My First Meme

Posted on by Patrick

…here, any­ways.

From John Scalz­i’s Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies, here’s the “Canon”, with the films I’ve seen in bold:

The Adven­tures of Bucka­roo Ban­zai Across the 8th Dimension!
Akira
Alien
Aliens
Alphaville
Back to the Future
Blade Runner
Brazil
Bride of Frankenstein
Broth­er From Anoth­er Planet
A Clock­work Orange
Close Encoun­ters of the Third Kind
Contact
The Damned
Des­ti­na­tion Moon
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Delicatessen
Escape From New York
ET: The Extraterrestrial
Flash Gor­don: Space Sol­diers (ser­i­al)
The Fly (1985 version)
For­bid­den Planet
Ghost in the Shell
Gojira/Godzilla
The Incredibles
Inva­sion of the Body Snatch­ers (1956 version)
Juras­sic Park
Mad Max 2/The Road Warrior
The Matrix
Metropolis
On the Beach
Plan­et of the Apes (1968 version)
Robocop
Sleeper
Solaris (1972 version)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
The Step­ford Wives
Superman
Ter­mi­na­tor 2: Judge­ment Day
The Thing From Anoth­er World
Things to Come
Tron
12 Monkeys
28 Days Later
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
2001: A Space Odyssey
La Voy­age Dans la Lune
War of the Worlds (1953 version) 

Exact­ly half, if I’m count­ing right. What­taya know, I am a nerd.

5 thoughts on “My First Meme”

  1. You’ve missed out on a lot! Clock­work Orange is a must see … and the old Plan­et of the Apes … and Delicatessen.

    Well, I tried fol­low­ing the tem­plate instruc­tions here, and it did­n’t work. Did­n’t fuck up my blog, but it just did­n’t work, either. If you get a chance to look at the instruc­tions, maybe you’ll catch the error. Or should I mail you a text file of my template?

    No big rush. I’m hop­ing it’s some­thing straight­for­ward & not much trou­ble for you.

  2. I fig­ured out part of the prob­lem. Blog­ger uses (span style)(/span) tags to spec­i­fy ital­ics, bold face, etc. That was nuk­ing the (span class=“fullpost”)(/span) tags nec­es­sary for expand­able posts.

    So I went through and changed over to con­ven­tion­al tags, no span tags except the full­post bit. Now it hides the part it’s sup­posed to hide, but my “Read More!” link does­n’t link to anything.

    Does that tell you anything?

  4. Also: the [span] [/span] tags should nest, so they should­n’t be clob­ber­ing each oth­er. Odd. Hmmm.

    (Unless, of course, Blog­ger’s markup isn’t as pur­ty as it should be…)

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