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- Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:26 am
- Forum: The Art Deco Dining Pavilion
- Topic: Pavilion Digest: October 2008
- Replies: 0
- Views: 27544
Looking for Josh Olsen at the suggestion of Frank Church...
Name: DVG Source: unca20081110.htm Two movies that I've never been able to identify--thought perhaps someone here would know of them... The first, possibly 1950s, opens with a young woman being killed for her necklace by someone that a witness is completely unable to describe. A second young woman ...
- Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:52 pm
- Forum: Pop Culture
- Topic: looking for two movies
- Replies: 1
- Views: 861
looking for two movies
Two movies that I've never been able to identify--thought perhaps someone here would know of them... The first, possibly 1950s, opens with a young woman being killed for her necklace by someone that a witness is completely unable to describe. A second young woman modeling for a painting while wearin...
- Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:02 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Science question
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1653
Thanks-- My question is based on a comment in Peter Nichols wonderful book “The Science in Science Fiction.” In criticizing a scenario where antigravity is featured, Nichols reprints an image from a film where a young boy is floating while scientists look on and asks: “if there is no gravity in the ...
- Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:43 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Science question
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1653
Science question
Imagine a room at standard earth gravity. In the center of the room there is a table with a large clock on it. Through some mechanism, the gravity of the room is reduced to zero-g. Assuming there has been no shifting of the room itself, no air current within or other independent force involved, will...
- Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:00 pm
- Forum: The Art Deco Dining Pavilion
- Topic: Pavilion Digest: February 2008
- Replies: 0
- Views: 23190
Name: DVG Source: unca20080219.htm To Mr. Ellison & sundry: I am looking for a review that Mr. Ellison wrote of "The Goonies," a film I am currently writing an essay on. I have looked high and low for this review and am unable to find it--it is not the brief blurb given in the collected "Watching" ...
- Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:06 pm
- Forum: The Art Deco Dining Pavilion
- Topic: Pavilion Digest: January 2008
- Replies: 0
- Views: 23779
RE: Blade Runner
Name: DVG Source: unca20080219.htm I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I prefer the original theatrical release to the later released Director's Cut (have not seen any other versions). My reasons are threefold (am trying not to include spoilers): 1. The voice-over, while not a world-beater, ...
- Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:09 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: SCIENCE VS RELIGION
- Replies: 8451
- Views: 365753
Not bothering to read all the responses...and why bother? I have always thought that religion and science, considered wholly in the abstract, are ultimately and irretrevably evil, each leading to nothing but destruction, stupidity, hatred and despair. When the choice is between Mengele's collection ...
- Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:06 am
- Forum: The Art Deco Dining Pavilion
- Topic: Pavilion Digest: October 2006
- Replies: 0
- Views: 24341
Name: DVG Source: unca20061122.htm Alas, Frank, Hopper's "Early Sunday Morning" depicts a stretch of New York City's bohemian Seventh Avenue south of 14th Street. Hardly a bastion of red-state virtues then or now. The title, incidentally, was not Hopper's--the painting may not depict Sunday Morning...
- Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:19 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Road Travel in the US
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2669
- Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:55 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Road Travel in the US
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2669
- Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:14 am
- Forum: The Art Deco Dining Pavilion
- Topic: Pavilion Digest: September 2006
- Replies: 0
- Views: 26725
Name: DVG Source: unca20061122.htm And now for something completely different. Im sure everyone here has had one of those dreams where, just as one is about to receive the answer to a question of extreme importance, one wakes up, and I am equally sure that the resulting frustration is part and parc...
- Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:39 am
- Forum: Pop Culture
- Topic: Artists (any medium) whom you define as "great"
- Replies: 51
- Views: 3321
- Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:46 pm
- Forum: Pop Culture
- Topic: Artists (any medium) whom you define as "great"
- Replies: 51
- Views: 3321
Artists (any medium) whom you define as "great"
My recent dialogue with Ezra regarding Lovecraft interested me to the extent that I suppose we all have at least one artist (in whatever medium) whom we define as being of great worth in the face of fairly widespread public opinion to the contrary. I believe I have more than one: David Lynch Bret Ea...
- Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:35 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Frank Church's news corner, the sequel.
- Replies: 11791
- Views: 444954
- Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:19 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Frank Church's news corner, the sequel.
- Replies: 11791
- Views: 444954
But Ezra, with all respect, and not to draw the argument out, none of your points address my own belief that Lovecraft is more than merely a popular writer. He has been misrepresented, often by his own editors, and badly imitated by countless others, but his core vision of the universe is as compell...