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[extemporanea]

A thousand words on Tim Burton, in just under two hours. I've been stunned, and looking at the world slightly skew, all day. It's also been a bit of an abrupt transition into the next topic, which is George Macdonald, the Victorian Scottish minister whose Christian fantasies inspired both Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. However, having just seen Narnia and

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[strawberryfrog]

Hmmm.. snowboarding covers all of those perils except for wheels, but I contend that the sliding over low-friction surfaces more than makes up for it. Wheels are generally only low-friction in two directions - back and forth. Whereas on snow you can slide in any direction.

Re: login-only sites

[anonymous]

FYI, there's a wonderful site that gives you passwords to major newspaper and magazine sites so you don't have to create your own login: www.bugmenot.com. Worth its virtual weight in virtual gold!

Love, Dayle/Rhieinwen

Re: login-only sites

[anonymous]

Brilliant! Thanks for the tip.

scroob

pressing Tim Burton

[anonymous]

Well done. It's important to get all the wrinkles out of one's textual analysis.

;)
scroob

(Do love the NYT article - thanks!)

Re: pressing Tim Burton

[extemporanea]

Tchah! smart-arse... It would be impossible to get all the wrinkles out of Tim Burton, anyway. He's inherently lumpy.