too bad Dom and Billy weren't part of the group.
I know. I know. That would be tape it, show it at parties, make a DVD of it and re-enact it for friends worthy.
Buckle up, kids! Daddy's puttin' the hammer down.
Spike ,'Touched'
LotR - The Return of the King: "We named the *dog* 'Strider'".
Frodo: Please, what does it always mean, this... this "Aragorn"? Elrond: That's his name. Aragorn, son of Arathorn. Aragorn: I like "Strider." Elrond: We named the *dog* "Strider".
A discussion of Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King. If you're a pervy hobbit fancier, this is the place for you.
tina f. - Jan 08, 2004 10:52:03 am PST #1303 of 3902
Kathy A - Jan 08, 2004 10:55:24 am PST #1304 of 3902
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
EW was actually entertaining with Jon Stewart last night. They traded some banter about how his "little film" was needing some help financially, so the studio was sending the troops on the press circuit again to try and get the film somewhere on the box office charts. Jon then asked EW what plans he had next, and instead of pre-plugging Eternal Sunshine, which I expected, he mentioned his hopes to start his own record label. No disgusting testicle stories, or adolescent drinking tales like on Leno.
sumi - Jan 08, 2004 10:55:40 am PST #1305 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
And it appears that Chicago PBS no longer carries Charlie Rose.
Kathy A - Jan 08, 2004 10:58:42 am PST #1306 of 3902
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Sumi, try WYCC (Channel 20)--they've got Charlie Rose on 5:00 pm, 11:00 pm, and 12:00 am today, according to their online schedule.
sumi - Jan 08, 2004 11:00:02 am PST #1307 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
I don't think my cable brings me that station. ( I get a combination of Chicago and Rockford stations.)
Sean K - Jan 08, 2004 11:07:53 am PST #1308 of 3902
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
(she finally listened to the unabridged audio version last spring--she's tried the books and couldn't get past the Council)
A stumbling point for many people, including myself the first two times I tried to make it through the books. I only got past it on the third attempt, at which point I couldn't put the damn thing down.
Kathy A - Jan 08, 2004 11:12:59 am PST #1309 of 3902
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I remember reading Watership Down for 8th grade English, and getting stuck on page 56. It took me almost an entire week to get past that one damn page, but once I finally did, I finished the rest of the book in a couple of days.
sumi - Jan 08, 2004 11:16:20 am PST #1310 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
Looking at that comparison site -- the Saelbeth actor looks downright goofy in real life.
Consuela - Jan 08, 2004 11:23:03 am PST #1311 of 3902
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The council of Elrond is such a hugeass infodump it's hard for a lot of people to get past.
Kathy, re: Watership Down. There's a political blogger out there somewhere with a blog named "Silflay Hraka". Made me spew Diet Coke on my monitor... (Seems to be rather right-leaning, so I'm not likely to read it much, but I love the sense of humor.) Yet another geek shibboleth.
I got lots of props from my coworkers for my not-even-close-to-encyclopedic knowledge of Tolkein history etc. It was fun.
bon bon - Jan 08, 2004 11:28:31 am PST #1312 of 3902
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
EW was actually entertaining with Jon Stewart last night.
I wasn't going to watch last night, until I started watching and saw it was a new one. I was convinced that I'd seen him plugging RotK on TDS before Christmas and so no need to watch. And then I realized-- the show I was so certain I'd seen a few weeks ago was during the FotR junket. Man.