Falling with style.

If I buy a lamp I like I usually have a new but vintage-looking fiberglass shade made for it.

Great. Now everyone's going to know about it. I was going to build my villainous stronghold there.

Possibly the earliest recorded 'fencepost error' in history:
http://www.dsm.fordham.edu/~moniot/Opinions/fencepost-error-history.shtml

The type of error one commits when answering a question like this is sometimes called a 'fencepost error' because one has to be careful to distinguish between the upright fence posts and the rails between them. I have a nearly useless blog post about fencepost errors, frames and motion blur (useful mainly for starting arguments between animators on a Friday night.)
http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/2005/06/motion_blur.html

One?

A 19th century (or earlier) technology thriving in the 21st.

But...! But...! But...!
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/03/28/guys_who_do_housework_get_less_sex.html

It's as if Angelyne were a crime fighter.

Plus you can visit all sorts of mayhem upon them relatively guilt-free. You are not even killing them; they are already dead. And along with other creatures of the supernatural, as well as robots, aliens and Nazis, you can fight them without alienating large segments of your audience.

I made this American Cinematographer cover 20 years ago to illustrate the then relatively new concept of digital compositing and filmmaking. After the issue came out I got a call from an A-list director inquiring the availability of the stage .
http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/2005/07/american_cinema.html

I wonder what it is about that Laurel & Hardy / Abbot & Costello dynamic that makes a tall thin person paired with a short fat one work best.

A roadrunner could go through that painted door.