May 2012
32 posts
“Some of my earliest memories are of science fiction. Not of prose fiction, or of...”
– William Gibson on Seeing the Future in Science Fiction : The New Yorker (via thisistheverge)
“That’s my secret Captain. I’m always angry.”
– Bruce Banner (via aberjona)
April 2012
46 posts
Early Rocket Ships
fakescience:
Movie-A-Minute: The Odyssey (via rinkworks.com)
Odysseus: I rule.
Poseidon: For your sin of pride, I curse you for all eternity.
Direction: (Unfazed, Odysseus boards his ship and sets SAIL for Greece, where his family is awaiting his RETURN from Troy. A STORM happens, and it drives them off course into the MEDITERRANEAN, where they come upon a strange LAND owned by the giant Cyclops POLYPHEMUS who eats some of the men ALL UP, but then they ESCAPE. Still lost, they run into the island of the sorceress CIRCE who turns some of Odysseus' men into ANIMALS, and it takes YEARS before they escape, and then they sail by some singing SIRENS, but they can't hear because they have STUFF in their ears. Then they come upon an island where there is a field of HERBS, and they all get HIGH, until Odysseus says it's time to GO. Then Odysseus' men let a WIND out of a BAG, and some more men DIE. And they sail on to HADES to talk to some DEAD people, and some more men DIE. And they steer the ship between the six headed monster SCYLLA and the torrential whirlpool CHARYBDIS, and Scylla makes some more men DIE, and Charybdis makes the rest of them DIE. Then the ship busts up into a JILLION pieces, but Odysseus is SAVED by the nymph Calypso who confines him to her ISLAND because she thinks he's HOT, and she wants his BODY. Then years later she lets him GO, but Poseidon is determined to terrorize him FURTHER. And then SUDDENLY Odysseus has an IDEA.)
Odysseus: Poseidon, I am sorry.
Poseidon: Ok, you can go home now.
