The Sudden Curve

Smokin' Babe :: Hedy Lamarr

Posted by Wally Conger, who wishes they still made gals like Hedy Lamarr.

The Wizard of Speed and Time

Posted by Bob Wallace, who saw this many years ago on "Saturday Night Live " and has never forgotten it.

This is MY coat-of-arms

Nyah, nyah, nyah. This is my coat-of-arms, and it's lots better than yours, hah hah!

I'm going to get it made into a tattoo!

Posted by Bob Wallace, who's got a great big sword just like the one in the picture.

Science Fiction

"I regard science fiction as the entry drug into the psychedelic world. If by nine, ten, eleven or twelve, you're reading science fiction, then you're probably lost to normality."

                                                                          Terence McKenna

Posted by Bob Wallce, who sez, yep.

 

My Favorite Ozark Treehouse Song

Posted by Bob Wallace, who lives in a tree in the Ozarks.

"That's the Way It's Got to Be" - the Poets

This is is from the soundtrack to Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster. It's actually pretty good!

Posted by Bob Wallace, who sez, long live obscure rock 'n' roll that you never hear on the radio.

Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster -- the Trailer!

Posted by Bob Wallace, who says, looks like the trailer is better than the movie.

"Smoke Rings" -- KD Lang

Posted by Bob Wallace, who did this video, and yeah, that's the kind of stuff that goes on inside my head.

A Movie I Missed, But Want to See

This is a really low-budget b/w movie but it is very entertaining. This movie has really aged well. Many sci-fi fans that see this movie for the first time will know what I'm talking about. I saw this 1965 movie for the first time in 2006 and loved it. I guess this one fits into the category "so bad it's great." But I consider this a damn good effort, especially considering the budget.

The movie is tons of laughs. The alien invaders have an Uncle Fester-looking adviser to a hot-looking queen, who looks kind of like Barbara Steele. They come invading Earth and run into a cyborg ("Frank") built by the good old USA to explore space. This movie even has a helicopter air assault in vintage transport choppers! AWESOME! They had to send the Army to help the cyborg defeat the bat-people aliens and their weapon of last resort - a fanged monster that the aliens themselves can barely control!!!!! This movie has EVERYTHING and any fan of classic sci-fi and 60's bikini party horror should really love it.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who sez, thank God for the reviews at Internet Movie Database.

Bugtussle, Tenneesee

The Beverly Hillbillies were originally from Bugtussle, Tenneesee, a place which does not exist. There is, however, a Bugtussle, Kentucky.

I should be annoyed about the whole program, being that my entire paternal line is from Tenneesee and Kentucky. Specifically, on the Cumberland River halfway inbetween Dover and Bumpis Mills.

But I can't. The program was just too funny.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who is just a Scots-Irish Ozarkian hillbilly at heart.

Cowboys 'n' Dinosaurs

Another movie I remember seeing as a little kid, when I was about four, was Valley of the Gwangi.

What I remember more than anything else is arguing with my older cousin (by about two years) when the next day started.

She claimed it was midnight, and I said that was stupid. Who ever heard of a new day starting in the middle of the night? It had to start when the sun came up.

Missed most of the movie, except for the dinosaur being towed by a horse.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who had someone steal all his dinosaur models.

Take That, Infidel!

Posted by Bob Wallace, who sez, now here's a perfect example of a picture being worth a thousand words.

AHHH! Ohmigod! No!!!

The only time I ever went hysterical in a movie theater was when my parents took my sister and me to see "Straight-Jacket."

Joan Crawford played an ax-murderess, which didn't bother me. What did bother me was when some guy was bent over looking in a freezer and an axe comes down and chops his head off.

Wham, I flew out of the seat screaming. Years later when I saw the movie again it was just come ridiculous dummy, but at five or six I didn't have that ability, so I went shrieking out of my seat.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who once had a girlfriend sorta looked like Joan Crawford, minus the axe.

Attack of the Man Boobs

Well, it looks like Arnold's not going to be saying, "I'll be bock" anymore.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who now thinks he could beat Arnold up.

Jonny to the Seven Planets

When I was a little kid, barely able to read, my cousins and I walked by a movie theater, and I read the poster as "Jonny to the Seven Planets."

I thought it was some sort of Jonny Quest thing where a kid my age was going to seven different planets!

We ended up seeing it and boy was I disappointed. No Jonny and no seven planets, just some goofy Giant Brain using hallucinations to con the astronauts into taking it back to earth.

Even at seven I knew this was one lousy film, that I found out later on cost $75,000 and was shot completely on a soundstage. $25,000 of it went to John Agar, Shirley Temple's first husband.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who still snickers over the word "Uranus."

The Atomic Submarine

One of the first movies I remember seeing as a kid was The Atomic Submarine.

It scared the bejesus out of me, not because of this one-eyed alien, which even at five I thought was silly, but because one of the submariners got caught in a doorway and squished!

I was also amazed when the submarine rammed the saucer and got stuck in it!

I used to have a tape of this movie, but it disappeared somehow. So, I guess I'll end up buying a DVD of it.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who's not scared anymore by this movie...well, okay, maybe just a little bit, but not very much. Really.

I Ponder Learning Teleportation

I've been thinking about teaching myself how to teleport, but I think there might be some problems.

For one, the spin of the earth, which at the equator is about 1000 miles an hour. If I was to teleport from either pole to the equator, I would essentially go from zero miles an hour to 1000 mph. I'd be a long red streak.

On the other hand, I could jump from pole to pole, or from the same latitude from either hemisphere, and have no problem. If I was to jump from the equator into space, I'd pop into space doing 1000 mph! The inertia would immediately squish my organs flat.

Now, if I was to jump from either pole into space, again, no problem.

I could jump from either pole to the moon, but I believe the moon is moving at about 60 miles per second. If I was to land on the trailing edge of the moon, I'd have no problem, but I was to land on the leading edge, I'd fly into the moon at 60 miles a second! Of course, I could appear several yards above the moon and just float down...

I guess those transporters on Star Trek would have the same problem.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who thinks it might better just to walk.

The Dumbest Guy on the Planet

Posted by Bob Wallace, who sez, pitiful, just pitiful.

Weatherman Attacked by Really Big Roach

Posted by Bob Wallace, who's glad he's not, uh, ghay.

Cop, Snicker, Tasers Hisself

Posted by Bob Wallace, who sez, karma's a bitch!