The answer to yesterday's post is ( Read more... )

Quick! Guess who this is without Googling!

"He claimed (and still claims) to be a Martian who lived with dinosaurs in a past life, and he never appears in public without sunglasses."

It certainly makes me way more interested in finding a biography or documentary of him.

During the conversation about "Mary Sue" characters, something occurred to me: the problem with "Mary Sue" characters is not that they are competent, or even that they aren't incompetent. It's that the authors defined their characters in terms of competency. They asked "What can this character do?" instead of "Who is this character?" You see the ( Read more... )

One thing I forgot to mention about that movie: at one point, Bogart says "Doctor WHO's residence?" I realy wish I could get a clip of that.

Is there any Hollywood movie about the American Civil War that portrays the South as the bad guys?

I just recently watched three silent-era films (The General, The Coward, and Grandma's Boy) that told Civil War stories with the South as the good guys. And of course, there's also Gone with the Wind. And the more recently-made Civil War films I ( Read more... )

Today is Lewis Carroll's birthday, and thus Rabbit Hole Day. And again, I didn't participate, although I was thinking about it several days ago. I just didn't have anything I thought would be good this year.

But I decided I'd at least note that today *is* his birthday.

Edit: Except that it isn't, because I'm a day behind. I thought today was ( Read more... )

I just found out that the original "Mouth" of Mouth & MacNeal died six years ago. Of course, I think I'm the only person in the United States, perhaps all of North America, who remembers "How Do You Do", so that explains why I didn't hear a news report of his death. Not that I knew much about him or his duo; I had no idea until I randomly looked ( Read more... )

Here's a movie with Esperanto in it that I never expected to have Esperanto in it: The Road to Singapore, starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. I only caught the last 30-40 minutes, so I'm not sure what Singapore had to do with the story, since they were on a fictional South Pacific island. Apparently, Hollywood in the '30s and '40s used Esperanto ( Read more... )

For years, I've been trying to remember the name of some crappy horror movie I saw maybe 20 years ago. I thought it had the word "Meat" or "Hamburger" in the title, and I know when I first saw it, I looked it up in one of the Psychotronic guides before watching it ( Read more... )

Hey, I'm still obsessing over the chain from the "Ghostbusters" theme song to "I Want a New Drug" to "Pop Muzik"! I meant to comment on this quote from the Wikipedia entry:

According to Lewis, he wrote the song in only a few minutes. "I just woke up one morning after a long party and just wrote NEW DRUG.
What kind of music were they playing at ( Read more... )