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Yes! I never quite understood modern art. Then I saw his piece on Rothko and it all snapped into place. Rothko's glowing orange canvas at the Art Institute is always a must every time I visit now.

Huge fan of this man. Perhaps not a groundbreaking historian but his gift for narrative is almost unparalleled.

It is a fact that it was plundered in 860 which is a full generation after the initial raid at Lindisfarne. Even if we mess with the time frame, we know that Ragnar's son Ivar the Boneless led the Great Heathen Army to Britain in 865. The show currently depicts Ivar as being about 4. I doubt he'd be leading an army of…

One thing I wish this show would do a better job at is fleshing out the Saxons in better detail. Admittedly, they are supposed to stand in for our own culture in contrast to the Norse. However, late 8th and early 9th century Anglo-Saxon Britain was almost as alien to us as the Vikings. The feuding kingdoms, trials by…

Cars 1 was a bad idea……

He can't be the ring bear. He was never a Bruin.

Only two episodes left to do the Hammond Druthers and Arthur Hobbs stare-down.

Not likely. Gretzky never played for Boston.

This one was up and down for me. The kiss redeemed everything.

YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! AH DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!

Two favorite moments from this weeks episode were parenting moments.

Bjorn and Lagertha are my favorite characters on this show. That boy takes after his mother in all the right ways. There's fire in his belly that will serve him well.

Most hobbit farmers seem quite effective at producing a surplus so there's a market for consumer goods. With wages effectively very high there's money to be spent.

They probably reap the benefits of getting along with just about everybody. I could see them obtaining steel plowshare from the dwarves, draft animals from the Rohirim, allowing them to reap good harvests in the mild and well watered and drained fields of the Shire. Being at the crossroads between Bree and the Sea all…

There's an argument to be made that the inhabitants of the Shire constitute the most technologically advanced civilization in all Middle Earth. The Hobbits wear three piece suits of fine wool, cotton, and silk with buttons and suspenders, use eyegalsses, own mechanical clocks, have a fully functioning postal service,…

When the first movie came out a friend of mine summed it up, "Eight million Hellots just rolled over in their graves."

I'm on the side that eventually they will disappear into their cover identities. With a topic obsessed with the clandestine, one thread that runs through the genre is peace without victors. As a secret agent there is no reward, no parade, no triumph. The war just ends. So while its possible that Phillip and Elizabeth…

The business aspect is most interesting.

One of the details that made that sequence as gut wrenching as it was: facepaint. The young daughter who was murdered went and had her face painted at the fair. While observing the carnage the camera pans to the daughter so her painted face is prominent. When Elizabeth finally gets to Paige who is revealed to now bear…