That is really excellent. So cool to see Jonathan's touches of humor while being a "normal person" at the house. Thanks for the link.

I'm in North Carolina, but my family originally comes from Georgia, and I've spent much time there. Went to college at UGA, Athens. Where 'bouts in Georgia are you moving?

Al Qaeda's executioners do not quickly and mercifully chop off the victim's head. It's a long, sawing process with a knife that may last more than a minute. It's beyond inhuman.

Before the guillotine -- in the old days of "civilized" beheading -- the person with the soon-to-be-empty shoulders would often pay the axeman to sharpen his blade and keep a steady hand. An executioner who had a lot on his mind or might have sank a couple of pints prior to doing the deed might occasionally need two or three strokes to complete the anatomical separation.

The Leviathans is based on H. P. Lovecraft's mythos only loosely, at best -- the basic commonality being the elder race that is inimical to humanity seeking to return to its former dominance. The critter in the upstairs room has its roots in "The Dunwich Horror," and to some degree "The Shuttered Room" (which August Derleth wrote, based on Lovecraft's notes, calling it a "posthumous collaboration"). DS does a pretty good job capturing the creepy atmosphere of the stories, at least in the early episodes, though there are other Lovecraft tales that might have been every bit as conducive to "borrowing" within the context of the Leviathans -- "The Whisperer in the Darkness" coming immediately to mind. Compared to Lovecraft's Great Old Ones, the Leviathans are simple dilettantes when it comes to clearing the earth of its human cancer.

I finally broke down and got the thing. I'll probably get to it over the Christmas holidays. I look forward to it with excitement and...trepidation. 

Charles -- as a matter of fact, the character's name is Max Collins; but someone in the know might just swear that it's actually Quentin. Since he comes from a "small fishing village in Maine," the Marine CO constantly refers to him as a "f*ckin' Yankee wharf rat."

Hmm -- Let's see if I can remember the proper sequence of events...

Well, first off, writer Steve Vernon posted a nice review of Blue Devil Island, my upcoming WWII novel (which features a Collins, by the way), and one of his remarks was about old war comics, which he compared it favorably to. This brought to mind the fact that, a while back, I had been intending to look up some stuff on old Bugs Bunny war cartoons, so I went to YouTube, and while searching for cartoons, I came upon some entries for Woody Woodpecker. This made me think of other old TV cartoons, including Linus the Lion-Hearted. So that brought to mind old TV commercials, and the first one I thought of was Post Crispy Critters cereal. When I did a search for Crispy Critters, it also brought up Post Rice Krinkles, and I found that commercial. The first thing I thought of then was that I needed to post this on the DS Board so MB and Midnite could have a field day trying to figure out how I found such a thing.




What do you mean I must be some kind of freaking loon?

No; Ivana was the blond who....

[spoiler]poisoned Bond during the card game.[/spoiler]

Typical Angelique-ish behavior.