Would you welcome the chance to go back to the past ( Read more... )

If ever I wish to propose to a woman ( Read more... )

In youth, I wished that I could fly ( Read more... )

It’s been attacked by giants, mutants, aliens, and ghosts.
It’s sometimes underwater thanks to being on the coast.
The president once bombed it to avoid a bigger woe.
It’s had so many criminals, the good guys had to go.
With these and more examples as depicted on the screen,
You’d think that New York City wouldn’t be a crowded scene.

When I saw the Studio Ghibli adaptation in 2005, it pushed ahead of Spirited Away for my favorite Hayao Miyazaki movie. But for all its popularity on the three big rating sites, I've found a number of people who didn't think much of it. Those people consistently had read the Diana Wynne Jones novel first. I decided I would have to compare it for ( Read more... )

Allison Bechdel is most widely known ( Read more... )

I once read the news that a “psychic” declared
Her competitors launched an attack.
I thought, “If you’re psychic, you knew that they would,
So why didn’t you sneak out the back?”
But that’s when it struck me: If they’re psychic too ( Read more... )

“Jingle Bells” and “Let It Snow” and “Winter Wonderland ( Read more... )

The innocence of children is a widely held belief ( Read more... )

Just why do we have westerns ( Read more... )