This too.

He may also just have a very bad memory. I saw all three movies, but have never read the books (though I did read The Hobbit long long ago). And while some of it would probably sound familiar as I hit it, mostly all I could tell you is um, there's a ring and some guys including Sam and ...Frodo? and some human guys and an elf. And they have to take the ring to Mordor. Throw it in Mount Doom? Because there's um...an evil flaming vagina in the sky? Right, some evil dude named Sauron.The one ring will rule them all? It's evil and makes the hobbit dude weirdly sweaty. And there's a girl named Eowyn who like, rides horses or fights a war or something, and she mostly wasn't in the movie. And there's elves who like, disappear. And Cate Blanchett. And they crawl around through some caves, and fight a war, and there's talking trees, and the creepy CGI thing who talks funny and wants the ring (will it make him less creppy?)

...seriously, that's about all I remember.

And Cate Blanchett.

Sort of random Cate Blanchett, from what I remember. Like, the fellowship stumbled upon her and she gave them brooches.

Apparently you need it for some Canadian meal called "fish and brewis" which also requires something called "scrunchions."

Newfoundland meal. We always had hard tack. It's amazing that I didn't break a tooth on it.

I thought scrunchions were pretty universal. They're pork rinds, really.

Honestly, though, he's a nerd and he doesn't know this stuff? Amazing.

He addresses this directly noting that he purposefully avoided getting into High Fantasy because he was already gay and ubergeeky and getting bullied incessantly, and fantasy didn't jibe with his few saving social connections in punk rock and being a teacher's pet. Also it was frowned on with his conservative Christian upbringing. He wasn't really allowed to read much or see much growing up.

He wasn't really allowed to read much or see much growing up.

Ah, I see. And he's making up for lost time. I think I'll waste my afternoon reading his coverage of The Hobbit.

I really kind of want to set Mark of Mark Reads/Watches up with the StuntHusband, but StuntHusband is incapable of keeping his mouth shut about spoilers.

I was thinking of making tourtiere for Christmas eve! Jesse, do you have a family recipe? Dani told me about it.

I just finished reading "The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie" by Alan Bradley, and I thought it was really great, and something a lot of people here would enjoy. Classic sort of English country mystery, except that the sleuth is an 11-year-old girl. And there's stamp collecting and chemistry and all sorts of other stuff.

Yeah, we just cook up ground pork with onion and a potato (cut up, mash as you go), spice it up with cinnamon, clove, salt and pepper, and throw it in a pie crust. I can give you more specific info if you want, but the written-down family recipe is total BS (as they are) so you may as well google.