<![CDATA[Comments from Freddie Freelance]]> <![CDATA[Comments from Freddie Freelance]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on This Week's TV: Giant Rats, Alien Sex, And Stuart Gordon's Ultimate Horror]]> The best reason I know to watch Robocop 2 is to watch my Daughter's Ex get torn in half. If he gets torn in half on "Fear Itself" I'll be watching that, too.

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on What's the Singular of "Fish"?]]> Add killer Red Tide algal blooms fed by fertilizer runoff, swarms of killer Jelly Fish whose natural enemies have been overfished, Giant Squid coming up to the Continental Shelf, and a swirl of plastic & garbage larger than the Continental United States in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Worried yet?

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Leon Theremin: Rocker, Lover, KGB Agent]]> @Lizzie24601: As a lover of both the Theremin & Kazoo I'd love to see that skit, and I bet the flailing Death Throes added to the comedy of the performance.

In the original recording of "Good Vibrations" the Theremin sound was performed by Paul Tanner on his Electro-Theremin or Tannerin, which does use a slide for pitch control & a knob for volume, and a copy of the original Tannerin is currently used by Brian Wilson in concert, but Wilson actually used an ondes Martenot, another Theremin-sounding musical instrument, for concerts & TV appearances from the '60s to '90s.

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Moon Party with Major Matt Mason and Buddies, 1968]]> @Zantor: Nice work if you can get it!

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Moon Party with Major Matt Mason and Buddies, 1968]]> I used to dream in Major Matt Mason commercials. I had Matt, Sgt. Storm and Callisto, but what I really Drooled for was the Space Crawler:

[www.wildtoys.com]

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on The Creature From The Black Lagoon Reemerges Gill By Gill]]> I don't understand, did they wait for Ben Chapman to die before doing this?

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on 21 Ways To Eradicate Campiness From Science Fiction]]> Re: Go-Go Boots, you can't beat Raquel Welch doing the SciFo Go-Go Girl thing:

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Clubs of the Future with Mick Jagger, Jerry Hall, and Crazy Outfits!]]> @Cantonkid: Or Geoff Murphy's previous directing outing, also starring Emilio Estavez: Young Guns II.

This could've been such a great movie, being based on Robert Sheckley's novel Immortality, Inc, where disembodied Assassins chase the hero into Zombie haunted sewers and billionaires attempt suicide by hiring Man Hunters to chase them down.

O yeah, and the ending of the book didn't suck.

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> I have 1/2 a dozen friends who've regrown fingertips without powdered pigs bladders (yes, I have lots of crazy, clumsy friends), so I'd say this product may assist in healing but isn't what triggers the regrowth.

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Tom Holt Explains Why Do-Gooder Time Travelers Muck Things Up]]> @jamescole: Time Travel into the future isn't just possible, its mandatory! Time dilation can alter the speed of travel, but not the direction.

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Coming Soon: Recycled Electricity]]> @Castle1914: RE: Microphone Soundwall, you won't need millions if you make a large enough Carbon Microphone; just make a microphone that's the size of a "New Jersey Wall."

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on What Genre Should Science Fiction Steal From Next?]]> @SundaySundayFnC: I could see something like Jean-Claude Van Damme's BloodSport or Kickboxer crossed with Predator: A human, out for Glory (and revenge against his Brother's killers), enters the Pan-Galactic Kumite in order to defeat the 4-armed current champion and win the love of the hot blue girl of his dreams...

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Coming Soon: Recycled Electricity]]> But here's an interesting idea, harvesting the energy from the wind created by speeding cars on the freeway:

[www.businessweek.com]

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Coming Soon: Recycled Electricity]]> Plans like this have been proposed & proven to be unworkable for the past 100 years; there is a small loss of energy from the cars' drivetrains that's slightly larger than the amount of energy that can be harvested, as stated in the 3 Laws of Thermodynamics: 1. You can't win. 2. You can't break even. 3. You can't get out of the game. So there will always be energy lost in the transmission from one form to another, and it will always take energy to return the generators built into the roads back to their starting state, not to mention that roads are inherently dirty & take constant, punishing, damaging stress from traffic that's only mitigated by the fact it doesn't move? The constant replacement of parts in this system will eat 100 times the (miniscule) amount of energy created by such a system.

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Only A Giant Killer Robot Can Prevent Forest Fires]]> @Silver_Back: Aaaah, the inalienable right to arm bears!

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Meet io9 Associate Editor Meredith Woerner]]> Re: Manhattan Zombie Contingency Plan:

Have you checked the Harlem River crossings? The Harlem is relatively narrow compared to the Hudson or East Rivers, and has mostly short, simple bridges spanning it. Also you shouldn't rule out the Staten Island Ferry, it can land at several locations on the Jersey side of the Harbor.

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Did Star Trek or Doctor Who Mold Your Brain?]]> spoinky.net seems to be down? I'll try again tomorrow.

