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(An army base somewhere. A junior version of Hellboy is brushing his teeth. The word “FLASHBACK” appears across the screen in giant red letters a few times)
Little Hellboy: Daddy, tell me a story.
(Enter Doctor Bruttenholm, a thin guy with scraggly hair, scraggly beard, and glasses)
Doctor Bruttenholm: OK, I’ll just get that Giant Book of Forbidden Children’s Stories that I bought in Slovakia. And to tell the story, I’ll use these puppets I spent all week making. Ahem: “Once upon a… Continue

I'm sticking this in here. Because the intro music for this film was flipping wonderful, and there was nowhere else it can be got, that I know of.



Just press play, then pause it, and come back after a bit. Move the timer along to round 3:30, then hit play. It's very atmospheric and cool. Even without the images. Continue

So delafayette left me a challenge: five hitherto unknown facts about myself. After tracking the trail of cause and effect to here (http://nerdfighters.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1833893%3ABlogPost%3A157568) and then further back to here (http://nerdfighters.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1833893%3ABlogPost%3A137714) , my detectoring powers suddenly failed me and I came back here.

Aw geez. The problem in this is not the facts, its the aftereffects. But we'll come to that in due time. So:

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I rock the thesaurus.

So a few years ago, I found a book called the Dictionary of the Occult. It sounded cool, so I bought it. It had an entry on Atlantis, which I had been expecting, but at the bottom of that entry it said "see also: Lemuria", which I hadn't been expecting. So, I saw also.

See, in the early 19th century, the early archaeologists started finding lemur fossils in Madagascar, but also in India, thousands of miles away. Either God really loved lemurs, or their the… Continue

So I recently decided to re-read all my reprints of old comic. There's one of the Avengers, way way back before I was born, where the last picture is a group shot. And just based on that shot, I realized something - all the original members of the Avengers were nerds.

Iron Man, aka Tony Stark? His day job is genius inventor, so he qualifies. The Hulk? He used to be a nuclear physicist. Thor, secretly Doctor Donald Blake, who runs a clinic for poor people - not just a nerd, but with the social c… Continue