I took Mom to go see The Force Awakens tonight, because it's still playing in SC omg, and I think she enjoyed it. I enjoyed it! This was my fourth time, and I've read and written enough about these characters at this point that I was watching with a more or less continuous stream of meta-commentary in my head, which occasionally meant I was ( Read more... )

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah. You know, I think I may like A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back better as films, but Return of the Jedi will always be my favorite in terms of Luke Skywalker ( Read more... )

Our housemate Esther confessed some time ago that she'd never seen a single Star Wars movie, and while I did take a moment to allow for the possibility that maybe she just wasn't interested, Star Wars doesn't need to be for everyone, it eventually became apparent that she wanted to see the films and was simply awaiting the opportunity ( Read more... )

True story: I have listened to the Misty Mountains song at least three dozen times in the past day.

(Yes. I'm talking about The Hobbit again.)

Considering that this rendition is a mere two verses of Tolkien's original text, this may be a little pathetic. But they're Tolkien's words, sung in thirteen-part harmony, and I think I've been waiting ( Read more... )

Soon I will give you a legit update about how life's going here in Kurdistan. I know I posted a little about it yesterday, but I also know I've been neglecting the blog somewhat over this past week. I'm finding that spending almost the entirety of one's day on one's laptop does not leave one ready to write about one's day very much at all ( Read more... )

I began Madeline L'Engle's A Ring of Endless Light yesterday; I'm reading it again for the first time in maybe twelve years. My chief impression/memory from the first reading is that it was a book I kept itching to get back to, whenever I was pulled away for family obligations. I remember I read it over a Thanksgiving break, a library copy, ( Read more... )

The first time I ever learned that the word "medium" could mean more than halfway between hot and cold was when I read A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L'Engle. The characters travel to another planet to seek guidance from a medium - a psychic - and I was terribly confused for the first half of the chapter. A medium? I thought. Medium to what ( Read more... )