What life is all about.

You may consider me a complete convert to unregenerate consumerism, as I have just determined that life's meaning derives from the ability to watch a pristine digital rendering of Zombies of Mora Tau on a high-resolution flat screen display in the comfort of one's home.

Pray for me—if you ever pray.

Comments

[Sam Adams]

Just keep Roky Erickson away from "Creature with the Atom Brain." He's doing so well these days.

[Claire K.]

I think it's me they should be praying for, frankly.

[tk]

Wives.

I got a 60-inch widescreen a couple years ago, and I still love the anticipation of seeing movies I'd only previously seen on full screen VHS tapes. (And my wife still rolls her eyes at me.)

So, does the photo indicate that you're a put-the-pre-widescreen-era-movie-on-wide-zoom type? That's always an interesting dilemma--actual aspect ratio, or fill out the screen? Something about those black bars to the left and right bother me in a way that the bars at the bottom and top on WIDE widescreen movies don't. (The awful things we cope with in the developed world.)

Does anyone know...did I hear/read somewhere that they're fiddling with the idea of putting the old aspect ratios in a sort of "box" on the screen, where the black kinda surrounds the picture?

[William]

I can live with that.

[Glenn Kenny]

As it happens, tk, 1;85 IS the ratio the film was displayed in, at least as far as all the sources I can glean have it, and the natural habitat of the Katzman box set which Mr. Adams, myself, and probably you should seek out. And my wife actually has a great good humor about this sort of thing—the banter herein is more along the lines of a Burns and Allen routine. I hope...