Politically, I’m with team Rosalyn… and TEAM JACOB!! Werewolves rule, Vampires Drool! (And yes, my wife dragged me to every one of them friggin movies. SMDH)
Somewhere down in the basement, I still have the LP of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. Back in the day, Gulf stations here across the pond would sell Disney records for a song if you got a certain minimum of gas. I ended up getting records that basically were abridged audio stories from movies like The Aristocats, Winnie the Pooh, 10,000 Leagues under the Sea (my fave!), Mary Poppins, Jungle Book, and other miscellaneous Disney song compilations. Still got em all in a plastic bin.
Antarctica. Still largely unexplored at the time HPL wrote the novella. I do believe that when John W. Campbell wrote Who Goes There? he may have been influenced by HPL. John Carpenter’s The Thing followed Campbell’s book more closely than the 1950’s version.
My wife used to babysit her younger siblings when her parents would need time alone to do things like anniversary dinners and such. She used the carrot on the stick approach. Her brother Chris was such a friggin clone of Calvin, but she knew how to handle him. Not surprisingly, she eventually got a Bachelors in child psychology and a Masters in guidance counseling. Calvin would be putty in her hands! I like to think that my teenage daughter is so well adjusted because of me. Well, I did help a bit, but it’s mostly because of my wife.
I wouldn’t put it past Calvin to try to vandalize the power grid so that nobody else can watch TV either.