That box turtle with his head out looks like a boy. If the other one was flat on the bottom (plastron), it would be a girl. Box turtles are so freaking cute.
I thought Superman was fun, but I don't know that I've actually seen the first one, and you know I have trouble taking movies too seriously. I want my movies to be candy. I think too much the rest of the time. At least Lois didn't stand around screaming waiting for help. That's pretty much all I expect out of an action flick. I'm simple like that.
Have not seen the new Superman, but I spent the last several evenings rewatching the extended Lord of the Rings and was very happy I did. Someday someone will remake those movies, and I want to be able to remember what they meant to me after a lifetime of reading the books.
Those movies are special to me as well. Fellowship was in theaters the December after 9/11, and I was working in NYC at that time... And laid off 2 weeks before Christmas. I saw all 3 of them at midnight showings, and saw Fellowship a few times. Luckily I was employed again by February, but those movies lifted my spirits during a time of need, and still do!
I was living in Boston at the time. Last place I ever lived where there I could get the big theater experience. I'm glad they were there to lift your spirits!
I really like the cyberpunk genre and hadn't heard of "The Stars My Destination" by Alfred Bester. I will check that out.
That Pitcher plant sounds like a great addtion. I may add one to my own growing apartment plant family. Mostly Spider Plants with a fern, 2 cactii. 2 money trees and an Aloe plant. Be ince to have a pitcher plant to take care of those occasional gnats that seem to materialize out of thin air.
Same... SF of that era especially is not my cup of joe. I read Harlan Ellison, new wave, some cyberpunk. I enjoy reading Ursula K Le Guin, but hers don't feel like science fiction at all, they come off as anthropologically inspired stories from someone who's visited these fantastic planets.
The other one I liked, pub., by Penguin UK at the same time was ‘The Circus of Dr Lao’ by Charles G. Finney. Not surer if that qualifies as scifi, but but that was, IIRC, how they promoted it.
I've read Dr Lao! Very superior to the movie with Tony Randall as the eponymous doc... That's probably closest to Ray Bradbury... Something Wicked This Way Comes. More of a modern fantasy, but damn was it a cutting portrayal of humanity.
Have you read Nightmare Alley? Geek Love? They'll both fill that need...There's another one called Carny Kill by Robert Edmond Alter that I've been wanting to read. His book Swamp Sister is a lurid classic that stuck with me.
I sem to have done the lot. And there may even be one or two others stuck away in GDoS. The language is irresistable even if my severe self tells me it is jargon and thus ineligible.
That box turtle with his head out looks like a boy. If the other one was flat on the bottom (plastron), it would be a girl. Box turtles are so freaking cute.
I didn't know that. I'm not gonna flip them over to check, but good to know
I thought Superman was fun, but I don't know that I've actually seen the first one, and you know I have trouble taking movies too seriously. I want my movies to be candy. I think too much the rest of the time. At least Lois didn't stand around screaming waiting for help. That's pretty much all I expect out of an action flick. I'm simple like that.
It was good enough.
That frog! 😂
Have not seen the new Superman, but I spent the last several evenings rewatching the extended Lord of the Rings and was very happy I did. Someday someone will remake those movies, and I want to be able to remember what they meant to me after a lifetime of reading the books.
Those movies are special to me as well. Fellowship was in theaters the December after 9/11, and I was working in NYC at that time... And laid off 2 weeks before Christmas. I saw all 3 of them at midnight showings, and saw Fellowship a few times. Luckily I was employed again by February, but those movies lifted my spirits during a time of need, and still do!
I was living in Boston at the time. Last place I ever lived where there I could get the big theater experience. I'm glad they were there to lift your spirits!
I really like the cyberpunk genre and hadn't heard of "The Stars My Destination" by Alfred Bester. I will check that out.
That Pitcher plant sounds like a great addtion. I may add one to my own growing apartment plant family. Mostly Spider Plants with a fern, 2 cactii. 2 money trees and an Aloe plant. Be ince to have a pitcher plant to take care of those occasional gnats that seem to materialize out of thin air.
I sometimes still see a gnat, but not for long...
Never, in truth, had much time for scifi. But I read Tyger! Tyger! in, I guess, 1968 and was bowled over. Still give it the occasional outing.
Same... SF of that era especially is not my cup of joe. I read Harlan Ellison, new wave, some cyberpunk. I enjoy reading Ursula K Le Guin, but hers don't feel like science fiction at all, they come off as anthropologically inspired stories from someone who's visited these fantastic planets.
The other one I liked, pub., by Penguin UK at the same time was ‘The Circus of Dr Lao’ by Charles G. Finney. Not surer if that qualifies as scifi, but but that was, IIRC, how they promoted it.
I've read Dr Lao! Very superior to the movie with Tony Randall as the eponymous doc... That's probably closest to Ray Bradbury... Something Wicked This Way Comes. More of a modern fantasy, but damn was it a cutting portrayal of humanity.
Movie...not sure I was aware of that. But the book worked very well. But then I'm a sucker for carnie stuff.
Have you read Nightmare Alley? Geek Love? They'll both fill that need...There's another one called Carny Kill by Robert Edmond Alter that I've been wanting to read. His book Swamp Sister is a lurid classic that stuck with me.
I sem to have done the lot. And there may even be one or two others stuck away in GDoS. The language is irresistable even if my severe self tells me it is jargon and thus ineligible.
That is the best description of LeGuin I have ever heard.
Thanks!