tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299612.post6297661168774542078..comments2023-10-03T06:18:27.828-05:00Comments on The Aardvark's PLUMBLINE: The Aardvarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11425052822588090155noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299612.post-13370842170859138542013-10-27T21:54:04.684-05:002013-10-27T21:54:04.684-05:00I like about half of the B-52s songs. Pieces like...I like about half of the B-52s songs. Pieces like "Dirty Back Road", "53 Miles West of Venus", "Quiche Lorraine", "Roam" and "Channel Z". They're rather like soda pop (nicely fizzy but not essential).<br /><br />And God Bless Irwin Allen's sense of physics. I always remember the flaming Van Allen Belt from "Voyage to the Bottom of Michael Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11808166630399508232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299612.post-4966135889498699812013-10-27T21:22:56.965-05:002013-10-27T21:22:56.965-05:00I had a blue "jewel" tie tack and somewh...I had a blue "jewel" tie tack and somewhat matching cufflinks in the early '70s. You can imagine what I played, imagination-wise. "City" was a great Irwin Allen almost-disaster flick, not the least reson being that asteroids always zoom through space red-hot and roaring.<br /><br />As prescient as PROBE was in showing a DARPA-style net, it is interesting that Straczynski The Aardvarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11425052822588090155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299612.post-69020839556808004662013-10-27T14:03:46.274-05:002013-10-27T14:03:46.274-05:00PROBE and CITY BENEATH THE SEA. Two of my favorit...PROBE and CITY BENEATH THE SEA. Two of my favorites (even if, in regards to the latter, I have to swallow the idea of an asteroid still hundreds of thousands of miles from Earth being able to destroy an offshore platform).<br /><br />As for PROBE: being hooked up to a living Internet through personal communicators. Rather perspicacious for its time. Plus you got Sir John Gielgud and Burgess Michael Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11808166630399508232noreply@blogger.com