LAND OF THE LOST episode studies

I have made no secret of my raging fandom for the old TV series The Land of the Lost. So you can imagine how delighted I was to discover this site offering detailed commentary on every episode of the original series. The site finds just the right balance of amusement and respect, taking the show seriously without taking it too seriously. Once you're finished reading through their coverage of all three seasons, you can spend the rest of your 4-day weekend geeking out with their coverage of the original Battlestar Galactica, the original V and other dorky favorites of yesteryear.

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Cosmohut.com is a website and they are paying me to post about them

A while back I signed up with a website, Payperpost.com, where I can get paid a few bucks to write MonstersandRockets.com posts about certain products. I can pretty much say whatever I want, I just have to link to the product's website and write a certain number of words, and I'm done. I haven't done one of these in a while, but last night they sent me an offer from a site called Cosmohut.com and the offer was too good to pass up. So, I'm writing about Cosmohut.com, where you can learn about Make Up and pick up all sorts of Cosmetics Tips. They also want me to link to their Make Up Tutorials. I don't know why they looked at my sci-fi nerd blog and decided this was a good place to advertise their fancy lady website with the make up tutorials and such, but I'm glad they did because after they approve this post they'll send me some money and I like money. The end.

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George Lucas' daughter is a pro kickboxer

No, really. George Lucas' daughter Amanda is a pro kickboxer. She's the girl with the cornrow hair in the clip above.

Wondering how George Lucas feels about his daughter's chosen career? Well, he talks about it a little in this predictably sleazy TMZ clip:



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Andy Kaufman in unaired sci-fi comedy pilot, STICK AROUND

Comedy great Andy Kaufman plays a bumbling android in this rather hopeless 1970s sci-fi sitcom pilot. His "Foreign Man" accent would be put to much better use later, when he was cast as Latka Gravas on Taxi.

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GHOSTBUSTERS fan makes creepily realistic Harold Ramis bust

Ghostbusters fan Carl Lyon has built himself an incredibly realistic bust of Dr. Egon Spengler, the brainy 'Buster portrayed by Harold Ramis. Lest you think that Lyon is just obsessed with Harold Ramis or something, he assures us that he also plans to build the other Ghostbusters soon. A full gallery of making-of pics can be seen here.

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Happy 45th birthday, Star Trek!

45 years ago today, a little show called Star Trek made its debut on American TV. To celebrate, let's enjoy this fan film made by a bunch of kids in the 1970s, dubbed over with their adult voices 25 years later. (I hate to say it, but that cyclops monster is arguably an improvement on some of the effects in the original show.)

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Lee Harvey Oswald's Poseidon Adventure

Paul Wilson is a big fan of the 1970s disaster picture The Poseidon Adventure, miniature models and Lee Harvey Oswald. Perhaps these seem like three interests with very little overlap, but Wilson has actually managed to combine them... by building an enormous model of the SS Poseidon and sending a little doll of himself and a little doll of Oswald on a romantic cruise together.

Wilson's Flickr account is a wonder to behold. In the photo above, Paul and a very hairy Lee relax on deck in the hours before the ship's fateful New Year's Eve party.

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Obama "narrates" an upcoming animated film

Son of Strelka, Son of God is an upcoming animated epic featuring narration put together from carefully edited clips of the audiobook of Barack Obama's memoir, Dreams From My Father. Judging by the rough animatic seen here the results are pretty amazing, with our Commander in Chief presenting a surprisingly jazzy, almost beatnik look at the dawn of civilization.

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Christopher Walken reads Poe's THE RAVEN

We've all gotten so used to thinking of Christopher Walken as that funny old rascal with the weird accent that it's easy to forget that the man can be fantastically creepy when he wants to be.

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Beautiful Swear Words

Does what it says on the tin. Elegant graphic design applied to playground profanity. These words may not safe for work... But they are beautiful.


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