I think the duo part might also suggests vanilla ice cream with vanilla syrup or chocolate ice cream with chocolate syrup.
CMC fnord!
Hey! When did Cal Meacham ever kill a Metalunan?
Brak, a Metalunan, tried to zap him with an Interociter, but fortunately failed (although he did get The Professor). Another, The Monitor, tried to have him brain-wiped*. Whereas Cal actually helped the Metalunan War Effort through backstage R&D on Earth (albeit unwittingly).
Cal didn’t even kill a Metalunan Mutant – one was killed by a fortuitously-timed cave-in, the other died of its wounds from the Zagon attack, combined with the pressure change in the ship. When a Metalunan (Exeter) was dying, he even offered to take him to a medical help.
This charge of Metalunan genocide has no legs.
*and clearly didn’t recall his earlier existence as reporter Ned “Scotty” Scott in The Thing from Another World, where his forehead wasn’t so big.
Ha!
Maybe the rest of humanity wanted to be mind-enslaved by the Metalunans. Maybe Daisy Kalweicki is bored with her life and wouldn’t mind becoming 400x smarter and more influential. Who gave you the right to decide for her? 
And, sure, the Metalunans plan to enslave all of humanity was extreme, granted, but desperate times called for desperate measures and perhaps they weren’t really thinking clearly about all this. But if it weren’t for good ol’ “Binary Cal” and his them-or-us attitude, we could have brokered some sort of agreement - like, they take over all French people or something. I mean… who in 1955 would turn down that offer? “Let’s replace all French people with aliens with kick-ass force-field technology and interstellar flight. They’ll still look French, they’ll just be smarter!”
You make good points - I mean, yes, Cal didn’t kill any Metalunans personally. You know who else didn’t murder anybody personally*?
*Technically, tens of billions of people.
In The Shawshank Redemption, the warden finds Andy’s Bible in the safe, and finds the rock-hammer-shaped void inside, the bible chapter is Exodus…as in got out.:smack:
I had a Jimmy Buffet CD or two. I liked the tunes, but am not a parrothead. Jimmy kept saying things like “take it Carl Reevers!” and “Thank you Carl Reevers!”. Only after getting more into his music did I realize it was the Coral Reefers band. :smack:
To be honest, back in the early 80’s, DD coffee was delicious black, so good that I used to buy their beans and grind it at home. I don’t remember when it happened but it seemed that they changed suppliers and it became the weak crap you tasted. I miss their old beans. They were incredibly fragrant.
Until reading some Harry Potter fanfiction I never realized how dark the stories were especially the Dursley’s treatment of Harry. There’s a lot of controversy about how much Dumbledore knew of the situation, but at the very least he could have called occasionally
It didn’t occur to me until today that Vimeo is an anagram of Movie. And also, obviously, suggestive of the word Video, but that thought had occured to me before.
I saw the latter, but not the former, until you mentioned it. Thanks!
I’ve sat through the 1931 Dracula only 2 or 3 times. I got it from the library recently to re-watch it. When Renfield arrives at the castle, Dracula descends the stairs to meet him and, after a brief conversation of sorts, climbs back up. When Renfield follows him, he’s blocked by spider webs and clears them with his umbrella. For the first time, I finally realized that Dracula was NOT BLOCKED by the webs! (Obviously that’s because of his vampire magic.) That’s why Renfield looks so apprehensive, not just because of the creepy huge webs! :smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack:
A verse from Rilo Kiley’s “A Better Son/Daughter” goes:
And your mother’s still calling you insane and high
Swearing it’s different this time
And you tell her to give in to the demons that possess her
That God never blessed her insides
I always, for many years, parsed that as “Your mother is saying that you are insane and high” but, after reading an interview or two lately, I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be parsed as “Your mother is calling you while insane and high”. Jenny Lewis’ mother struggled with both mental health issues and drug addiction throughout her life.
Y’all may know me as the most clueless person on the SDMB, the biggest idiot, the most moronic of morons, etc.
