Grrr.

I was beginning to hope that perhaps when he invented the communication satellite, he got not only “this t-shirt,” but also, I dunno, alien-bestowed immortality, or something. Certainly he went on living long after they named an award for him, which I would normally assume is a clear sign that you’re no longer alive.

Clarke was [...]

How is it that no one made me sit down and watch this film before? It’s amazing.

“I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum.”

Ah, 5ives. So hilarious.

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Interesting. For you L’Engle nerds out there, compare with the anti-shark poison switchblade that Polly issues the protagonist in Arm of the Starfish.

One of my favorite of L’Engle’s books, by the way; read it many times when I was a kid. Not one of her best, but it combines spies, new age psuedo-science, regular science, [...]