A stupid question bothering me today: If mass=gravity, and organisms are adept at converting energy into matter, along an infinite timeline with negligible loss due to decomposure, could organisms marginally increase the gravity of the planet they inhabit by nature of the matter they create? Or is it that they are composed of the planet’s given carbon that any change of planetary mass is so incremental it would be inconsequential? If the mass can be increased, and it follows the planet’s gravity is increased, is it possible the added gravity could draw in an otherwise unaffected asteroid into the gravitational field and into the planet, thus wiping out all life? Paradoxes abound…

Okay, I admit it. I don’t want to go running.

Julie Taymor’s take on TITUS is one of my all time favorites. Now there is this. Clicky to go to Quicktime heaven.

So it turns out I am somewhat known for being a voracious consumer of media. I fully cop to this.

This causes my friends and family a great deal of consternation, knowing I enjoy such things, while finding it impossible to shop for me. So much comes and goes so quickly that no one knows what I have and what I have not. RL’s family have done extensive Christmas lists for each other for quite some time, and given that I am being poked and prodded a lot for this year’s birthday options already (and it is only just now October), I thought I would go ahead and just post things that I am excited about for this fall. (more…)