If not, you soon will.
I have been an Elton John fan since, I’m pretty sure, 1973. I’ve loved songs before, but nothing transfixed my 6yo brain more than “Crocodile Rock”, a song I could have listened to over and over and over again (and as much as 6 older siblings and 1970s technology allowed, probably did).
A year or two later, I signed up for the Columbia Record House record club, choosing for my 8 LP’s for a penny 8 Elton John albums. I put my Dad’s name (I wasn’t stupid! ) and vowed to be the first at the mailbox every day to get my records… which I was able to pull off.
Tragically for my grand plan, I didn’t read the fine print and my ruse was soon discovered when my Dad received a $8 bill for their latest selection “Songs in the Key of Life” (well worth $8, imho).
Regardless, I was a huge EJ fan and remain so today. His “Your Song” is my song for my daughter, Sophia, solely for the line “how wonderful life is, now you’re in the world”.
I’m saying he’s been a thing. And I’m a fuckin’ moron.
Sophia buys me a copy of Captain Fantastic, a biography of EJ up through the 1970s (I assume there is a 1980-onward edition coming out). And I’m reading this thing, enjoying it, when I saw it.
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In a passage about what EJ watched on TV as a kid, two names were mentioned. One was some British guy who I never heard of before (I’ll see if I can remember to get it when I get back to the book). The other?
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:smack:
Wait for it…
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Liberace
I’m fucking mortified. HOW, in my 46-odd years of fandom, DID I NOT REALIZE THIS? I mean… who else did Elton John watch as a kid? OF. COURSE.
I sit here… in my eternal shame… wondering how I never made this connection.
Hey, hey, Johnny, indeed.
:o
The recent demise of “The Ghoul” reminded me of the film “Last Man on Earth”, staring Vincent Price. “LMOE” was, arguably, the first “modern” zombie movie, predating “Night of the Living Dead” by four years.
It suddenly occurred to me that the character “Morgan” in “Walking Dead” may have been named as an homage to Price’s character. Both, when first encountered, were holed up in a house with their somewhat deceased spouse walking, er, shambling about outside.
invisible Invaders preceded Last Man on Earth by five years. I’ve argued several times on this Board that I think it was a big influence on Romero’s movie.
Romero, however, actually said that LMOE and Matheson’s original novel were his inspiration for Night of the LIving Dead. I’ll point out that Matheson’s novel portrayed the monsters as modern-day vampires, rather than zombies, even using them to give a “scientific” inspiration for vampire myths. it’s possible that Romero was sidestepping the comparison to Invisible Invaders to avoid any kind of legal dispute.
I know that about the vampirism angle, but the creatures in LMOE were more like zombies behaviorally than they were like vampires. As depicted in most films, vampires are still able to fake being regular humans. When I describe LMOE to folks who haven’t seen it, I generally call them “stupid zombie-vampires”.
Heh. You will absolutely love this clip from the Coen Bros, with Santana, rather than Elton John.
I have probably heard, “Changes,” by YES, at least 1000 times. But I did not realize, until I took a music appreciation class and had to sit and listen to the song several times that the cacophony of sound in the beginning of the song represented the birth process. The tempo and beat of the song starts out as vibrant and fast. It slows down through out the song, murmurs and finally stops at the end. This is to represent life. Then, the cacophony at the end of the song represents the moment of death.
Should I include a link to the song here? You should have no troubles finding it on Youtube…
I’ve read the Fables comic book series. Today I was reading Jess Nevins’s annotations of the series. Somehow I had never realized that the Farm in the series is intended as a homage to George Orwell’s Animal Farm (which I have also read).
I guess the obvious thing to notice is that they are not really talking about the Columbia Record Club and Santana; they are discussing Abraxas (God):
“I didn’t ask for Abraxas… I don’t want Abraxas… I didn’t listen to Abraxas… I didn’t do anything!
“We can’t make you listen…”
How weird. I listened to it twice this morning on the way to work. I guess I’ll listen to it a couple more times on the way home. 