lovecraft is one of my favorite authors, and he, at the turn of the century, wrote these phantasmagoricies about people confronting ancient beings that long preceded us, and really cared nothing about us and were coming back to crush us with their 10 that kels, and that's your sort of archetypical lovecraft story is, someone told me this was true and guess what? it was, and then i went mad. [ laughter ] >> smith: well, you know, it's a good list, i have to say, you know. i like in particular he who is... >> hodgman: well, why don't you read all 700? >> smith: i'll read one. [ laughter ] he who is mainly just a giant boil with a rheumy eye and a single deformed tooth. >> hodgman: that's gross. no one wants to hear that. >> smith: it's a fantastic...no it's great. [ laughter ] they were all sort of like that, and then of course... >> hodgman: the headless body of nug shuhab and then the frozen head of nug shuhab and they have to meet each other. >> smith: pretty good. >> hodgman: yeah. >> smith: but i also see then again number two, you mention this, nick nolte, the plumed serpent is one