Wednesday, December 08, 2004

 
What?!? No "eternalizing fluid" on sale @ Lily Dale? (See "Elegy" -Twilight Zone)
Thanx to Googled "michaeldvd":"Elegy (Episode 20, Feb 19 1960, 24:59 minutes) - The year is 2185 and the people, having suffered a nuclear holocaust in 1985, have slowly rebuilt their world and have gone to the stars to further expand the human experience. And so it is that three astronauts find themselves over 600 million miles from home - and lost. Short of fuel, they have no option but to land on an asteroid that seems to have remarkable properties similar to Earth. However, this is no Earth as all the inhabitants are suspended in some sort of suspended animation. All except one that is - the caretaker Jeremy Wickwire (Cedric Kellaway) - who eventually reveals the true nature of this world to the three bewildered astronauts who have no option but to make this place their home for eternity. One of the earlier episodes of the series, it is highlighted by some rather poor spacecraft effects along with a decently handled story and some decent performances. Directed by Douglas Heyes."
The astronauts are tricked into imbibing "eternalizing fluid." The effect, while fatal, is less disfiguring than the stuff downed by Victor Yushchenko. The episode ends as the cartaker fastidiously dusts the corpses which are seated at the controls of their ever-homebound spacecraft.

If encasing an entire community in Lucite(formaldehyde has a terrible *stank*)or whathaveyou is too daunting a er, undertaking, how 'bout a wax museum("Madame De Tocqueville's"?)of NRO luminaries featured in tableaus appropriate for their deepest desires. WFB could be puffing on a doobie, clad in yachtsmens' garb. A pithisecond's thought puts Derbywire in a Zulu war era uniform, complete with Martini-Henry and officers' pith helmet. And the picture of Richard "Nimrod" Lowry with dog 'n gauge has everything a sculptor would need.(And if he is need of a shotgun, I've got two(don't ask)for sale-granted, they have been essentially "demilled" by having attempted to shoot 12 guage signal flares through what I guess was too much of a "choke.")I'm not sure about Goldberg's (batteries-not-included) golem, but it would probably involve bacon.(btw., "Arghh" was my first computer password at work many years ago) As to Andrew Stuttafrozen,
colo[u]r me agnostic.