HBO has proven to be almost as bad as Fox at starting a great show and then killing it! Deadwood is most certainly gone--although HBO claimed that it would make movie or two--so far no movie....and Carnivale was killed after 2 seasons.
Don't forget they also killed Rome after 2 seasons as well.
Pretty sad. Showtime did the same major screw up with Dead Like Me......so far they haven't killed Dexter so maybe there's some hope.
In that case perhaps we can spark up the electrodes and Frankenstein the ol' corpse back--shuffling toward the altar altered and haltered to the multimarriage.
I'm reading Neal Asher's Gridlinked right now--it's a cross of cyberpunk with space opera and quite brilliant. He's got a real sense of style--reminds me of Neal Stephenson and Wm. Gibson with the word play.
For a dark,gritty read try Jeff Lindsay's Dexter novels.
From the percentage of people who divorce it looks like marriage is a dying institution. If it is to survive it needs to be revised (think re-vision: a new vision of what marriage ought to be)....perhaps a polymarriage--multiple spouses rotating on a daily basis for example.
Or, we we don't want to Frankenstein it back into a viable existence, we can watch it linger into death over the next few centuries.
A wedding...no kidding. The best man started to light these candles in a circular stand--the idiot started at the bottom left and began lighting the candles from left to right on the BOTTOM first....by the time he got to the top of the circle his jacket was smoking.....
Sigh, there are soooo many really great writers and titles out there and so few are really appreciated. Moore's written some real gems...I think Watchmen and V are my favorites but I've liked most of his other stuff too.
And Ellis is a genius when he writes....Planetary is incredible.
I thought it would help to reshape some of this discussion by going back to the original post and reformulating the inquiry and that the first issue we really need to address is the assumptions behind our interpretations of there being a God or not.
By that I mean we all see the evidence, how we interpret the evidence comes from our assumptions (believes,education, background,etc).
For example, I toss a box of rocks out on the floor. A biologist sees the rocks, exclaims: the fossil record! Ah, evolution. Another biologist see the rocks, utters, 'yes, the fossil record, but note that the fossils aren't gradual;therefore, punctuated equilibrium!' Me, a hillbilly sees the rocks and yells, 'bookends!'
So, the argument for or against the existence of God first starts with looking at the evidence, the universe--and not our individual lives or even at a collection of individual lives, if we are to follow the rules of evidence under scientific inquiry.
And to make this a bit more fun, remember that two of the leading astrophysics thinkers of our age, Einstein and Hawkins both have concluded that a 'God' must exist, while a leading biologist, Dawkins, says 'no way!'....
Yep, I love Heroes--the second season has been sort of up and down but it's getting better--and even when it's not 'up'...it's better than most of the sitcom or unreality stuff.
And several other shows mentioned on this thread are really good for scifi/fantasy fans: Lost, 4400, Jericho, the new Battlestar Galatica, and Pushing Daisies are all worth giving a shot. Chuck is also a good campy one to watch.
A lot of the classics Sci Fi are already reality: 1984, Brave New World(soma as prozac,etc)...
Several movies 'borrowed' from Gibson's Neuromancer novel--(and Hollywood is supposed to be trying to make it into a movie). The ideas of human to computer/to AI interface wet(human) ware connecting to hardware...biotech,etc.....
Take a look at 'Strange Days' or Johnny Mnemonic' to see some of his influence(his sprawl novels are the best--neuromancer, mona lisa overdrive, count zero; these and Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and Diamond Age really have a savagely prophetic vision of our near future....).
For a little more distant future--13th Element.....
or maybe Dune.
I wish someone would try to film some of Jack Vance's novels....I think he may have the best 'future' history out there.
Right now I'm reading Neal Asher's Gridlinked--a postmodern cross between cyberpunk, post cyberpunk and space opera. Asher's one of the best things to hit scifi since Gibson and Stephenson.
He's got a mind blowing time travel story, Cowl. Hard reading but brilliant.
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RE: older women younger man
After a certain point in life, age is merely a number. If both people are happy it doesn't matter.