A crafter made an incredible miniature version of Bag End from Lord of the Rings. There's lots of pictures showing the incredible level of detail. There's also a short making of entry.

OMFG, seriously. That's astounding.

ETA: Can anyone with a paid account make me an RSS feed for her blog? She's doing the Prancing Pony next, and I want to keep up ( Read more... )

I watched Paranormal Activity last night. Maybe it's just because we're atheists who don't believe in ghosts, but neither Frolic nor I found it at all scary. We were laughing through most of it, and the phrase Demon rape would make this movie way better! kept coming up. Oh well. It was pretty blah, but wasn't so awful that I felt like I resented ( Read more... )

Via northbard:

For my HP-lovin' friends, what happens when you replace the word "wand" with something else in a Harry Potter book?

This.

I've been reading several books that I'm hoping will help me deal better with Gavin and be a more effective parent for him. These are "Taming Your Spirited Child", "Parenting Your Spirited Child", and "Parents, Kids, and Power Struggles ( Read more... )

I just took Moo to the library and discovered that Robert Service's The Cremation of Sam McGee has been made into an illustrated children's book. I'M SO EXCITED! This is major nostalgia for me since some of my best memories of childhood time spent with my father were of us reading poetry together; he started me off at age four with Emily Dickinson ( Read more... )

From Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth (which I highly recommend), a conversation between Sabbath and his mother (she's speaking first ( Read more... )

I am running out of reading material and it's time to request some more books from my local library, so here we go! Please comment with your favorite fiction books, any genre is completely acceptable (although extremely scientific sci-fi can put me to sleep; Greg Bear good, Stephen Baxter not so good).

Last night I attended a Yule ceremony with a client's coven. Since I'm sure they wouldn't want me going into details or anything, I'll just say it was an enormous amount of fun. I'm glad I got to go.

Today I saw my friend S and then Ladymystique and her husband dropped by for a bit. I conked out shortly after they left and woke up in time to see potoroo and his ( Read more... )