2001 (1968), Stanley Kubrick. August 10th, 10pm. View count: I think this is the fourth viewing for me. Maybe the fifth.

Friday morning I was up at 5am, but I fucking stayed up through 2001. By the time it got to the analog psychedelia I'd been woken up by the rest of it, so even that pretty undeniably draggy section of the film DID NOT BEST ME ( Read more... )

[Update: askmefi got it in like four seconds. Ordering now ( Read more... )

Here's a fun post about bats in speculative evolution contexts.
Also note that Mr. Tetrapod Zoology is going to write a post on war rhinos! Hoorah!

Another supercool Darmok post by the Tensor ( Read more... )

If that's really how you pronounce it, then how come PKD shortened it to 'phoce' instead of 'phoke'? Maybe that's how it's said, regardless.
(PDF here, for those who feel like reading.)