Slate article on “why the 1986 Transformers movie was better than Michael Bay’s” contains a marvelous quote from Orson Welles, who voiced the planet-eating planet Unicron (typecasting?) five days before his death: “I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I’m destroyed.”
Cross-posted from Old is the New New. Comments welcome.
It must be summer: I’m resurrecting Route 96, my ten eleven year old roadtrip blog. Join our heroes for the second half of their Mother Roadtrip: Carhenge! The Garden of Eden! House on the Rock! The World’s Largest Talking Cow! Plus a nifty new interactive map from our overlords at Google.
Originally published at Route 96. You can comment here or there.
We’re back! And now we’re all Web 2.0 in the hizzle. Check out the first half of the journey here: (Actually, the full-screen version at Google Maps works a little better.)
And watch for the second half of the journey, blogged a mere eleven years after the fact.
