Comments on: And speaking of multi-headed dragons (as Lyz was just a little while ago)…

By: El Santo

El Santo — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:07:04 +0000

“Is the site down or is that just me?”

It seems to be working now. I’ve noticed that my hosts seem to have server problems once in a while, most often lasting for an hour or two; I can’t get into my site e-mail, either, when that happens. You get what you pay for, I suppose, and I’m paying very little.

By: Tom Meade

Tom Meade — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:41:02 +0000

Is the site down or is that just me?

By: lyzard

lyzard — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:04:28 +0000

The B-Masters Blog: everything from smut to Plato.

By: Anarquistador

Anarquistador — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:43:26 +0000

[quote]The island forms an interrupted ring of steeply sloping ridges around a lagoon centered on the volcano’s cone (there must have been an incredible eruption a few thousand years back),[/quote}

Santorini did in fact suffer a ginormous volcanic eruption somewhere around 1600 BC, that all but obliterated the island and the civilization that was already there. The eruption also threw up a cloud of dust and ash so huge that it negatively affected the climate in the Eastern Mediterranean for years afterward, and caused atmospheric disturbances observable as far away as Beijing. Many historians believe that this event was the inspiration for Plato’s account of the Atlantis myth.

By: lyzard

lyzard — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:01:06 +0000

Carl Kolchak got a weekly TV series; surely Calhoun could have supported a couple more feature films.

I always thought that about Chief Inspector Bellaver from Scream And Scream Again, except, well, you know...

By: HP

HP — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 07:46:59 +0000

82 or 83. I’m on a borrowed keyboard.

By: HP

HP — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 07:46:02 +0000

I believe I must’ve seen Summer Lovers shortly after it first appeared on Cinemax, in 82 or 82, when I was about 20 years old.

There’s nothing worse than sitting down for an Emannuelle ripoff and finding yourself watching a movie instead.

By: KeithA

KeithA — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 04:22:53 +0000

I think the million loose ends in Buckaroo Banzai, including the nonexistent sequel, are exactly what’s best about it.

I’ll explain later why there’s a watermelon there.

I once heard a rumor that the whole “World Crime League” sequel announcement was a joke, that a Doc Savage movie or book or something had once ended with more or less the same glorious declaration, and so they put it in Buckaroo Banzai without any intent of ever actually making it. But that could just be the crazies talkin’.

By: supersonic

supersonic — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:32:36 +0000

I think the million loose ends in Buckaroo Banzai, including the nonexistent sequel, are exactly what’s best about it.

Very nice review of Summer Lovers.

Heh – I assumed that “excreable” was merely a typo for “execrable”, but it turns out to have a very suitable meaning: “Capable of being discharged by spitting.”

By: JessicaR

JessicaR — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:52:35 +0000

Yeah, right now Greece is like Israel, I really want to go but I don’t want to end up being beheaded on a video that makes the rounds of YouTube, sadly India has joined that list. But who knows, someday maybe.