#88: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - The dwarves, along with Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey, continue their quest to reclaim Erebor, their homeland, from Smaug. Bilbo Baggins is in possession of a mysterious and magical ring. [imdb]

( All the spoilers )

With much better planning, I was finally able to see The Hobbit today! I'm breaking my 100 Things format just briefly to talk about the viewing experience, which for me was the IMAX 3D high frame-rate one, aka maximum power. Totally worth it. For me, there was no "adjustment" period with the HFR; I certainly noticed it at the beginning, but it was ( Read more... )

In "Relevant to your interests" news, Benedict Cumberbatch is apparently going to be in The Hobbit. I saw a few different speculations on his role, but today's rumor is that he's voicing Smaug, which would be frelling epic.

Faramir and Lee Adama, founding members of the "My daddy loves my dead brother best!" Stitch & Bitch Club.

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* Kara Thrace has snuck into the "Final Four" of a "Best Character on TV" vote. She's now up against House. This is extremely important Internet business, so go vote!

* Via bantha_fodder, fans of Heroes, hockey, or both may want to know that Milo Ventimiglia and Hayden Panettiere are BFF with the Stanley Cup. No, seriously. Think they deliberately chose the ( Read more... )

Give thanks to Tolkien, flist, for sparing you a string of OMGWTFPOLARBEAR posts from me. I dared to leave my computer and read FotR this afternoon, because it's time to get back on the wagon of rereads, so I didn't notice at first when the login screen for the gateway app that allows me to access the network popped up. My attempt to login resulted ( Read more... )

Not much to report.  Life has been swimming, reading, and t00bing online.  It is of the good.  Especially now that the UCI webmail site is down so I couldn't do school business anyway, lalala! :-D ( Read more... )