I’ll tell you this, I walked up the hill to Montalcino once, and by the time I reached the wall and gate, I was in no shape to do any invading.

<nerd> One of several things that bugged me about the movie is that Minas Tirith is not actually what fortified hill towns look like. You don’t build tiers of residences down the cliff for your enemy to sling rocks at; it defeats the entire purpose. Edoras was more accurate. <\nerd>

Holy cow. If anything, Ravenna is MORE beautiful than Minas Tirith.

So he is angry because she may have said the attackers were angry at Americans for one reason but they were actually angry at America for some other bunch of reasons? Nope, I still give zero fucks.

Something has to drop off eventually, or filling out forms gets crazy.

Apparently Spain now lets couples decide whether dad’s name or mom’s name comes first when they name a baby!

I met Duesberg back in the 1990s. The strength of his tragically ignorant assumptions was unassailable.

It’s still somewhat sexist, but I prefer the traditional Latin American solution for double last names: Jose Garcia Sanchez marries Maria Lopez Hildago. She remains Maria Lopez Hildago or becomes Maria Lopez de Garcia socially (the sexist part). The kids become Juan and Marisol Garcia Lopez, and either use both names…

Since Berlanti has already announced Arrow’s Mr. Terrific will be gay, I’m going with Felicity’s cute science guy of indeterminate sexuality, rather than definitively straight Diggle.

Wow, Sex Toddlers is playing at that frat? I hear they’re pretty good.

If Jeremy Renner married Adam Levine, would their child be Shia LaBeouf?

It helps to have a mom who was hot enough to date Mick Jagger.

Ironically, Cosmopolitan used to publish muckraking journalists and Jack London.

I find this mildly offensive — I guess it takes Miley to bring home what cultural appropriation feels like and why people just shouldn’t. If Pink had worn this, I would have only rolled my eyes a little.

I liked The Lost Hero and was able to finish Son of Neptune, but Mark of Athena seemed repetitive. I don’t expect much complexity from these characters, but in the third book, I couldn’t keep half the new ones straight because they were so interchangeable. If I were stuck in a doctor’s office with it and had no signal…

I will make a $50 bet with you right now that lab-grown meat turns out to have nutritional disadvantages: less vitamins, more cholesterol, unexpected cancer-causing substances...

How is that? I couldn't finish the Roman series.

Maybe the knife just make you GROW a duster?

I hope “PUTAH!” doesn’t catch on.

Having lived in California in 1997-8, I would say 😓☔️💦💧💨🌊😧💀