Being a movie-loving sheep, am posting the following testimony to my wasted youth.
( almost the whole top 100 movies list meme )

Usually I either have no time, or catch these memes weeks after they have lost their zing.... so I thought I would do the BBC 100 Books thingo now, and report later on my birthday and other recent events. Cut to spare readers the tedium of seeing this list for the 87th time.

( Which of the BBC 100 Books I have read )

Showing how inept I am at the moment, I had neglected to post the answers to my guessing competition for which orginal works inspired the LOTR parodies I quoted on Feb 1st. primroseburrows wins afternoon tea and scones with the LOTR hottie of her choice, for her sterling efforts to identify the sources. The rest of you were either too busy in post-Christmas ( Read more... )

Having been less than mobile of late, I ended up wasting a lot of time scouring the shire, I mean the net, for LOTR humour, and found some tasty tidbits which I could not resist sharing ( Read more... )

*looks dolefully at how long since last update ( Read more... )

Er, no, not dead yet, just tired and lacking time, sorry folks. Not been able to have much fandom fun, although it would be a nice break from RL busy-ness. After all those months overseas, my snail mail was a two foot high pile, there were 1300 emails and hundreds of phone messages..... *guiltily* and I have not yet even answered them all. Hence ( Read more... )

I barely seem to get home from one trip (admittedly, ten weeks overseas is a LONG trip), recover from the jetlag and try to catch up, when I am off again. This time, only ten days away, and only interstate. As for catching up? Mission impossible to catch up completely (sorry to Friends for being out of touch and out of date), but hope you are all ( Read more... )

Impossible though it seems to pick favourite lines, and though it does spoil the songs somewhat, I thought I would select some in honour of Dylan's birthday (24 May). It ended up easier than picking favourite lines from literature (though that will come sometime or other ( Read more... )

Following in the footsteps of others, I was thinking about books with opening lines which grabbed attention - and found that many of my favourites had quite ordinary first lines ( Read more... )