I would refer anyone who argues that Burroughs "couldn't write for shit" to Richard A. Lupoff's excellent [i]Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs[/i].

I have a lot of fondness for Edgar Rice Burroughs (even though some of the Tarzan books are super-racist), so I'm always glad to see him get attention.

Xopher #42:

Heh, good one! I forgot about Godzilla vs. Hedorah (or, as I call it, "Godzilla vs. the Shit Monster").

:)

Anyone who makes these kind of demands of their bridesmaids must have a really ugly soul.

Yikes! This goes beyond being a "bridezilla." I would say this is more like "bride-Ghidorah" or something else.

It's stuff like this that makes me a little allergic to weddings in general.

I wonder if riding a Zepplin would be a more gentle experience than an airliner. I once got really airsick on a commuter plane that kept circling the San Luis Obispo airport during a storm, and it was one of the most miserable experiences of my life.

I love the idea of being able to go across the Atlantic or Pacific on a blimp or Zepplin.

I really hope that Keiffe doesn't start a promotion like this:

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/26/buy-a-car-get-a-free-handgun/

It really irritates me when people thoughtlessly attack science like Ben Stein has started doing recently. Science can be put to bad uses (and, of course, so can religion), but I see the most basic function of science as a means of attempting to understand the universe in which we live, and I think that's a profoundly human thing.

I used to like Ben Stein, but not anymore.

Here's the perfect audio accompaniment for this story, "The Gnome" from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VMu5vi_7A8M

If you like creepy gnomes, be sure to watch Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now.

The thing on the cover on the left looks a lot like the big robot from the old Japanese alien invasion movie The Mysterians:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterians

http://www.monsterlandtoys.com/godzilla/yujikaida-mysterians.jpg

Nom nom nom. I has many corms.

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/ihasmanycorms1.jpg

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Why is it that we need pubic lice anyway?

I meant "left-to-right," not "right-to-left."

Ack! I've been reading manga for over ten years, but I've [I]never[/I] been able to get used to reading "unflipped" manga right-to-left. I agree with Maggie that doing a "manga" that was originally written in English is pretentious. If I can't tell where the hell I'm supposed to start reading, that's a problem.

Come to think of it, I remember reading a Comics Journal article that argued pretty convincingly that presenting manga "unflipped" really doesn't make them more "authentic."

Anyone else think that it looks a little like Barbara Steele in Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960)?

http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/54/54_images/54_steele_basacloseup.jpg

http://photos.bravenet.com/272/478/925/3/1B28C6E7E7.jpg