looks pretty cool

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25212851/

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"Even a man who is pure at heart
"And says his prayers by night
"May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms
"And the autumn moon is bright."
(-- Maria Ouspenskaya as the old gypsy in "The Wolf Man," 1941)

I've seen this illusion quite a few times, first when I was about 17, and this enormous yellowish moon was looming over the stadium where I was attending a high school football game. Scary stuff.

What if our moon always looked like that? That would mean it was a lot closer than 250K miles, and we'd have tides that would make the Bay of Fundy's look like a splash in the bathtub.
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I loved that movie- was Lon Chaney the Were Wolf in that movie?

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That's the one -- Lon Chaney Jr. as Lawrence Talbot, the definitive screen wolfman. Almost all the werewolf lore in that movie, such as wolfsbane blooming and the pentagram seen in the next victim's hand, was invented by screenwriter Curt Siodmak -- and yet it's become part of "what everybody knows" about werewolves.

There's a novelette by SF/fantasy writer Harlan Ellison called "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans," in which Larry Talbot is featured. His name is never given, but it's clear who he is, especially in one scene where we see the old gypsy woman's mantra, "The way you walk is thorny, my son, through no fault of your own," pasted on his bathroom mirror.

Chaney got locked into horror roles because Universal, the studio, wanted somebody to carry on his famous father's name. Chaney Sr. starred as the original Hunchback of Notre Dame and Phantom of the Opera in silent-film days. Chaney Jr. was capable of more, as we see in his emotional scenes as Talbot, and in his performance as Lenny, the retarded man, in the 1939 "Of Mice and Men."
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-- though much later than moonrise, about 9:20 pm, so it wasn't as huge as I hoped. Still bright, though, hanging in the SE sky. I was headed home along the approach to the GNO Bridge (which makes you head east in order to go to the West Bank. Strange but true), and the moon was dead ahead for a good part of the drive.

Look up and read Larry Niven's end-of-the-world novelette "Inconstant Moon." You'll never look at an extra bright full moon the same way again.
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'97 C230, smoke silver/parchment; '86 420SEL, anthracite/light grey; '84 280CE (W123), dark blue/palomino

O.K. I'll check it out, thanks.

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2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

I love those old horror movies from Lon Chaney's and Bela Lugosi's era. The fact that they were in black and white actually made them spookier than they would have been otherwise.

As a kid, I can remember wanting to become a special effects/make up person and create those masks and things for the monster movies. I still think it would be fun.

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Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
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I grew up with black-and-white TV, so until I left home, *everything* was in B & W. Possibly because of that, I still like it. The old Perry Mason episodes a local station is running from 1964, the first year of U.N.C.L.E., and classic movies like "White Heat" wouldn't be the same in color (as Ted Turner found out when he tried to colorize a lot of the old flicks in the '80s or '90s, huh?).

The best films from the Universal horror era are "Werewolf of London," "The Wolf Man," "Dracula" (the first half, anyway), and the first two Frankensteins. "Bride" is especially good, a flavor of science fiction with some macabre humor, and at least one in-joke. One of the little homunculi that Pretorius has created is a miniature Henry the Eighth. And Elsa Lanchester, who played the monster's bride, was married to Charles Laughton -- who had just played King Henry in 1933.
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Tonight's the night folks.

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL