...facial expression is sometimes helpful.  Marceline Day, Mack Swain and the unforgettable Angelo Rositto are on hand, to vary the eyeline, I guess.  The revelation is Conrad Veidt, the Klaus Kinski of his day, crouching and leering and corkscrewing his head around as Louis.  It was kind of a pallid attempt to recreate the success of THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, but entertaining in its own way.

Pods Will Pop

... -- forms. Each is rooted to the floor, to the walls, with something black, twisted, and unidentifiable. They line the walls of the cavern, go up in maddeningly high columns, curling and corkscrewing up into the darkness, until the light from them is like that of the stars, glowing pale and mournful in clusters in the darkness above. Twisted walkways and stairs crisscross, traverse the platforms ...

The movies are the brain candy,

and here's the mindfuck... An Exercise for the Reader in Spacetime that's the kinda stuff that'll keep a motherfucker corkscrewing and expanding through space at thousands of miles per hour up at night. but a great way to use a metaphor to make baseball worth talking about.

Down The Street From Hope (snippet)

... with the effort to stay still, but he wants Jensen to move. He wants Jensen to take instead of always giving. He pulls his tongue back into his mouth and covers his lips with his teeth before corkscrewing his way to the base. Jensen smells stronger here, more wanton and needy where Jared's nose touches the low of his belly. Jensen's fingers tighten, just enough to hold Jared in place where his ...

ZOMBIE POD POP! (zompop?)

... -- forms. Each is rooted to the floor, to the walls, with something black, twisted, and unidentifiable. They line the walls of the cavern, go up in maddeningly high columns, curling and corkscrewing up into the darkness, until the light from them is like that of the stars, glowing pale and mournful in clusters in the darkness above. Twisted walkways and stairs crisscross, traverse the platforms ...

If you mix podpops with soda, will your stomach explode?

... -- forms. Each is rooted to the floor, to the walls, with something black, twisted, and unidentifiable. They line the walls of the cavern, go up in maddeningly high columns, curling and corkscrewing up into the darkness, until the light from them is like that of the stars, glowing pale and mournful in clusters in the darkness above. Twisted walkways and stairs crisscross, traverse the platforms ...

City of Glass outtakes

...pattern of dark brown markings along its sides. As it moved toward Simon it seemed to shimmer, rising and uncoiling, and then it was Maia, standing barefoot on the dirt road in a ragged gray-brown dress. Her corkscrewing curls were wild, her eyes wide and startled. “Simon!” she said, her gaze darting between him and Luke. “I didn’t think —” “Didn’t think I’d obey Raphael’s summons?” he asked. “I...

... assistant, I can't work with 2 new piercings healing.  I already have the middle of my lip pierced. I have a nose piercing.  My belly button was pierced, and I have my tongue done. Maybe surface bars or corkscrewing my ear?  I know surface bars have a high chance of pushing out but that was semi-on my list ATM.  Oh and..I was going to corset my side for a photoshoot I have to do soon, but those ...

Apocalypse World (Not Naked) Session 7a and 7b

... many sessions. Hope and Bridge have a bit of an altercation, probably about her finding Castle tied up and stoned off his face with the rest of Hope's cult. Pity gets involved somehow and ends up corkscrewing hirself in the brain until ze dies. Dylan stages an explosion for the bikers. There is some more stuff with the gimp but I think I have blocked it out. Quotes: "Unzipping does not count as...

"Ninth Card" (Grissom/OMC, 5/?, PG)

... padded bars became white-knuckled. He wanted to close his eyes, but he couldn’t make himself do it; completely frozen, heart hammering against his ribs, he hung on as they picked up speed, corkscrewing down towards the ground and then speeding upwards again. The cars looped upside down once, twice, three times; with each sickening roll, he felt his stomach climbing higher into his throat – and ...