What's the Deal with The Number 23?

Actor Paul Parducci on the Paramount Lot.

The Number 23 is a unique -it is the smallest Odd Prime that is not a Twin Prime-huh?
Read here.

Then there's the whole 23 Chromosome thing.
The 23rd Psalm and on and on...


Of Course there was the 2007 movie:



And the 1998 German Film:


Great overview from the Independent

I was born on the 23rd by the way.
23 Skidoo!
Later,
Paul Parducci

Do Gremlins Exist?

 We're not talking about the movies from the eighties-(Soon to be re-booted?)

Gremlins Poster from WW2

Do Gremlins as in actual creatures Hell-bent on destruction actually exist?
Here's an eye-witness from WWII.

Are they related to the Wee-Folk?

Here's  a classic Bugs Bunny featuring one:


From Mysterious Universe

And finally a quick cut from 2 Minute Twilight Zone of Nightmare at 20,000 Feet:

Later,
Paul Parducci

What's the Deal with Ayn Rand and Objectivism?

 Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Anthem... the writer of these works is a Hero to some and a crazed Evil Harpie to others. Whatever your take, she was a formidable woman by almost anyone's standards. The movement (Philosophy) she founded is known as Objectivism.

Here's the Trailer for "The Fountainhead" Movie:


Ayn Rand YES!
 ARI
CATO
The Federalist
Real Clear Markets
Jerry Kirkpatrick


Ayn Rand: NO!
From Salon: Libertarian Nightmare
CBS: Dead WrongWhy I'm not an Objectivist.
From  Stanford
Confessions of a Recovering Objectivist 
Madelynne Wager

Other Pro-Rand Groups:
The Atlas Society
Ayn Rand Society


A Couple of Randian Randoms:
Scalzi's Review of Atlas Shrugged.
The New York Times Original Film Review for The Fountainhead. 
Michael Shermer's piece
It is now in my Selfish Interest to finish this post (so I can walk my dog?)
Later,
Paul Parducci