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Pushing cancer to the final frontier! (via Flickr)
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Top Ten Glasses of Water of 2010
10) May 3rd - A great bouquet and a pleasant temperature allowed this wonderfully balanced glass of water to crack the top 10 of 2010.
09) August 14th - With ice cubes that maintained their shape well past the expected 14 minute mark, this after-work glass really hit the spot.
08) June 9th - Delicious without being pretentious.
07) June 10th - After June 9th’s glass I really didn’t think water could get better. I was wrong.
06) February 19th - This glass had a smokey aroma that was surprisingly delicate.
05) March 15th - Full bodied, with a touch of minerals, I found the aftertaste to be quite pleasant.
04) November 10th - I needed a cigarette after this one.
03) July 8th - Screw wine. Jesus would have left this one water.
02) January 29th - Daaaaammmmnnnnn.
01) October 3rd - There are few times in life when a man drinks a glass of water that can truly be described as transcendant, but this was just such a glass.
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1930s imagining of 1980s New York via the sci-fi musical Just Imagine (1930, dir. David Butler) More on the building of the set here. The opening scenes of the film, which feature this cityscape, can be seen here.
Buildings 250 stories high!…traffic on nine levels…rockets that shoot from star to star…airplanes that land on the roofs of buildings…a whole meal in a capsule that can be swallowed in one gulp… No — this isn’t a Jules Verne dream induced by a Welsh rarebit. It’s New York in 1980, as foretold in the new Fox picture, Just Imagine!
In 1980, people have serial numbers, not names, marriages are all arranged by the courts…Prohibition is still an issue…Men’s clothes have but one pocket. That’s on the hip…but there’s still love! Don’t laugh! Our grandaddies laughed at the thought that men might fly! Fantastic? Certainly—but stranger things have come to pass than those which have been portrayed in this dream of New York of A.D. 1980!
-excerpted from Just Imagine’s promotional campaign materials, reprinted in Ruth Waterbury’s Photoplay: The aristocrat of motion picture magazines
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Twilight Zone crew looks on as Rod Serling performs his on-camera narration for the episode Static (1961)
“The Twilight Zone was shaped by Rod Serling. His instincts led him to a pattern he & I agreed upon as the bottom-line basis for buying stories for adaptation and for his own originals:
Find an interesting character, or a group, at a moment in crisis in life, and get there quickly; then lay on some magic. That magic must be devilishly appropriate and capable of providing a whiplash kickback a t the tag. The character(s) must be ordinary and average and modern, and the problem facing him (her, them) must be commonplace.
The Twilight Zone always struck people as identifiable as to whom it was about, and the story hang-ups as resonant as their own fears, dreams, and wishes. Allow only one miracle or special talent or imaginative circumstance per episode. More than one and the audience grows impatient with your calls on their credibility. The story must be impossible in the real world. A request at some point to suspend disbelief is a trademark of the series. Mere scare tactics will not fill the bill. A clever bit of advanced scientific hardware is not enough to support a story. The Twilight Zone was not a sci-fi show.”
-Twilight Zone producer Buck Houghton (via Dimensions Behind the Twilight Zone)
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Lucas de Alcântara. All we need is a jetpack.
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What the Paleo-Future blog would look like if I drank more
