Agreed - I've seen the film but not the play, but the "staginess" of the theatrical script hadn't been planed away in the screenplay.

Well, it was much shorter than his later "Karla" books, which were such a chore that I moved on from him as a writer.

BOMB THE RUSSIANS! BOMB THE RUSSIANS! BOMB THE RUSSIANS! (We don't have to take their shit!) BOMB THE RUSSIANS! BOMB THE RUSSIANS! BOMB THE RUSSIANS! (We'll be better off for it!)

Science fiction is second-rate literature, TV is second-rate visual art. Draw your own conclusions.

I don't think conservatives and Southerners are stupid. I think they are malevolent and morally repellent.

So long as they include Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping," I'll be happy.

Holy Shit!
V is still on?

More like grandpa TV. They watch this shit for years in lieu of having a social life, then arrive at 70 with nothing approaching sanity remaining in their skulls.

I've heard the word before - what does it mean? Pimp or Pedophile? Or something completely different?

My understanding is that Roddenberry screwed everything he touched (Nichelle Nichols and Grace Lee Whitney inclusive). Nice work if you can get it.

Did you know Peter Wyngarde was in Lunghua prison (sp) with JG Ballard? I just read that this week and it blew my fuckin' mind.

wouldn't they be sent to Mauthausen? It's closer.

I sorta see the OP's point-but if anything Austria should be bigger, and encompass the Catholic parts of Germany and Switzerland.

How can you understate the point? "Nazis are bad, m'kay?"

If Barney's father was Jonathan Frakes, wouldn't he have been born with a heavy beard? (I sense the birth of a new Chuck Norris-esque meme)

Superstar Galactic President McAwesomeville is a killing word.

Don't Leave the Light On Baby was probably my favorite song on "Fold…"

Well, there a lot of people coming on here like they're part of the great unwashed when they're actually merely the subset of the middle class that likes to pretend they're tough guys. What's more pretentious: Belle & Sebastian's genuinely middlebrow sensibilities or some office-park denizen pretending he's some sort…

Well, I can see that about "a space boy dream." Pitchfork was around in 1998? Who gave a shit? It was still strictly print magazines then and I bought all my albums on cassette (strictly speaking, Space Boy Dream makes more sense as the end of side A/beginning of side B palate-cleanser - it wasn't "the middle"). That…

It's about half a good album. You didn't like "the Wrong Girl?"