Highly tangential, but in the series Supernatural they mention in one episode how a monster has already attacked in the towns of Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook. A funny touch by some script writer.
That’s a funny easter egg. I guess those places would all be full of weak-willed people – easy for a monster to dominate.
Oh, yeah, I have a UCLA alumni license plate frame. Forgot that.
I was addicted for a while to the buttered popcorn flavored jelly bellies. Had to go cold turkey.
Those are the only ones I don’t like. Next time I will mail them all to you.
If you heat up the turkey JB & put some gravy on them…mmmmm, magnifique!
LOL. Please do!
Andy Weir: I’ve only read The Martian and Project Hail Mary.
I preferred the execution of The Martian and the story of Project Hail Mary. I find Weir’s books to be delightfully inventive, humorous, inspiring, and full of hamfisted, repetitive prose. These defects in prose bothered me more in Project Hail Mary, but…
I think the story of Project Hail Mary is among my all-time favorite in science fiction.
I voted something else, in order my Weir favorites are:
- The Egg
- The Martian
- Project Hail Mary
With Artemis a very distant four.
There should have been a “Who’s Andy Weir?” option because I’ve never heard of him before the poll.
Same here, until The Martian was mentioned. I had read it and watched the film. But the name was a “huh?” to me.
Who the hell is Andy Weir?
ETA: Oops, should have scrolled up a bit. That’s 3 votes.
My reaction was, “OMG, the guy who did this Hail Mary thing everyone’s talking about also did Casey & Andy?!!”
Maybe, just maybe the guy who wrote the things listed?
Didja read the whole reply, specifically the part where I wrote
Maybe, just maybe the poll could have included an option for people unfamiliar with the man or his work? I recognized the name of 2 movies on the list. That’s not enough information to deduce that he’s a writer.
I have a decal in my rear window: tell your dog I said hi. I got it from WeRateDogs. They have videos on tiktok and sell merchandise that sponsors dogs that have medical or behavioral issues that are unlikely to get out of shelters because of those issues.
A recurring theme on our beloved SDMB: “I can’t believe that there are people here who have never heard of [person]!!”
Nobody had to have heard of him. Extrapolation that he is the author of the below mentioned works is very basic. If you don’t know him or his works there’s always the *shock* option of not voting…
Not necessarily.
I recognized that two of the works are films. I didn’t know whether those films were adapted from books. The other two titles were completely unfamiliar to me.
As far as I could extrapolate, the person mentioned might have been an author, a director, an actor, a screenwriter, a cinematographer… you get the idea.
One isn’t required to vote in every poll.