"This doesn't have to be awkward," he said as we stood in line, boarding passes in hand. I almost laughed, but instead I regarded him soberly, or as soberly as I could considering the martini, the tequila shots, and our spontaneous rendezvous in the airport's public restroom.

Michael Rennie seems well cast as the strange alien Klaatu. Maybe that's because his head is as big as a window-mounted air conditioner . . .

And a lot of these stories tread the line between interesting execution of interesting concept and "No, really, perhaps you should take this concept back to the drawing board and think about it for a little while longer. Or find better writers. Something. Really."

They arrived at Heorot deli, / there was not a deli more magnificent