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on The Public Transit Projects that Should Have Been]]> @Byronotron: As a resident of a North County Mesa (University City) I'd like to point out rising water won't affect most of SD's high tech light industry but it'll decimate the tourist industry as Beaches, both Bays, Mission Valley Hotels & Shopping, Sea World, 1/2 the Zoo and 3/4 of the Night Clubs get flooded.

How high does the water have to get to turn the North County Coastal Canyons into North County Coastal Fjords? I guess kayaking through Fjords wouldn't be mass transit.

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on How Do You Find People Who Like Science Fiction?]]> I roll over & nudge her.

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on The Public Transit Projects that Should Have Been]]> You left off the Los Angeles Monorail:

[www.monorails.org]

"Hey, we'll build this for you for a percentage of the fares, you don't have to put any money up front."

"No thanks... We're building a SUBWAY!"

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on See The Lost Japanese Space Puppet Anime Classic]]> I love the sets: Legos, guitar stomp boxes & random electrical equipment, oh my! More kids' shows need Lo-Fi puppet segments like this!

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Power Your Home with Helium Balloons]]> You could leave out the Helium completely if you use a large enough Geodesic Sphere:

[www.theweebsite.com]

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Repo Man Delivers One of the Best Scientology Parodies Ever]]> Annalee, I always heard "Dioretix" as "Diuretics," i.e. Water Pills, but I'll bet the spelling was too close & frightened someone in the production company.

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Meet a Bunch of New io9ers]]> But are any of them sad that Flash Gordon got canceled?

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Flash Gordon Canceled on Sci Fi Channel]]> I'm missing Flash with you, Analee; it was like the production company was finally getting the idea of what they were doing when they had the rug pulled out from under them.

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on A Greenhouse Made of Steel]]> It reminds me of the Botanical Building in Balboa Park in San Diego:

[www.balboapark.org]

Image of the inside of the Botanical Building:

[bp0.blogger.com]

Its also made of Steel & Lathes as a shading structure to allow tropical plants & flowers that expect a shady environment (i.e., those that grow below the canopy in a rainforest or subtropical forest environment) to grow in sunny San Diego.

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Zombie Strippers Will Lapdance On Your Grave]]> Hey! Bob Englund! Its good to see him working; he's a good actor (classically trained) & a Nice Guy.

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on The Midget Mafia Of Atlantis Demands A Woman-On-Woman Cage Match]]> I worked that movie! We even got a credit: "Catering by Radical Enterprises Catering"!

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on The X-Files Twist David Duchovny Tried To Cover Up]]> @munkles: They've already killed "Pa" Kent & bundled "Ma" Kent off to the State House, why not just kill her, too? They could play it off as Clark has a "Dark Knight"-type trial of conscience, finally pulling through it with a realization that he needs to live for "Truth, Justice & the American Way."

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on The X-Files Twist David Duchovny Tried To Cover Up]]> Is anyone else hoping Speed Racer includes a scene of Pops & Speed in a classic TV version argument: "Ha! I won't allow you to race, it's too dangerous! Ha Ha!" "Ha! I'm going to race anyway! Ha! And I'm going to Win, too! Ha Ha!"

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Upskirt: Work Wear of the Future?]]> I especially love the slow pan up the model's torso to stop at her breasts, and then a quick cut to the car's headlights popping up...

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Battle of the Genitals in Science Horror Movies]]> @Annalee Newitz: Not only does Quentin's penis rot off but immediately afterwards Rose's boyfriend fits her with that gun leg, basically an artificial penis, but not just any artificial penis but the biggest, baddest penis with full auto & a grenade launcher. Obviously that boy has no fear of emasculation by a woman with power.

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Battle of the Genitals in Science Horror Movies]]> How about Planet Horror? Especially the scene where Quentin Tarrentino's "Rapist #1" is trying to rape Rose McGowan before his penis finishes rotting off?

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Alternate History Orchestra Includes Harmonic Canon and Chromelodeon]]> AllMusic lets you listen to snippets of his music:

[www.allmusic.com]

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Wall-E, Warlord Of Mars?]]> @Garrison Dean: Maybe they're Canadians, eh? The cold don't bother them much q

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Show Caves of the Nouveau Riche]]> How could you leave out Temples of Damanhur?

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Which Scifi Villain Would You Elect President?]]> Cthulhu '08 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Meet io9 Intern Nivair Gabriel]]> @Nivair: Damn straight you're not going to hunt me down with drones; I've already taken the batteries out of my cell phones & powered down several nonessential bio-electrical communications subsystems.

Seriously, I hope the addition of an Aerospace Engineer to the staff ups the amount of Airship Porn on the site. I need more ROV Aerostat video in my life.

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Get Your Own Glam-Rock Cyborg]]> Naoko Mori's certainly grown up nicely since her days as the Nerdy Sarah on AbFab.

]]> <![CDATA[Freddie Freelance commented on Have a Beer With io9 Editors in San Francisco Tomorrow]]> OK, I'll be there! Only I'm going to be in San Diego, drinking a Mai Tai at the Bali Hai, and I'm going to be doing it next week, but otherwise just like you said.

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