I'm sure someone, somewhere is getting a Redwall movie into production at this very moment. Or, someone is in his basement mashing up G-Force and Lord of the Rings.

"Mr. Garcia, in a scripted bit from the audience, complained that if the bomb gambit worked and the castaways never crashed on the island, that 'would be a real big cheat.' Mr. Lindelof agreed, assuring him that the producers knew that approach would be a cop-out. 'Just trust us,' he said."

Spirited Away
assorted adaptations of the Odyssey

From this and other reviews, I get the impression that this book is less about the science and more about the scientists, and the culture surrounding science at the time. So compared to Bill Bryson's book, fewer chapters about the months spent triangulating Venus and more about laughing gas and sex in balloons. …

URLs in comments become links now? I would have been more careful about separating out that close-parenthesis/comma.

Daniel Radcliffe
Since my only non-Harry Potter exposure to him is Extras and that Japanese game show ( http://www.youtube.com/watc…, I guess he's down in my book as probably an OK dude.

this may look like a double post, but it's actually a demonstration of how similar those invisible ads are.

it really is uncanny
those two empty white spaces are practically identical.

it really is uncanny
those two empty white spaces are practically identical.

I'm not sure girls reach an age where it stops being creepy to want to watch them screw their cousins. Also,

Pandora
Has Pandora drastically improved in the last few years? Because I tried it when it was pretty young and not only did it never have a single good suggestion, but it was actually vaguely offensive as a concept. If it's suddenly playing a major role in curbing illegal downloading, have they started cheating? …

I've got some, too
"What time are you getting out of work?"
—Todd Barry, on wondering what time you're getting out of work

There once was a young Tipperarian
whose movie reviews were contrarian
when drunk, he'd beat wives
w'in an inch of their lives
but gay Austrian jokes? how barbarian!

Those Pynchon books will be a dead giveaway when they take me in for unauthorized letter delivery.

Obviously Tolkien was good at some things and bad at (or simply unconcerned with) others, but it's pretty typical that anything new and significant divides critics and gets largely ignored by the public.

Rowling is very effective on a page-to-page, even chapter-to-chapter basis, but her plots as a whole frequently make no sense, and the wizard world never feels completely thought out. And while Tolkien and Lewis invented the fantasy genre practically from scratch, Rowling's fantasy elements tend towards pastiche of…

I've never actually tried to go to a movie in Bryant Park, I just know that whenever I try to go there on my lunchbreak the grass is roped off, because it's "resting in preparation for" or "recovering from" a "major event", which seems to be their DeLilloean euphemism for outdoor movies. And between the movie…

was it really worth tricking four major wizarding institutions into reviving a century-defunct tournament, forging a registration for that same tournament in the name of an underage student, and then rigging every stage of the tournament to make sure your fake contender wins—all to get somebody to touch an object, any…

I think even the most forgiving reader would have to stop at "start-to-one-chapter-before-the-finish-ass-kicking of the seventh".

The extremely long time period over which the Harry Potter series has been stretched seems to ensure an awkward adult fan contingent.