I knew a guy who did White Shark research in northern California. They used a 18 foot rescue boat with marks painted on the side to measure sharks when they’d find one chilling on the surface. Everybody spent the whole field season hoping for the opportunity to use the quote (white sharks bigger than that are very…

I did. I was wrapped up in bandages due to poison ivy and kept trying to convince people it was shark bites.

I did. I was wrapped up in bandages due to poison ivy and kept trying to convince people it was shark bites.

I did. I was wrapped up in bandages due to poison ivy and kept trying to convince people it was shark bites.

It’s the isolation. Nobody is running away and nobody is coming to help. And you’re stuck in warren of utilitarian shacks, mostly without windows, breathing the farts of a bunch of guys you’ve hated since Summer ended. The first bit of the movie really underscores that there’s plenty of tension before the monster…

ALL THAT WORK FOR NOTHING!  NOTHING!!!

Still plenty of screeching tires, maybe more.

Silva’s orthodontist. 

Not to mention that Musk has a pretty big megaphone and accusing someone of CHILD MOLESTATION is pretty serious. Musk went way over the line on that one. He accused a rescue diver of one of the most heinous crimes imaginable with no evidence using the power of his million-follower twitter account. Here’s hoping he’s…

Gee, quashing unionization at Tesla and calling a guy who risks his life a child molester because the guy had the audacity to suggest that idiotic submarine wasn’t workable aren’t sufficient reasons to think Musk is a jackass?

We’ve tried non-WASP presidents like twice, right?

Clair Standish becomes Harlequin and murders Bender for creeping on her, then hops realities and murders Farmer Ted.  What else was Molly Ringwald in and who can we have her bump off? 

I suspect a simulated perfect blissful life would be a living hell for a guy who “makes his own stuff”. Rick lives for challenges as a way of propping up his ego. 

Interesting, I hadn’t heard the “parental insanity” bit before. As you say, that provides a lot of insight into the reoccurring doomed protagonists. It also makes the occasions where the protagonist embraces their fate, as in “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” deeper. 

Care to elaborate? Seriously, that’s too good of an idea to not flesh out.

Don’t forget the surfing!  

Well, other people’s genetic makeup.

The man hated inbreeding AND outbreeding. Basically, if you’re not a sufficiently genetically diverse but still WASP upper-middle class New Englander, you’re suspect.  Fun aside: In graduate school our biology department softball team was called “Hybrid Vigor” until they lost several games and changed it to “Inbreeding…

This is why I though Simon Pegg’s “A Fantastic Fear of Everything” was a Lovecraft biography.  The man was afraid of angles. 

Jeff Goldblum IS.