Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes
Funnier than a sharp stink in your eye…
I noticed, to my great surprise, that I recently recorded three 1960’s Italian science fiction movies; this would’ve hardly been surprising if I liked 1960’s Italian science fiction films or could remember more than five minutes ago; but, I prefer my science fiction without a bossa nova sound track. And, there’s the slapping. For some […]
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Read More Terribly Written Facts about Plan 9 from Outer Space[This was a preface to a book I never finished on Godzilla] As far as giant monster movies go, if you were to ask what there was a lot of in the fifties, I would say, “That”. As far as poorly-constructed topic sentences go, I would say that I began this paragraph with one. Is […]
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Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes 