Neither. As Isaac Asimov said, I have no problem agreeing that there are hundreds, even thousands, of unidentified flying objects. My problem is with the people determined to identify them all as extraterrestrial. However, I must add that I have no difficulty imagining a God so lavishly creative that he has multiple peoples. Or planets. Or ( Read more... )

"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions." Always pissed me off when anyone, especially my mother, said this. As though our intention weren't the only thing that really matters.

If a politician or other celebrity trades on his/her kids or spouse or house, then, yeah, they have traded off their privacy for some present promotion. And when I say "trades," I mean willfully pushes kid/spouse/possslq into the public view as an accessory to his/her the non-celebs are fair game.

Example: George W.'s and Obama's girls made brief ( Read more... )

No competition. Final Fantasy III, by SquareSoft for SNES. It is the only video game in which I consistently kicked butt.

First movie that totally knocked me out was Journey to the Center of the Earth with James Mason and Pat Boone. I first saw the pic because I was sorta hot for Boone (I know, I know! I was young and goofy).

What absolutely stunned me was the cavern with all the crystalline stuff. I had never seen anything so breathtakingly beautiful.

Came back to ( Read more... )

Holy cats, yes, I'm well-known notorious for this stuff. My own "Mondegreens" are extensive.

The earliest I remember is  from When You Wish Upon a Star:

"Like a boat out of the blue." which I connected with a visual of a ship emerging from fog, its low, mournful horn sounding to signal that the ship is there to help me..

And of course it's a bolt ( Read more... )