They did offer me a half-eaten hot dog, but I declined.

How much are they paying you Charlie?

If you've had a Sherlock Holmes in space novel idea kicking around your head, now might be a good time to start writing it.

And The Reichenbach Fallatio.

Can't wait for the inevitable porn parodies.

Today I learned that there is such an invention as fart spray.

This is quite the Smaugasbord of great art.

I really wish we saw more of Beorn in Bear form, or at all really. I liked him in the books and thought he could have been a much cooler character.

I figure wyverns are still dragons. It's like how squares are also rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares. Don't they call him the Great Worm at some point too?

I suppose so, but I have never understood the obsession with classifying monsters into particular types. I guess the mindset is encouraged by stuff like D&D, but it's so foreign to my way of thinking. A true monster like Smaug defies classification, I think.

So I do have to pay off my credit card?

so this, but backwards?

I think I went on this ride at Water World.

Dear Peter Jackson - I adore long movies and prefer the extended Lord of the Rings.. on video so I can get up and go to the bathroom when I want.

Soooooooooo. Stephen Fry was pretty much playing a Tolkienized Melchett, right? Even his underling looked a bit like Blackadder.

Is there a map of how dead we will be based on how close we are to Yellowstone that I can clutch in my lava-covered, dying hands in the final moments?

And what makes you the arbiter of worthwhile-ness and productive-ness?