Think Hostel in reverse. Instead of male victims, female victims; instead of seeing the story through the victims' eyes, story through the torturers' view, etc. Still think Cabin Fever is Roth's best.

AC

Inspired by the very interesting The Keep FPS Game thread (which I can't find so am unfortunately unable to provide a link ) I thought it would be fun and wuite interesting to show you the development process that went into my latest illustration of a Rakosh, rather than just posting it.

If you didnt see me previous effort, it's here. It was quickly sketched in front of the TV and crudely painted, but it revealed the most obvious weakness in my representation of a Rakosh; the head.

Described in the books quite clearly as being shark-like, I struggled to draw it this way without it looking like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle so I quickly cheated it into a more conventional Venom-esque design. So it was the head that intimidated me the most when tackling a proper illustration of a Rakosh. . .

My son and I have been watching 'guy' flicks after the girls go off to bed on the weekends and I thought he was ready for The Thing; was I ever wrong. While he managed to watch the entire movie without any apparent duress, he woke up shuddering about every half hour during the rest of the night. At least it will be remembered. What a great flick, it is one of the few that I can watch repeatedly.

Just now I saw "Soldaat van Oranje" on DVD. It was brilliant! It's Paul Verhoeven's WW II movie like "Zwartboek".

In 1938, Erik, Guus, Alex, Nico, Jan, Rob and Jacgues go together in university and become the friends. When Nazis occupy The Netherlands, the friends have different lives...

Basically, we are apt to talk about weapons or bombing scenes in war movies. But this "Soldaat van Oranje" is about activities of resistance. First, they were friend. But someone become a soldier. Someone become a betrayer. Someone become an enemy. Through 148 min, everybody's lives change because of war.

Thrilling and suspense! And, an most excellent factor is Rutgar Hauer. I think this is his best movie ever except for "Hitcher"! If you're Rutgar Hauer fan, don't pass over this movie!

Please don't ask me why, but for some inexplicable reason
I am watching "Americas Got Talent" on NBC right now.

And I have just one question...has Chuck Barris started
legal proceedings yet?

Hi all. Been a while since I've posted.

Anyhow, I'm sorry if this is asked somewhere else but I don't want to run into any spoilers for Bloodlines as I am just starting it.

Is Walter Erskine the homeless guy that passes the "touch" on to Alan in The Touch? I know I've heard the name somewhere (or maybe I'm just going crazy as I become more in touch with the Otherness).

BTW FPW, thanks for depressing me all over again in the first few pages of Bloodline. I was just getting over the loss of Emma. Only the best authors are capable of making their fans care that much for who they are writing about.

WOW!!!!!!!! Another fantastic book! I would love to say more, but I wont. Y'all hurry up and read it so we can talk about it!

I came home from work to find my copy of "Bloodline" (#252) in the mail box. Guess what I will be doing the rest of the evening?

I don't expect a lot from a novel. Or a movie. Or a televsion show. What I do expect is that they have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Especially an end.

The end is where you get to actually judge the author or creator. If they've written themself into a corner, you want to see how creatively they escape -- and you give them kudos when they do it well. Sometimes, you pick up a novel and it doesn't end at all, and you have to pick up the next novel in the series to see what happens next, and then that one doesn't end at all, and so on. Peter Hamilton is an author I now refuse to read for just that reason. David Gerrold, the same. Elizabeth Moon is fast approaching that distinction.

A television series that runs seven or eight years, then ANNOUNCES they are concluding the series on a specific night and clues in everyone that they shot three different endings so no one would know how it ends.....

...owes you an ending.

Instead, it just stopped.

Maybe the creators thought that was clever. I think it shows how non-creative, inane, and disrespectful they actually were. I don't know whether to blame just those creators or HBO in general.

It's a good lesson on how television is ultimately a waste of an individual's time. Maybe that is the moral of the story.

Oh. I forgot to explain BRJDDs. When I was young and something sucked really bad, we used to say it sucked big red juicy donkey (well, I'm sure you get the idea by now)...

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