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Yup. There is always and eternally that. But, I think, vigilance! The truth is out there, and the criteria for approaching it are well-known, rock-solid, and ultimately self-correcting. (Thus spake sententious Spike, lol.)

I think, trust, or at least recognize, understand, and appreciate, the guys (including of course gals) in the white lab coats, the guys they love to ridicule, the guys who do real peer-reviewed science, the guys who collect, hypothesize about, and test the data. This seems too obvious to bother...

weighing in on water, and thanks, sfoster, for sending me down this demoralizing rabbit hole. :) :bang: (and, parenthetically, I didn't mean to make light of the UFOs (or whatever the acronym is now--I can't remember and too anergic, at the moment, to look back). My default is to make light of...

yup. A good (and characteristically witty, lol) theory. Although it's possible they just like to screw around with, to troll as the kids say, for their own amusement, specifically, us. Stupid 'Mericans, lol. And i guess the Brits as well, stomping their crops with those crazy designs. Stupid...

Crab-bots!

I feel like weighing in, here, mainly because our sfoster is so enthused about It. But gut reaction is that it, almost certainly, isn't aliums. That this whistleblower guy, Grush, testified "under oath" about bodies and ships and a vast cover-up conspiracy means, to me, nothing. I have no...

I concur, and thanks, and sorry to have taken up you time to do this 'splaning. (And, I want to take a moment to note: your prose, Nate, in this post, is really good--fluid and cogent. Nice job.) The process kind of blows my mind, and it is gratifying to begin to understand it. They're grown...

Yup to all, lol. I still like HBO (fine, MAX), the home of some of the best television made. But the name change reminds me of Comcast, a name that frequently followed the words: "I hate fucking . . . But now: XFINITY! A comically made up faux cool something. To xfinity and beyond! :)

Wow! The expression of attitude, of I guess thoughtfulness, apprehensiveness, of something, on these, i suppose, robot's faces--it's so subtle, but still definite, and I can't really pinpoint where it comes from: a combination of scene and surroundings, of posture, eye direction, and facial...

Interesting. I wonder if the average has changed over time, gotten shorter. I imagine it has, but I dont know what this might mean--maybe younger audiences with shorter attention spans. I noticed this, recently, watching an episode of Top Chef. That show seems to really be cut fast, with all...

Is this an allusion, or a reference to, Philip Pullman's dust? Anyway, If this is a test for some images and stuff, I think it's great. It if is a piece of narrative, or a scene of something, then maybe a little too frenetic, that is, I would appreciate a little more time to look at some of...

Not that I didn't believe you, but I had never heard of carcinization. God Damm. I think you're on to something :). I would have thought crabs were some kind of mistake, an evolutionary cul-de-sac, rather than an evolutionary goal. Edit: And, I had always imagined evolution to be...

I lIke the colors and the lighting. Cool and serene. Pretty,

I think it was Stephen King that I read, talking about working with a world-class New Yorker editor on a non-fiction thing he published there. He was surprised and appreciative of the amount of time the editor spent with him, and I remember the answer, simple but true: It takes as long as it...

Congratulations on working on grammar and proofreading. This one is pretty good and the formatting is good too. Now, this time, I can pay attention to what's going on. See? As I said, it makes a difference. :). I'll have a few notes when I have a moment, but preview: a little confusing in...

Just thought of this one. Like the shark, an image that sticks--a leg in the foreground, and Ben in the back: There's this great documentary, Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story, that movie people should really see. It is sweet and engaging. In it, we learn the story behind this leg...

Just looked at several lists of best movie posters. Interesting that there is very little consensus; everyone seems to have their own list. It seems to be a matter of taste--a great photo of an actor, a cool pulpy image, whatever. And also, I suppose, how good the movie was. But virtually all...

Writing advice: Avoid cliches like the plague.

I don't mean to pile on, but yea, it matters. Like "it's" instead of "its" (if you can replace "it's" with "it is," then no apostrophe.) Stuff like this can creep in, I know, but you, we, should all proofread one more time. :) And an "omit needless words" pass is always helpful, in making your...

Edit: Deleted. Second thoughts. Sorry