Sometimes the brain produces a phrase or idea that is just wrong.

Example from past works:

Pol Pot Pie.

Golden Age Science Fiction has not, in far too many cases, aged well. I can suspend my disbelief when it comes to the inability of authors to predict things like cell phones or portable computers. Some of the economic, racial, gender and social assumptions being made, though, really speak to a group of minds firmly rooted in the 1930s. Were the ( Read more... )

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Tag me with "icons" in the replies and I will choose some of your icons to tell us about. Reply in your journal!! Or don't. No skin off my back.

Chosen by my long-time pal lotusice:

1. Electrified fence

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So, I sold my film cameras. I vowed not to do so until a decent simulation of TMax-3200 came along.

( And here it is. )

Huh?

I was recently reading the liner notes for the new remaster of The Beatles' Revolver and was reminded of a still-startling fact.

Revolver was recorded and released eight months after Rubber Soul. Eight months. Rubber Soul was a stylistic and songwriting breakthrough for the band, which is really easy to forget. Then to make the ( Read more... )

If I don't laugh I'll either cry or start punching people in the face.

I look like an idiot when I cry, and more people can beat me up than I can beat up.

Laughter it is.

What the hell is wrong with these idiots? The planet is an incredibly complex system, resilient but able to be damaged. We're seeing that as the average global temperature slowly inches up the mercury. So, given just how well such a simple environmental factor as CO2 could produce a major unintended side effect, what possible harm do you think ( Read more... )

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Robert Zemeckis has never been the shining light of cinematic achievement. You knew starting out he wasn't going to be the second coming of Orson Welles or Akira Kurasawa. It seemed possible, though, that he might make a career of a string of entertaining, workmanlike releases, hitting his mark with every other one. Indeed it kind of looked that ( Read more... )