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DUST is a new science fiction channel that's getting a lot of my attention right now. Well, I call it a channel, but it's not really a television channel, more like a YouTube channel. But they do currently have a programming slot on the TBD television channel, if that matters. According to DUST, they publish new sci-fi short films on Thursday and Saturday. That's amazing, and it confirms what I've heard about there being more films out there than I will ever have time to watch. One thing causes me to wonder, though: Why do they call it "Dust?" Maybe it's a reference to the E.S.P. drug from Babylon 5. Or maybe it's intentionally reminiscent of the science fiction masterpiece, Dune . And when I say Dune is a masterpiece, I'm talking about the original novel, not the movie. However, David Lynch's Dune had some fantastic masterful scenes, and everyone in the production demonstrated mastery in their field. The set designs and costumes were outst...

If I was Superman, I'd be flying like this instructor at AirKix. In fact, after seeing this, I'm thinking of changing careers. First order of business: find a recreational wind tunnel to try this out. Next step, fill out an instructor application. Finally, assuming I get the job, spend endless hours floating around like a fish in a bowl.

The House, gorgeous yet haunting, is an episode of Rod Serling's Night Gallery that's truly a work of art. Starring the lovely Joanna Pettet, an actress so beautiful she makes me ache for the seventies, the circuitous dream of this haunted house infects the mind like a computer virus. Pettet stars in a couple of other episodes of the Night Gallery , so I'll be sure to admire her in those when I find them. Her wispy flowing hair and wardrobe reminds me of an angelic mermaid. She's a breath of fresh air after seeing Serling introduce the story, more troll-like than ever with his post-Beatles mop hairstyle. Thank heavens he could write such brilliant stories. Not only do you get a gorgeous girl, and a great story, collectible car enthusiasts will love seeing the pristine red convertible in this video. Right now, you can watch the full episode free on NBC: Postscript: Not sure, but I think that car is a 1969-70 Chrysler 300 convertible like this one I found on eBay: ...

I've been putting it off for a while now, but I was thinking of drawing cartoons on YouTube. Lo and behold, I found a cartoonist named Lev Yilmaz is already doing it. He's got several he narrates and they're kind of amusing. Maybe this is territory where the line between cartooning and stand-up comedy gets blurred, kind of like the stuff Demetri Martin does, but maybe it's all storytelling. Yilmaz appears to be drawing live on tracing paper with a camera focused underneath the page through a glass table. Although apparently simple, it's really a quality hand-made production. Here's one of Yilmaz's cartoons called "Procrastination." To quote one of the commenters, "I found this while procrastinating."

Last but not least of my top five villains is Darken Rahl from Terry Goodkind's Legend of the Seeker. Sauvely portrayed by Craig Parker, he managed to stay perfectly groomed within a hellish underworld as the Keeper's number one servant (Why not list the Keeper as the villain? Because he's never actually appeared on the show). What he's done that's so bad: Having no qualms about torturing the souls of the dead with green flames and maggots, or sending them back as zombies to harvest more souls, or committing genocide against fairy nightwisps, he's connived clever new ways to foil the Seeker's merry band of heroes at every turn. Darken Rahl, a classic serial villain, is so elegantly casual about doing evil that perhaps some of the drama of the situation is lost, but he's definitely part of what makes the show fun to watch. Now that he's managed to escape the Keeper and return to the living, he has more to lose. Sadly, it seems Legend of the Seeker has...

Some might disagree with my next choice of villain for this list, Dr. Walter Bishop from J.J. Abrams' Fringe. Admittedly, it's a confusing choice because he's done alot of good in helping federal agent Olivia Dunham solve strange crimes. Deftly playing the drug-addled, emotionally fragile Bishop is actor John Noble, whose mesmerizing voice grabs my attention like a magnet. Although Dr. Bishop has nimbly slipped into lucid moments just in time to save the day on many occasions, the overall backstory of Fringe seems to confirm that he's caused much of the jeopardy facing two parallel worlds. What he's done that's so bad: ripped an increasingly unstable hole in the fabric of space-time, kidnapped a boy identical to his own dead son from a parallel universe, and conducted psychotropic drug experiments on numerous traumatized children. Although he's trying to make amends, what's most interesting about his predicament is that there are two Walter Bishops (both...