So this is how the message goes. First, must find a monk suffering from syphilitic insanity and cure him with a broom stick. Second, you must gather not one but three individually colored keys with images of Incas engaged in acts of ritual sacrifice emblazoned upon them. Strangely, each act of sacrifice will involve a long rod with a sheaf of corn ( Read more... )

ask_tiresias picks his top ten video games and I return the favor ( Read more... )

Right. Let me take a moment to kick Roland Emmerich in the junk for producing such a sorry lackluster bag of haggis as The Day After Tomorrow. For starters, if you ponder the opening sequence effects of the Ross ice shelf cutting loose, pay attention to the geometry. What you're seeing is physically impossible. Hell, take a look at the floating ( Read more... )

Once in a while, I find a new author who brings to me the joyous musings of the freshly minted word. This is not one of those cases. Let me be honest here, Melissa Scott seems to have her muse going full speed, and is taking the windburn well - but, her muse appears to be William Gibson, an author I love, and is so damn close to ripping him off ( Read more... )