Random Thoughts

One scientist has recommended that decreasing tax on alcohol sold in pubs and increasing tax for the supermarket stuff will help UK spend less on alcohol abuse. Argument also goes to support…

Kate's Month at the Museum ends November 18, 2010. As the winner of the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry's contest, she has been "eating, sleeping, and sciencing for 30 days" there. This…

How To Get Well And Truly Shellacked Now I'm not recommending for every future president that they take a shellacking like they, like I did last night.Barack Obama,November 07 2010,as reported…

November is National Novel Writing Month--NaNoWriMo to those in the know. This year, for the first time, I am participating. Today, November 1st, I started a novel about squid racing. I have decided…

I get that not everyone will devote two hours each night, or 10 hours over a weekend, to pumpkin carving a Death Star...  ...or watching 5 terrific Halloween movies, but even if your attention…

After "Five Million Miles to Earth" and "Dead of Night" we get to something a little more modern in our 5 Days of Halloween Movies. "The 13th Warrior" had everything going for it yet got no traction…

After watching "Five Million Years To Earth", a terrific mix of science, horror and anthropology, it's no crime to associate British horror cinema with Hammer Films, even though that was not one…

I believe that anyone can dance.   If anyone can walk, definitely they can dance. Body has a rhythm sense. Just observe that we walk in a particular rhythm which is involuntary. Nobody…

In the 1980s, computer generated characters were the rage so people were always looking for a way to use them in films, regardless of whether or not it helped or hurt the story.   So it goes…

You may not know the name Hammer Films, but if you have watched movies at all you have probably heard of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.    In 1957 they appeared in a British 'horror'…