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RULE OVER THE ABYSS"

Translated into 37 different mythological languages.

Edited by user Monday, January 4, 2016 7:18:53 PM(UTC)  | Reason: color, blurb

Well, duh. The primary mythical media markets were Sphinxlish, Unicornian (Happy) and Simplified Harpish at the time.

The Unicornian (Blue) translation was the only one serialized and later published as a compilation by the Magical Locks and Traps Monthly magazine.

Unfortunately they used their magazine press for that run, which meant that all the non-black color on the cover started fading fairly quickly.

Edited by user Tuesday, January 5, 2016 12:03:58 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Apropos mythical media markets, who owns the mechandising rights for the Tommus - Talarius fight, and are they going to go after the Oorstemoths for its balling?

Surely Tizzy has already hocked the toy license to Deneb?

Edited by user Tuesday, January 5, 2016 7:27:13 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Hmm, there are more Old Harry's Game out there, did it become a tv show? I see it was based on a radio program.

I know what I'm going to be watching on my mirror tonight!

Sweet. I will audiblize it!

THX!

Yes, when you steal as many references as I do, you have to think about copyright. Thankfully, I can point to GoodReads lists that lists DoA as a parody.

I am not sure how many people in the US got the Inspector 12...that is really old, and in fact, until you mentioned it I had forgot that it was there. One of those things I didn't catch in multiple editing over the years.

I think it speaks volumes about the American Cultural Assimilation Program (started by the actor Ronald Reagan) where "Hollywood" works relentlessly to swamp all other cultures with a relentless tidal wave of American Cultural Content that so many people in so many different countries get so many of my references. And we get so few of theirs.

There is no such thing as the ACAP, of course, but it certainly seems that way. In fact, if I didn't live in the US, I'd probably consider the US to be most closely related to the Borg. Hmm...an USBorg. [Requires Cultural Reference]

Better stop now...I see myself falling into one of my "There can be no peace until there is no other." diatribes about the dangers of losing cultural identity in pursuit of a global hegemony.

Which of course was the point of a lot of great earlier SF. Rather uncanny how predictive such novels were, and how we can literally observe it in real time.

Yes, I can see that happening. It's all sort of a double edge sword.

To get reach, you have to make things familiar, but too much familiarity breeds contempt in books as well as altruism.

I have seen All About My Mother, and I think all of Almodovar's work. Or at least a majority.

Those others look quite interesting. Adding them to my watch list. That Bronson one, I can't believe I've never heard of it.

I watch a lot of Amazon and Netflix.

As we've discussed, getting Amazon move recommendations is critical because their system sucks. These all look good.

Thx

I remember seeing this movie at my (defunct) local video store that specialized in foreign and hard to come by videos.

It was on my list, circa 2008-2010 although a bit down, and I even had tons of credits that never got used before it closed. I'd gotten overwhelmed with DVR content and pretty much stopped going there since I had too much to watch. So never got to.

Actually, digital content makes me so lazy. I have piles of unwatched DVDs and Blu-Rays, but its just too much work to get up sort through them and walk over to the BR player and stick them in. Netflix and Amazon are soooo much easier.

Same is true for CDs; although I did rip about half or more, but my library is so huge and filled with duplicates that I end up doing pandora, spotify or Amazon Music Player and some time youtube.

Today it's not longer not just about content, it's also about convenient access to content.

People today have it too easy. In my father's day they had to march ten miles to the film library, uphill both ways, to check out a print and then come home, thread the film, light the arc lamp and turn the hand crank on the projector. And unless you had another family member working with you as you threaded the film, you usually ended up burning the popcorn in the kettle in the fireplace.

Exactly.

My partner's grandfather went over to Russia to help with the glorious revolution (late 191x- early 192x) and basically ended up doing slave laborer, welding in very unsafe conditions leading to health issues later in life. As a US Citizen he was eventually able to get back home, but it took time and was quite hellish.

This is something very often overlooked by the West. We focus much on the horrors of WWII, but not much on Stalinist Russia. One was an invasion that led to horror, the other was a revolution that was usurped and turned inward to horror. People outside of the Soviet Union didn't want to look inside; although it is not clear what could have been done in that case.

But, overall, not sure any single group of people have had it rougher and more miserable for so continuously long than the Russians. None of the Czars were nice people, serfdom in Russia was far worse than Europe. Touring the palaces of Catherine the Great and hearing those stories one is shocked, but then one goes through the Kremlin and sees and hears of far greater atrocities with the stories of Ivan the Terrible and his legacy.

Currently only available at www.Amazon.abyss

Not sure if your Internet tubes go that far...