* Lost‘s final two seasons will each be 17 hours long, to make up for the hours lost to the writers’ strike this season.
* Two of my favorite things, Battlestar Galactica and cat ownership, combine in Tricia Helfer’s PETA ad.
* Sign this petition to get godlike Universal Monsters make-up artist Jack Pierce a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (Via B-Sol, who’s assembled a fantastic gallery of Pierce’s best work.)
* I was quite taken with Monster Brains’ assortment of art by early 20th-century French illustrator Gustave-Henri Abdul Karim Jossot.
* This week’s Horror Roundtable is about our favorite special effects sequence in a horror film. I personally stay in my (dis)comfort zone, but among the other responses a clear Greatest Of All Time emerges, and on that score I wouldn’t disagree.
I really like the ad, and probably wouldn’t have seen it otherwise. Much thanks!