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Moniker La Winski
When my ex was pregnant with our daughter and people asked us what we wanted to name the baby, I'd say "Harpo if it's a boy and Medusa if it's a girl." It was a girl, and we named her Kira.
I had a friend in high school named Houston Jeremiah Rabbitt. Poor guy. Even his nickname, Jed, didn't save him from ridicule.
posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 9:42 AM on July 24, 2008
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Dead Funnies
Yeah! Yeah, yeah! That's it! I've read the Tibetan Book of the Dead two or three times and this beautifully done piece of work rings true. Great job. Great link.
Fucking smoky light. Fucking demons. I hate those guys.
posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 6:56 AM on July 23, 2008
Come to think of it, I did a three-page comic version of the Book of the Dead myself, back in the 80's, using funny animals. Angels, demons, sex, rebirth -- not as coherent as this. It was published in Dr. Wirtham's Comics and Stories after seeing the light of day in the funny-animal comix apa Rowrbrazzle. I ought to scan the thing in, one of these days.
posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 7:08 AM on July 23, 2008
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RIP Thomas Disch
OMG OMG -- I had no idea. This is so so so so sad... 334, Camp Concentration, Echo Round His Bones, Descending... oh I am so ready to cry.
God dammit. God fucking dammit.
posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 12:20 PM on July 7, 2008
Vance, great as he is, y2karl, is by no means to be compared to Lem. The two are utterly dissimilar. Lem, Wolfe, Dick, and Disch do indeed go together -- but Vance? No no no. His use of language is second to none but he is not the trailblazer Lem was, or Wolfe is. And I suspect he would agree with that. I would put Chip Delany in there before Vance -- who was not New Wave in any case. (Not that Lem was.) Shit, I'd put Harlan Ellison in there before Vance.
/derail
posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 5:35 PM on July 7, 2008
*shrug* I don't think Vance belongs in that list of "trailblazers," is all I am saying, and I'll go with that. TDE and BOTNS have far-future settings -- so do lots of sf books. The tone and themes of TDE and Wolfe's work are nothing alike, for my money. Sure Wolfe owes something to Vance but then everyone who writes sf owes something to Wells. (Or Heinlein... or Asimov... or Clarke... or Hugo Gernsback. )
Dammit, I love Vance and have read... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 12:29 PM on July 8, 2008
And even Dick was essentially just a pulp hack -- until he went bonkers, then he was off somewhere else.
Too much derail, I apologize.
posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 12:30 PM on July 8, 2008
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Europa Film Treasures
dougzilla, I found this annoying too, but I found that if you pause the film for a while the whole thing will download into the buffer -- then you can play it without interruption. Takes some time, but worthwhile.
Nicely done stereo soundtracks, too, in the ones I saw.
posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 10:26 AM on July 3, 2008
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George Carlin Dead at 71
Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.
One of the funniest Carlin routines I ever saw was also hands-down the simplest comedy routine anyone could possibly have devised. He walked out on stage and Just. Stood. There. He looked around, with a generally pissed-off and sardonic expression on his face. He. Just. Stood. There.
And somehow -- somehow -- he made it funny. It took a while but... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 10:48 AM on June 23, 2008
Roller fucking!
posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 11:54 AM on June 23, 2008
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Introducing to MetaFilter: Reg Mellor, one of my all-time heroes.
Ferrets... I hate ferrets. A female roomate I had for a while owned a ferret. The little fucker could squeeze itself as flat as a piece of paper. It regularly crawled under my bedroom door -- that's right, under it -- and shit on my bed. Once it crawled up my pant leg while I was watching TV and I could not get it out. Plus they smell.
I hate ferrets. I would rather have Pinky the very... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 12:42 PM on June 18, 2008
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Spoiler Alert.
You think Roger Corman ever complained that people didn't "get" his work?
The difference is that Corman had no pretensions about being an "auteur."
posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 10:23 AM on June 18, 2008
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What I Really Want Is To Direct
I only watched the Tim Burton link, but I loved it. It's true that his Batman was a flawed masterpiece, and that the series reboot with Christian Bale is on the money -- but that shot of the Batmobile zooming through the autumn night is pure 100% Batman the way it ought to be. Fucking brilliant. I said so at the time and I say so again.
The Ladykillers... well, without Alec Guiness, of course, it wouldn't work. It is true, even his... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 10:03 AM on June 17, 2008
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Good night, Stan
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posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 12:40 PM on June 16, 2008
Well, if God ever needs someone to really do the deed as far as designing stuff like the End of Days and Revelations and so on, he will have to consult with Stan on it in order to do it right.
posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 1:08 PM on June 16, 2008
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El Gato Unicornio!
Great cards. That Frankenstein's monster sure looks like the Lugosi version as opposed to the Karloff.
posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 10:44 AM on June 16, 2008
Um, the old cards, that is -- not the new ones. I love the new ones... they look like character designs for that Cartoon Network show about the imaginary creatures.
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at 10:46 AM on June 16, 2008
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Best review of worst book ever
I can't think, offhand, of anything worse than Brown's Angels and Demons, other than self-published or POD stuff. I didn't love The Da Vinci Code but at least I finished it. Angels and Demons just sat there, smelling.
posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 7:42 AM on June 16, 2008
There's also this piece of shit: The Pleistocene Redemption. (I had to review this, back in '99, and my review is linked to part way down this long, thoughtful dissection of a genuine train-wreck of a book. So I had to read it all, and it was a real effort!)
posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 8:01 AM on June 16, 2008
