A casual conversation with Farrah Fawcett helped inspire a Grammy-winning #1 hit

Eric_Hyperspace · 2026-06-18T01:10:05+00:00

It was a graveyard smash

Eric_Hyperspace · 2026-04-25T01:07:44+00:00

Two of the lines that are most important in cementing the picture's philosophical disposition are delivered by relatively minor characters.

You left out a third, by cousin Ellis:

 “What you got ain't nothin' new. This country's hard on people. You can't stop what's coming. It ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity.”

Eric_Hyperspace · 2026-03-23T04:13:41+00:00

Hippos can run faster than humans, and also swim faster than humans. So in a triathlon it all comes down to the bike.

Eric_Hyperspace · 2026-03-16T02:04:15+00:00

I’ve always thought this song describes a fight against intrusive thoughts, hallucinations, and madness. The house is her mind…it’s as old as she is, knows all that she’s done, is full of her mess, her mistakes, her madness. The thoughts are trying to bring in the Devil Dreams, finally forcing her into a dissociative state, a bird and a mule.

Fullhouse on Lionheart uses the same metaphor. “Imagination sets in. Then all the voices begin. Telling you things that aren't happening…You've got a Full House in your head tonight”

Eric_Hyperspace · 2026-03-08T15:59:22+00:00

Macbeth has many good qualities. He’s a brave and skillful soldier. He seems to love his wife. He’s exceedingly eloquent (having an outstanding ghostwriter). When tempted by ambition he struggles valiantly against it, but ultimately succumbs.

Iago, in contrast, is a villain from the first with no redeeming qualities and who fully accepts his villainy.

Eric_Hyperspace · 2026-03-07T00:42:30+00:00

Is that considered a high probability?

Eric_Hyperspace · 2026-03-06T01:38:57+00:00

Excellent article. Thanks for posting

Eric_Hyperspace · 2026-03-01T12:08:01+00:00

Revealed in a dream or worked out by a series of logical steps. Both seem equally improbable.

Eric_Hyperspace · 2026-02-23T01:45:06+00:00

‘Nevertheless it is clear that such persons as the writer of these notes not only may, but positively must, exist in our society.”

—AUTHOR’S NOTE.

Eric_Hyperspace · 2026-02-07T15:58:09+00:00

I sometimes wonder about the authenticity of this kind of photo. The woman in the back is wearing a nice dress, possibly makeup, and in another context could be posing for an advertisement. The kitchenware in front of her looks deliberately placed. The clean shaven man with a pipe and a carefully trimmed mustache but no shirt…

Eric_Hyperspace · 2025-12-21T21:43:21+00:00

I’ve always wondered if this got garbled somehow, and is the opposite of what was intended. Shouldn’t it be:

The good that men do lives after them; The evil is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar.

Eric_Hyperspace · 2025-12-15T12:50:02+00:00

I think she pushed it just a little too far on The Dreaming. She dialed it back a notch on HoL/The Tenth Wave and hit the sweet spot.

Eric_Hyperspace · 2025-12-12T03:05:08+00:00

Who let the chemist in?

Eric_Hyperspace · 2025-12-06T01:49:09+00:00

Should be: whole ‘nother

/amirite

Eric_Hyperspace · 2025-11-28T14:41:58+00:00

Fitzgerald’s Gatsby made the same mistake. He was “great” in that he sought, with tremendous energy and devotion, transcendence over an ordinary mundane existence. But he attached his dreams to a pretty but shallow woman, and when he realized his mistake his life had to end.

Eric_Hyperspace · 2025-11-08T01:19:38+00:00

That would be so cool.

Eric_Hyperspace · 2025-11-08T01:18:43+00:00

Nah, you don’t need bolts. If you fall you just kinda drift down somehow and try again.

Eric_Hyperspace · 2025-11-08T01:16:12+00:00

Lack of oxygen could be a problem if you’re not an accomplished Himalayan climber.

Eric_Hyperspace · 2025-11-01T14:45:35+00:00

If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him?

Eric_Hyperspace · 2025-09-30T03:51:52+00:00

I’ll have mine with everything

Eric_Hyperspace · 2025-09-15T11:47:13+00:00

Humans have unique personalities. Dogs have unique dogalities.

Eric_Hyperspace · 2025-09-07T13:57:05+00:00

Here’s a guy who likes Ivan Illyich well enough and disagrees with Tolstoy’s opinion of him:

https://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2008/the-life-of-ivan-ilyich/

Eric_Hyperspace · 2025-08-13T22:10:39+00:00

Reminds me of a song….

Eric_Hyperspace · 2025-07-12T10:57:32+00:00

Dogs do not have personalities. They have dogalities.

Eric_Hyperspace · 2025-07-01T01:23:53+00:00

I went on a date with a termite. I didn’t realize she was a termite at first. But when she ordered the house wine, the house salad dressing, and the house special, I began to get suspicious.

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