The Fly (1986)

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BBT’s film critic Jef Taylor’s column has spoilers this time around! Fortunately, you’ve probably already seen the movie.

 

If you work with animals, or food made of animals, or trash made from food made from animals, now is the time of the year to start dealing with flies.  At my job I’m charged with purchasing and providing many different fly control products to different animal caretakers.  I’ve even been making an effort to identify the different fly species that are found in my region.  I’ve gone a little fly crazy, which is why I’ve finally decided to watch David Cronenberg’s The Fly.

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Musings #12: Lost- The Best Show You’ll Sound Like a Re Re discussing.

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Now, I love me some Lost, and my wife and I have been watching ever since we got the first season from Netflix. We own the first 3 seasons now and Tivo season 4 with a passion. After watching each episode, I run to the PC to check out the AV Club T.V. Club, where the series is discussed.

Like any fantasy with a rich mythology, there’s an entrance fee for Lost. You have to pay your dues by watching the show to know what people are talking about. And like any fantasy with a rich mythology, you sound like a certifiable lunatic who enjoyed lead-paint chips as a child when discussing same.  Here’s some actual posts from the message boards:

"I’m not willing to go with the theory that Ben enters a secret stone door in his barracks house to teleport to the Sahara in 1995.

How, while traveling through desert with only the clothes on his back, and a telescoping beating stick, would he be able to [orchestrate??] collect the intel on Nadia’s murder. Why would recruiting Sayid in the future be a priority for dealing with the mercenaries on the island today?"

This works for BSG, Dr. Who, the list goes on.

FFCEpsilon: New and Improved by R. L. Williams

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Joe poked at the blob sitting on his desk with a pen. 

 

It gave a little, but otherwise seemed fairly innocuous.  A pink-y / flesh-tone-y… well, blob’s the best he could describe it… gelatinous?  Almost. Solid? Kinda. Non-descript?  Yes!  That’s the word to describe this thing that was sitting on his desk with a wire sticking into his computer on one side and a helmet attached to some cables on the other.

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Musings # 11: Yoda, Peacemaker

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I was reading Wookipedia the other day- the Star Wars Wiki that some of you are hearing about for the first time and are now beginning to doubt the existence of, but I have proof- and I read that the reason Yoda was in tight with the wookies was because he had negotiated a truce between the wooks and the trandoshians- those alligator-skinned slavers represented by the bounty hunter Boskk in ‘Empire’ and the Mattel action figures line.
 
Now this was interesting to me because if you know anything about trandosians it’s that they are badass wookie-pelt collecting motherfuckers. I couldn’t imagine a deal Yoda could make with them that didn’t end with them getting more wookie pelts, but then it came to me that maybe Yoda isn’t the tiny green Ghandi we take him for. Maybe Yoda had to go a little Scarface on the lizardfolk to make his point. That led to the possibility of what a Yoda strong-arm job would sound like. I think it would go something like this:  
 

 “Sign the treaty you bitches will, and grateful you will be. Fucking around you think I am? Fucking around do I look like?” (Force chokes one of the ambassadors to death) “Leaving here with signed treaty or new luggage I will be. Now fucking it you will sign!” (Ambassadors sign treaty) “Good bitches. My coat bring me. Back here I don’t want to come have to. (snaps fingers to Jedi posse) Roll now we will.”

Also, Flash Fiction Contest Epsilon is still underway- the topic is Sex, the guidelines are on the Guidelines page, so write entries you will!

FFCEpsilon: Holy Holly by D.S. Knight

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Christine and Michelle held hands as they waited, barely able to contain their excitement.  They had waited for this moment for a long time, and now, with the company finally going public, their dreams had come true.  They were currently sitting in a deliciously decorated waiting room packed with people who could not wait to try the new product "Gender Lender." 

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The Beast in the Cellar (1970)

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Movie reviews with BBT critic Jef Taylor

 

It’s a familiar story.  The black sheep of the family is bricked up in the basement for a few decades, but inevitably escapes.  The trail of savage, animal-like killings will eventually lead to the ruin of the family.  Can we expect a happy ending?

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