The Rake's Song is the Old Brown Shoe of the Decemberists' repertoire.

I think you're all overestimating Potterfen's shame threshholds and underestimating the pleasure of a healthy breeze 'round the privates.

There was a Jedi at my showing last night, which delighted me. I was dressed as a Death Eater, but apparently someone mistook me for one of the Nazgul. Yay?

Me too. I saw it at midnight and was surprised and delighted by how good it was. It was much more fun to watch than the book was to read.

BBC Sherlock won a BAFTA for best drama. It's both mainstream and popular. If anyone is going to be the obscure indie band devotees of the Sherlock world, it's apologists for the misbegotten second episode, The Blind Banker.

~points at epochoellipse~ SWEAR!

It's high time we had a good llook at the squalid world of the marginalized Heffelump and Woozle population of the Hundred Acre Woods who are forced to steal honey in order to survive.

It's Hundred Acre GOLD!

The palm civets are annoyed that the disease in question isn't SARS.

As much as I like the sentiment, I cannot stop your demise by cancerAvianFlu.

~eats gillyweed~

I've never been raped but I take huge offense on behalf of people who have been raped and plan to have all my little friends write nasty things about Sean O'Neal far and wide.

So you don't see the forest-wandering scenes as signs of bad pacing frequently punctuated by "OMG I just realized that-" moments, interminable plot exposition, and inexplicably uttering Voldemort's name to get the plot moving? The whole world is built on fantasy and school-story tropes. Removing the story from the…

And we did get the hugely awkward Nick Cave dance party in part 1, which was pretty much worth the cost of the ticket right there.

That's a relief!
And here I was worried that the weakness of the last book would keep people from seeing this.

And the "oo" in her name remind us of why she was hired.

There's a nice meta joke about ACD's obsession with the supernatural and they attempt to expand Irene Adler's role, but the movie never rises above Holmes-inspired steampunk fluff. RDJ's Holmes is a caricature of a caricature who at least gets fun special effects. Jude Law was perfectly cast as Watson, but there's…

*sigh*
If only they'd stuck to the plots of the stories, like "A Study in Scarlet." They wouldn't seem nearly so silly.

OMG! While you're at it you should look into the similarities between Gaiman's "Graveyard Book" and Kipling's "The Jungle Book!"

As long as I get my Chester 5000 XYV, I think I'll be OK with the new regime.