Bill read this to me tonight and it made me laugh very hard, so I decided to track down who actually said it so that I could post it. Apparently it belongs to this guy, whom I would not know from Adam, but he's obviously one of My People, because he said this:

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of ( Read more... )

So we were watching "Smith & Jones," the first episode of Doctor Who S3, and something said by the arch-villain of the episode jumped out at me. The Doctor, who is pretending to just be a random human being, is nattering on rather humorously while the Plasmavor goes about her Evil Plan. She finishes and shuts him up by saying "You're quite the ( Read more... )

Stolen from travels_in_time because I have nothing better to do ( Read more... )

The friendslist is replete with links to pretty art today!

1. Warwick Goble's illustrations are whimsical and full of delicious, luminous color. Yummm! *eats them*

2. Gorgeous Tolkien fanart, heavy on the Silmarilion material and the Gondorian cast of LOTR. Yay for pretty Borimir and Farimir! (Be sure to click through to page two of the gallery ( Read more... )

Many of you will enjoy Andrew Rilstone's lengthy but brilliant run-down of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe". Incisive commentary and hilarious footnotes. What more could one ask ( Read more... )