Given that they're setting the story in the Second Age, my first thought was "decadent Numenorean orgy."
To commemorate a past event, you kill and eat an animal. It's a ritual sacrifice, with pie.
Anya ,'Sleeper'
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chrismg - Oct 22, 2020 6:28:40 am PDT #931 of 2236
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Vonnie K - Oct 22, 2020 7:52:57 am PDT #932 of 2236
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
On a more promising note, a glowing review from Vanity Fair of a Netflix miniseries that's dropping tomorrow, The Queen's Gambit: [link]
It stars Anya Taylor-Joy as a chess prodigy in 1950's Kentucky, who's one of the handful of young up-and-comers whose work I'm always willing to check out (also see: Florence Pugh, LaKeith Standfield.)
Toddson - Oct 22, 2020 8:53:55 am PDT #933 of 2236
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I read the book - it was very good. One of the few written by a man about a young woman that struck me as being more realistic than most such.
Jessica - Oct 22, 2020 10:43:41 am PDT #934 of 2236
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The Queen's Gambit
DH and I really enjoyed this.
Consuela - Oct 23, 2020 1:13:29 pm PDT #935 of 2236
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
thanks for the heads-up, Vonnie, that sounds good.
Toddson - Oct 26, 2020 4:29:47 am PDT #936 of 2236
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I came across a review of Rebecca earlier:
Netflix has released a new film version of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca ... It's dreadful! Don't watch it, unless you're in the mood for a really bad movie. Though even as a bad movie, this new Rebecca doesn't do much to entertain. Its choices aren't weird or amusingly bad so much as perfunctory. It does the things that a sumptuous period/literary adaptation is supposed to do to "improve" on a stone cold classic in a way that feels almost insulting, as if the only reason for its existence is that a Netflix executive slapped their hand on a conference table and exclaimed "dammit! No millennial is going to watch a black and white movie from 1940! We've got make it in color, sexier, and more woke!" ... Reader, it is none of those things (well, I suppose it is in color).
As was suggested, it's bad.
Tom Scola - Oct 30, 2020 6:32:29 am PDT #937 of 2236
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Baby Yoda is the hero we need right now.
Steph L. - Oct 30, 2020 6:39:25 am PDT #938 of 2236
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I didn't watch the Mandalorian, so everything I know about it is from social media, and I clearly don't know much, because I'm confused about one big thing: is baby Yoda in the Mandalorian the same Yoda from the movies, who trained Luke Skywalker, etc? Or just a different character, same species? And if it's a different character, why in the hell doesn't it have a different name?
Jessica - Oct 30, 2020 6:42:21 am PDT #939 of 2236
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It's a different character, and officially its name is The Child. Baby Yoda is the fan nickname.
Steph L. - Oct 30, 2020 6:47:47 am PDT #940 of 2236
I look more rad than Lutheranism
It does have a different name! Man, it turns out that getting all my (extremely limited) information from social media isn't as foolproof as I thought it was!