Andrew Willett @ 50: Definitely! Don't forget about the part where Ophelia drowns...to realize that her jetpack helmet lets her breathe just fine when underwater. Initially frustrated that she's still alive, she then reconsiders her self-destructive impulse and launches herself from underneath the water like a Polaris missile aimed at Hamlet.
KeithS @ 16: The room down the hall that has three seashells on a shelf?
Alwaysjamjetpack tomorrow, neverjamjetpack today...
Although honestly? I don't personally *care* about not having jetpacks. I was promised that computing would bring about a paperless office. I still don't have a paperless office.
PNH @354: North Carolina data looking good:
http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/7937/12622/en/summary.html
And CBS just called Ohio for Obama.
I'm with Serge @ #17: In this context, boring is good. Best wishes for Teresa's quick recovery.
Teresa @10: Raleigh NC. Hanna gave my area over five inches of rain in a twelve-hour period, and the large creek that forms a border of my backyard came within one vertical foot of making me cut the house power and leave. For illustrative purposes, check this graph of stream depth and CFS flow from a location near me. Luckily Hanna came and went very, very quickly: if the storm path speed had been even normal, I would be replacing carpets today. It happens occasionally, it's not so bad.
Belphegor was obviously the demonic influence behind "The Tale of the Man Who Was Too Lazy to Fail" in Heinlein's _Time Enough For Love_.
As others have already mentioned Gerrold's Cthorr, Duane's Door, and Moran's Continuing Time stories, I'll content myself with still waiting for the second half of Stephen Boyett's _The Architect of Sleep_.
April,
http://jl.toonzone.net/fate/fate.htm
mentions that Dr. Fate (DC) lives in Salem, Massachusetts.
Stefan:
You are completely right, and I seem to have been a couple of years off, thinking 1975 was 1977. I even found the Kirk Exorcist bit as a cover blurb on this page:
Monster Times cover scans (see issue #43).
Much obliged. It's been bugging me for a week.
Since this is an open thread, I'll ask: does anyone remember the name of a magazine that was about monster movies and SF in general, in the US in the late 1970s? I remember seeing issues around 1976, 1977 but have no idea how much before or after it would have been in print. Format like a newspaper, printed on newspaper-quality paper. I remember articles on Godzilla, and one article in particular called "Captain Kirk - EXORCIST!" comparing the original series episode "The Day of the Dove" with _The Exorcist_.
Both my memory and my Google searches have failed me as to the title of this periodical. I would be grateful if anyone remembers the name of this.
Xopher, perhaps you left it here?
http://mcraigweaver.com/rot13.htm
When we moved into a new house in 2001/2, we put as many of the boxes of books as would fit into the original master bedroom of the house with the intent of declaring it the (primary) library. We did so, because the downstairs level of the house had flooded from a nearby creek rising several years before we bought the house. We thought that putting the primary library on the second floor was sensible.
Until a branch fell, poked a small hole in the roof, and during an unseasonably heavy rain the leakage caused the soaked-through sheetrock to split and fall in.
One comparatively recent game I know of that rewards, indeeds requires, stealth is the computer game _Manhunt_, from Rockstar Games. Try brazenly wading through the combat sequences without sneaking around for a favorable position and you will not get far.
Thanks for posting this, I've read _Republic Dogs_ before, but not too recently, and I think it's brilliant.
My favorite theory about the briefcase was that it contained Marsellus Wallace's soul - it glowed, he wanted it back really badly, and it had been removed through the back of his neck (which is why that bandaid is center screen as he's explaining to Bruce Willis at the beginning about pride and taking the bribe money).
But I like the Holy Grail theory, too.
If bugs had names, I’d call that one Newspeak.
I saw that happen, and thought of the fnords.
If I might join in with two suggestions:
Bel and the Dragon
(script) DG Chichester and Margaret Clark, solely for their 8-part series _St. George_ from Epic Comics. Art, I'd like to see Michael Zuli.
(Personal note: I believe I first learned of the existence of the Apocrypha by reading about the book of Bel and the Dragon in Andre Norton's _Dragon Magic_ when young.)
Habakkuk
(script) Rachel Pollack, (art) Jon J. Muth
Habakkuk being notable outside the Apocrypha as the codename for the WWII project to build artificial icebergs for use as aircraft carriers.
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