( The Adventures of Prince Achmed )

When poking around in a Latin dictionary trying to discover what "sora" (Japanese for "sky," let it be known, when with a short o) could be said to mean in that language, I found an actual case of a city Sora (with a long o) that was a Volscian city. (Since I wanted to use the Volscians, this was perfect.) A little more poking around discovered ( Read more... )

Last week we went to see Prince Caspian. I knew pretty quickly that I didn't like it as much as The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, although I wasn't sure whether it was because they did a worse job of adapting it or a consequence of my liking the book Prince Caspian better than its predecessor. Come to think of it, I'm still not sure, although ( Read more... )

Today we went to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I don't know what the reviewers who complain it lacks energy are thinking; as far as I was concerned, it had plenty of energy, plenty of everything, at least two moments that had me wishing for a sofa to hide behind (although the first was sort of delayed behind "oh holy shit ( Read more... )

( Interstella 5555 )

The other day, someone was reading a Rurouni Kenshin story of mine and wanted to know "Was it usual in the Meiji era to refer to a husband by the wife's family name ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went to a baseball game as part of my church group. I'd never been to one before ( Read more... )

So, given that gas prices have gone past disgusting and soared all the way into obscenity, my sister convinced me that it would be cheaper to just get a Netflix account.

So I did. Day before yesterday.

Today, my first three discs arrived.

( yattering about discs )

What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.

( books )

I was reading through a movie review page, trying to determine how closely the reviewer's taste paralleled mine, and noticed that his (2.5 star) review of Labyrinth began by stating that there appears to be such a thing as "male" and "female" movies ( Read more... )