Our porch has been getting rather sticky from the droppings of the tree that hangs over it, to the point where we wonder why anyone would have built a porch under such a tree in the first place.  Well, it appears that the tree has dutch elm disease, and the little white bugs floating everywhere outside are the carriers.  And there are a lot of ( Read more... )

 Okay there's like, almost 200 episodes of MST.  They are each an hour and 40 minutes long.  Excluding KTMA and Season One I have watched all of them at least once.  I like watching them while I do my art stuff, like when I'm drawing Housepets.  And yet, when I look through them all, I suddenly feel like I just watched them and I need to find one ( Read more... )

UP didn't have a short in front of it! 

Out of all the episodes, the only one I have not yet finished due to the reason that it is physically painful to watch is Alien from LA (Episode 516).  Many of the episodes and powerfully dull and mentally grinding, but in this one, the main character, played by Kathy Ireland, has this has a horribly, horribly shrill voice.  Guh.

So, recently I watched Death Note.  This is one of those series that is like crack, you pick it up and are completely unable to put it down until you're done.

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Okay, in Alabama during the summer, apparently birds chirp at night.  This makes it feel like it's morning and screws with my internal clock

I find this odd.

When I was a kid, I was very much into D&D despite the fact that I never played it, and I loved fantasy to death, despite the fact that I rarely read it.  The first real fantasy book I read was The Mis-Enchanted Sword by Lawrence Watt-Evans, and despite its faults I still consider it to be one of my most favorite books ( Read more... )

You know, it really is no wonder why old bad sci-fi gave it a bad name.  But it tends to be like that with a lot of genre stuff, and it's why genres in general have a bad name among 'mainstream' lit: the stuff sells often more because it adheres to the genre ideal than if it has good story quality to it.

For instance, in the old B-Movie The Brain ( Read more... )

From like a year ago, but I thought it looked interesting anyway ( Read more... )

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