Yet to be mined for YARM: other Krofft properties that aren't Land of the Lost. Ponder the possibilities of movie versions of:
Lidsville
Sigmund the Sea Monster
H. R. Puffnstuff
I especially like the idea of a Lidsville movie, but only as it would be done by Tarantino. #cocoon
I've seen this in a few movies now, but I never thought to ask: why do Asian zombies hop? #zombies
No question: Teddy Roosevelt. He could fight anything, be it man, beast, or space creature. #usavsaliens
@Slappy_san: Is it? I first ran across Xombie on Newgrounds. Good series until Farr decided to milk it. Last episode = WTF?
What is this DC Xombie? I don't follow DC.
"we'll be dropped into the middle of the zombie apocalypse, without seeing how it all began"
About time, origin stories might be staples, but they're getting trite. The middle part of the story is usually more entertaining.
@tetracycloide: Wait... other countries have cities?
If you want to throw out Neo-Tokyo or CCC or Bugtown or something, it would work better if you named them. Heck, I might even find the comics and read them.
@gorehound: ERB, were he alive today, would be proud of the royalties. He was in it for the money, make no mistake.
OTOH, Barsoom was G-rated enough (barring certain cultural eccentricities that weren't central to the story) that I could see Disney doing a relatively good job at it, and Pixar an even better job.
@BobbinBrain: See Bill Joy's article on Why The Future Doesn't Need Us:
[www.wired.com]
I don't see regulating technology as a viable option. After all, the Luddites didn't win. The best I believe we can manage is to steer our research in one or another direction.
@regis: That's just crazy talk. Nothing will lead to that.
@Purple Dave: Parodied as "6 of 9" on Tripping the Rift.
@gorehound: My sincere best wishes to your friend. I've seen a couple people go through chemo... 'nuff said.
@Big_Adam: Actually one of the best things about alien sex would be the lack of STDs. You could more conceivably die from corn smut than you you could catch alien clap.
@Citizen Kang: That's what I was thinking. I hope some of the other designs took into account the upkeep on a Bering bridge. Just building it would be hard enough; keeping it maintained stands to be a budget-buster. Alaska and Siberia eat infrastructure stuff at a pace you wouldn't believe.
@WaR_HaWk: Is this a 2012 thing, or do you think he's the antichrist, or what?
I'm disappointed in him in that he's turned out to be another lying Chicago politician, but... destroy the U.S.? Presidents don't have the power to do that.
Interesting that we're having this discussion. Aside from the fact that eschatology has always fascinated people, I find it interesting that we're discussing the disintegration of the nation at this time.
Having lived in smaller towns most of my life, I can certainly attest to the resentment that many people feel about the basic facts of their lives being dictated by dimwits in far away places who have no understanding of how things work where they are not. Ask somebody in Alturas what he thinks about Los Angeles, and you'll get a string of interesting epithets.
I don't think we've reached the boiling point yet, but if you look at the county-by-county Red-vs-Blue cartograms it becomes obvious there's a cultural divide in this country that isn't going to simply vanish.
@Zyg: As a people, we're too angry to fade away. If we adopt socialism, it's going to be with a lot of chest-beating.
Future article suggestion: the eternally old crotchety heroes. At some point some tribute should be paid to Professor Farnsworth, Knuckles the Malevolent Nun, Alfred the butler, Leonard McCoy, and Emmet Brown, amongst others.
@The2ndDecade: In what way could a Cowboy Bebop movie improve upon the source material?
@Grey_Area: I think you're mixing and matching two facets of religion.
On the one hand, there's the iconography and the memorization of endless trivia. Your sports logos, your statistics, your chapter-and-verse "that was game one of the '78 World Series". There's a certain amount of self-identification there. "We" can be Trekkoids as much as "we" can kick Boston's ass.
The superstitions, on the other hand, are a feeble grasp at controlling reality, based on the idea that correlation equals causality. "Every time you eat nachos with your right hand, the Cubs lose, so knock that shit off."
So no, we're not different, just different about what we care about. I just felt a need to be pedantic.
@alchemisto: This is one of the more notorious moments of "WTF?" in BBC history. The backstory is that series was cancelled a week before the last episode was to air (production times being tight in those days), and Patrick McGoohan stepped in and wrote the script himself as well as directing the episode.
After the episode aired, the BBC switchboard was flooded with calls from asking what they had just watched. McGoohan himself was forced into hiding for a short period of time because people kept showing up at his house asking him to explain what happened in that episode.
