Have just discovered Celine Dion is my tenth cousin.

Ok, I already knew everyone in Quebec is related to everyone else in Quebec, but it's kind of weird to see the theoretical principle put into practice.

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I saw Narnia yesterday. Excellent movie. I've quibbles with it, but overall, very good. It's kind of funny to read people's posts saying things like "It's unfair to compare it to the LOTR movies." But then my opinion of the LOTR movies only gets lower with time. The movie stirred up feelings about the books that I hadn't had since I was a kid. ( Read more... )

I'm drinking Earl Grey tea and written on the back of the bag:

There's a very good chance that one person who sips this traditional, full-bodied tea will find it all too familiar. And to you we have this to say: Welcome to your new life Earl.I think it's New Age Earl Grey Tea, but this leaves the important question of why the New Age Tea People ( Read more... )

I'm not expecting to like this movie. GoF is not only my favourite of the books, it's probably the book I've read the most times in my life. I'd say I've read it through about 20 times. And there was a whole year when I read bits from it every day. Not because of its outstanding literary quality, mind you, but because I was figuring out things to ( Read more... )

Am having an argument with a numbskull who claims to have read all the History of Middle Earth books and insists Tolkien didn't use outlines. And I thought I was making good progress with the rage control...

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LONDON (AP) - Six beavers from Bavaria were released in western England on Thursday in a second attempt to restore a species that has been extinct in the country since the 12th century.

Woah.

Gentle or not, don't Bavarian beavers still need to eat?

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When dragons belch and hippos flee ( Read more... )

St. Crispin’s day, is it ( Read more... )

And you know what adolescent boys like to talk about ( Read more... )

After months of doing nothing, I wrote a few pages of fic today. This is a momentous occasion, and must be celebrated with due pomp and circumstance. An ice-cream cone might be appropriate, except that I'm trying to lose weight.