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http://www.theimaginationage.net/2011/12/rare-1979-interview-with-philip-k-dick.html

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Rudy Rucker surfaces this amazing interview by Science Fiction author Charles Platt with The Original Philip Kindred Dick. Certainly ( Read more... )

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I just watched Defendor, a 2009 Canadian superhero film written and directed by Peter Stebbings, and starring Woody Harrelson, Kat Dennings, Elias Koteas and Sandra Oh. The film tells the story of a mentally-challenged man -- one would hesitate to call him "mentally ill"; "intellectually challenged is more accurate -- who adopts the persona of a ( Read more... )

I just broke out my Meat Loaf CDs and put Bat Out of Hell II on my CD player. I love Meat Loaf -- guy's the Pavarotti of the rock world, with Robert E Howard's Solomon Kane and Conan the Barbarian thrown in for good measure. If I ever were to get married, I'd include Meat Loaf's best in the music for it and the reception afterward. He's a ( Read more... )

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Russian-born animator Ladislas Starevich's 1922 stop-motion animated film, originally entitled Les Grenouilles qui demandent un roi (Frogland), based on Aesop's tale, "The Frogs Who Desired a King." Puppet animation by Ladislaw ( Read more... )