In the past the old gods must have been beaten by humans. I could certainly imagine that the other monster teams who were beaten had the best of humanity ready to…