Are you smarter [1] than an 8th grader?

This month's author[2] for our teen book discussion group is J.K. Rowling. I have promised to bring a Harry Potter trivia game (which I have played with a different contingent of teenagers[3])

Questions:

• How do you serve Butterbeer to underage bookworms?
• Harry Potter hoped to pursue what wizardly career ( Read more... )

In honor of the long-awaited[1] Stargate SG-1 Movie my dear husband, who not only surprised me with a copy today,[2] also provided me with this helpful Ark of Truth Drinking Game. And now I share it with you! See if you can guess which ones are mine...

( Bottoms Up! )

Recycling is good for you, right? Right! (Assuming there is such a thing as "virtual 'green'" of course) In any event:

sartorias linked to frumiousb's remarks about "Illustrating the Other (Across the Nightingale Floor, Lian Hearn)" and continued the discussion on her own blog For my part, I appreciated frumiousb's distinction of the person using an alien (to them ( Read more... )

I wish I could remember who first drew my attention to this YouTube video (to give credit where credit is due) but it's still a good larf: Galaxy Quest! The Inside Story!

Part One
Part Two
Part Three

Enjoy!

In other news, my Mom and I are sewing up a Knuffle Bunny for the Mighty Mite and I'm learning how to do ribbon embroidery (Pictures to ( Read more... )

Jumper by Steven Gould (who is a bit of a luddite, but an excellent skiffy storyteller) is a fabu book! Get your copy from amazon.com or your local library. Good fun + good thinky stuff = book love for this librarian.

Foolishly, having a choice between the movie adaptation of Jumper and of Spiderwick Chronicles, I chose the former. John C. Wright ( Read more... )

On a lighter note: two interesting and pleasing things that came my way. The latter is from xinef, the former, from johncwright

The Declaration of Independence

Click to view

Cool 'net Tech
Real-time tracking of airline flights en route

So many times, we've seen movies adapted from books, in which the adaptation seems to have so little in common with the original, one wonders why the filmmaker bothered to acquire the rights. In the worse cases, they're infuriating: tarnishing the reputation of a beautiful and good work of art with a classless (or clueless) knock-off ( Read more... )

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You have got to read this, too.

Public Service Announcement: Drinking whilst reading the following could be hazardous to your Keyboard! --the management.

20 Lines That Could Have Dramatically Changed The Lord of the Rings

Here's a taste: "No. 15: Nazgul #4: “You know, if we stopped screeching at the top of our lungs for once, we might be able to ( Read more... )

hobsonphile asks, in all seriousness, and in light of some of the more rabid fannish hatreds of the female protagonists in the objects of their fannish love: What makes a good female character?

Okay, it's late, and I should probably just go to bed, but here's my half-baked (Any Stumpers-List alumni out there?) attempt at a serious answer. ( behind the cut for length, since I lack the time to be brief )