That experience, in that setting, is what the word “panic” derives from. Almost as eerie as the experience itself, it the knowledge that you’re sharing an experience that’s been freaking people out for thousands of years, and really isn’t much better understood today.

Mmmmm... claws...

When I first saw them on the web years ago, I had no idea they could swim freely. They really do look like some sort of genetic engineering seafood experiment.

Quite possible. If not a direct lineage, then at least a similar lifestyle.

How do they feel about Kinja?

I wonder if that “traveling woman” was some kind of sideshow-type performer herself, or just the sort of person who got her kicks by “suggesting” such things and then moving on...

I think there’s some real potential in a story that starts out framing everything in terms of the idealistic, visionary architect creating a utopia, triumphing over overwhelming odds, and plays out straight-faced as you see all the folks whose ways-of-life are crushed by that triumph.

No mention of the great tagline?

I remember hearing that the original Robocop was in the works, and somehow assuming from the title (and knowing nothing about Verhoven at the time) that it would be geared toward kids. When my friends and I later heard that it was going thorough reedits to get an “R” rating, we were a bit puzzled... After seeing the…

I think Achilles and Hercules were considered to have been deified after their deaths, and over time had cults associated with him, so I think they’d count as gods in spite of not being inherently divine in the sense Zeus or Mercury were. Atlas was technically a Titan, but I think those still count as divine beings,…

That’s probably the one I’m recalling — An S-3 rings a clearer bell than the A-6 I previously posted. I seem to recall it as happening at Willow Grove NAS in Pennsylvania, which is closer to me, but that’s probably a complete confabulation, based on my having been to an airshow there as a kid where I got to sit in a…

There’s a certain romance to the idea of a director who’s so consumed with the impulse to create that he torments his actors and risks life and limb for the sake of art.

I’m pleasantly surprised that no head injuries are mentioned -- I guess the helmet did its job. There was a kid at an airshow in my area many, many years ago who fatally ejected himself from an A-6 that they were letting kids sit in, Milhouse-style. I believe he went through the canopy too, though I’m not clear on the…

We’ve had no idea how the Oscar-winning director was going to take the beloved musical, which is very light on narrative and features stars humans dressed as cats, and turn it into a serious motion picture.

The time-flow aspects of all that run into some self-contradictory, “twin paradox” issues, though.

And characterizing the sacrifice as being done for “his own glory” is a bit much. I think he clearly feels he has no alternative. He’s hardly embellishing his reputation, it’s that in the “win or die” game of thrones, he’s already wagered everything.

He was just hanging around that old psychiatrist’s office that everyone says is haunted...

Are your dogs voiced by various random celebrities?

I doubt they really strategized this, but it made sense to get the public buzzing about the production to preempt any lawsuits. So not viral marketing, but legal defense.

I was thinking breadfast cereal, but we can make a gentleman’s wager as to which comes out first.