“…Kirk Lazarus IS Tony Stark playing Dr. Doom. In Theaters this December.”

sound of Hollywood execs calling Bob Odenkirk

For me its an old cuckoo clock that I have, but yeah, if it stops I can’t go back to sleep without starting it up again.

Wait, they’re mad at innovation?

“No, no, that’s wrong! Just use our inefficient model like it was before…”

This is why open source/copyleft is preferable

Called it. As soon as the Supreme Court gave their ruling on hiring/firing within independent agencies, I figured the FEC/EAC would be screwed. Godddamn, I hate this administration.

At least Prometheus did something useful…

As an industry adjacent person, I’m curious to know your thoughts on the potential for nuclear fuel reprocessing. Is it at all feasible to start up again or is it a pipe dream?

• The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

Perhaps you could dismiss it as having too much of a Western focus, but it really was an eye opening book that made me reexamine various cultural institutions at the time I read it

Pronountheus? Maybe Polymetheus? Hmm

I wasn’t really psyched about it tbh, plus I’m not really into horror in general so the references would be lost on me anyways.

Quite true, and I did enjoy it. I’m hopeful that its moderate success review-wise will mean others like it will get made (perhaps scifi parodies or spy film parodies).

Not a particular franchise, but I miss parody movies like Hot Shots or Airplane. Barring one of those being remade, I’d settle for a reboot of Tremors.

The Bird

Invader Zim. The animation and shock humor was a little much for younger me, particularly the organ stealing episode.

Not a TV show specifically, but another thing I remember was there were these anti smoking ads with claymation figures that had creepy music and they ate dead birds and things.

This one?

Someone already mentioned it. Plus I thought it’d be funny if Aragorn had to protect hobbit muppets from nazgul muppets.

• The Revenant, keep Leonardo DiCaprio
• The Martian, keep Matt Damon
• Lord of the Rings, keep Viggo Mortensen

• Do what I could to stop the passing of the SCOTUS Citizen’s United ruling
• Write a letter to then Senator Obama that there’s a major recession coming and that holding the banks accountable and buoying the lower and middle class is a better option than a bailout of the private sector
• Warn about various impending natural disasters around the world to try to save as many folks as I could

My first picks have already been mentioned, but I think these women have also been influential

Flannery O’ Connor, Shirley Jackson, Emily Dickinson

That there is an as of yet undiscovered loophole to either the no cloning theorem or the more general no broadcast theorem. I can understand the problems that are generated by either being true, but FTL communication and dataships are just so darn cool.