I'm afraid I'll regret asking this... what's a POD people?

::points and shrieks at omnis::

It's from Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

::points and shrieks at omnis::

t loves Hec and his wily pop-culture ways

Senior year of college, my roommate and I took a film class on science fiction in film. We watched both the 1956 and 1977 Body Snatchers (the 1977 is WAY more bleak), and afterwards, when we'd see each other on campus, we'd point and shriek.

And yet, we could never figure out why we couldn't get dates.

I remember reading a few years ago about a brain injury that somehow disconnected the emotional and visual centers of the brain, so that when people who had this injury saw family members, they would visually recognize "That's my brother" or whatever, but wouldn't feel the emotional response that they expected to feel, and would conclude that their whole family had been replaced by pod people. I think I recall that, in a few of the cases, the doctors weren't able to convince them that they had a brain injury, since seeing someone they knew they were supposed to love and not feeling love was just too weird to deal with.

since seeing someone they knew they were supposed to love and not feeling love was just too weird to deal with.

I don't feel love when I look at pictures of my family or loved ones. I don't feel anything in particular from a visual like that. I am a cold hearted bastard or brain injured.

I am a cold hearted bastard or brain injured.

Zombie!

Sorry, no entertaining calls today. Today, i got heart- wrenching sob stories entirely devoid of pithy one liners.

My mother continues to be entertaining via text. She is 100% set on staying a couple night in Forks, WA which i REALLY do not understand, unless she has been reading twilight books in sekrit and has some agenda she is not sharing with me. But really, my mother is not one for not sharing *anything* much less travel agendas. I currently believe she is just not aware of the phenomenon and thinks it a convenient distance between Victoria and Portland. Luckily (?) for me, EVERY SINGLE HOTEL in forks is books solid for the two days we're looking at. Oh well! Gonna have stay a leetle further away from the sparkly 14 yo girls.

Zombie!

Oooh, also a possibility. I could be a cold hearted zombie bastard.

I think that, as the undead, zombies by definition have cold hearts.

t /pedant

I think that, as the undead, zombies by definition have cold hearts.

I'm going to argue that they have room temperature hearts, so a Kalahari Bushman Zombie would be warmhearted.