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‘The Psychobombs’ — “UFO”
Capsule Description: A secret organization, dedicated to protecting Earth against an alien foe, is targeted by the aliens by transforming ordinary people into “psycho-bombs”.
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My Apologies
If you were trying to access the blog or website this past week and couldn'tm I apologize. About three months ago, I trasferred the website registration from a third-party registrar…
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“Mesmerized”
A collection of three romantic short stories involving hypnosis published by Ellora’s Cave publishing company. Each of the three have a lovely, lonely lady paired with a seductive, sexy man though some use of hypnosis, whether it be a stage hypnosis show, a demonstration of mesmerism or in pursuit of a notorious criminal.
This Week in Comics — 2011/02/22
"Astonishing X-Men" #36 Mentallo is back. The long-time psychic-for-hire (he dates back to the early days of Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. and his working relationship with the Fixer) is now…
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A Mesmer Update — GuildWars
ArenaNet, the company behind GuildWars, has been working on a followup game entitled GuildWars 2. It has been an open question whether one of the original professions, Mesmers, (the one…
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“They Live” — An Update
Even though I mentioned it in the original posting, I wanted to add that the website Io9 has a new review of the book, “They Live” by Jonathan Lethem, here, a critical examination of the 1988 John Carpenter movie of the same name that I wrote about here. I didn’t examine the book in that posting, but I’ve learned some things about it that I want to bring to my readers’ attention.
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‘The Talons of Weng-Chiang’ — “Doctor Who”
~ Terror in the Fog ~
In ‘The Talons of Weng-Chiang’, the Fourth Doctor and Leela encounter a mystery with extraordinary proportions in Victorian London, involving missing women, a stage magician and his malevolent dummy assistant, Chinese tongs, a mysterious Oriental cabinet, a crippled war criminal from the future and a giant rat.
A Quandry at Eight O’Clock in the Morning
Several weeks ago, I posted an entry on the short story 'Eight O'Clock in the Morning' by Ray Nelson. The story was the origin for the movie "They Live". Now,…
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The Hyundai Superbowl Ads
The uniquely American spectacle that is the Superbowl has for decades attracted the most cutting-edge, the most interesting and sometimes the most innane television advertisements ever shown. (The Apple Computer “1984” ad, for instance.) This year was no difference, but for the first time in many years (if ever) the ads this year included two with prominent and blatant hypnotic imagery.