Fallout 3 is a helluva drug.

Pretty much. I think some one or other has been trying to make "A Princess of Mars" into a film for as long as film has existed, but there was just no way to realize the world before CGI. I still don't think that justifies spending $200 million on it - it's just not a property with the kind of cultural cachet that…

Convoluted worldbuilding? I thought it was pretty straight-forward. Two red cities at war, each manipulated by the whites, greens at the edges, human comes along and upsets the apple cart. They barely touched upon the seven rays, or the air cleansing machine, and we never saw what actually exists at the end of the…

17.

It was a lot better than the books. Book-Carter is a total ass. Movie-Carter is actually likable (eventually).

It was a perfectly excellent Ray Harryhausen film made in a post-Spielberg/Lucas age. A solid B+, because it did exactly what it was designed to do: tell a fun, swashbuckling action adventure story.

Since 1993.

As opposed to what? Rocks? Paper clips? Rubber bands? Boomerangs? Heat vision? Giant green boxing gloves? Help me out here, I need some context.

Yeah, I like this art a lot. Nice page layouts, too.

I listened to the MR James podcast for a while and mostly enjoyed it, but found that the length of the episodes was getting to be too much for me. I like a 1/2 hour show.

The HP Lovercraft Literary Podcast tackled William Hope Hodgson's story, "The Derelict" this weekend. I'm very glad that the weather has turned and I can go back to evening walks while listening to this podcast, because listening to a scary story while walking through a darkened neighborhood is great fun.

It is an idyllic place, isn't it? I think it makes a nice contrast to the rest of the story, and it really makes "The Scouring of the Shire" meaningful as well (to the point that I have a friend who still hasn't seen Return of the King because it wasn't included).

There's a line during Frodo's move about how excited everyone is about stopping for a beer that I totally didn't get as a child but really resonated as an adult who loves beer. There's lots and lots of that stuff in that book. So much richer and rewarding as an adult.

Things Fall Apart is one of my all time favorite novels. Yet I never realized it was part of a trilogy.

Very in keeping with the actual sagas, too.

See you there!

Yeah, I read that line and all I could think was "Oh boy."

Machen just doesn't do it for me. Too Victorian, I think. The whole "fear of Nature" thing and weird atavistic reptile people living under mounds doesn't work for me the way, say, the Whately boys or the Mi-Go do.

Stupid Walt Whitman! Leaves of Grass, my ass!

That's some seriously good stuff.