A bold story. It sort of just lays it out there that God can't be bothered to pay close attention to elementary schools.

A bold story. It sort of just lays it out there that God can't be bothered to pay close attention to elementary schools.

Throd Lw'nafh Cthulhu

Throd Lw'nafh Cthulhu

Given the fact that LOTR has hour upon hour (upon hour) of walking, talking trees, how can a little rock elemental dodgeball take you out of the hobbit? It makes perfect sense that, in some way, the very elements of Middle-Earth are alive. Puts a whole new spin on Mount Doom. If you think about it, there's tons of…

Given the fact that LOTR has hour upon hour (upon hour) of walking, talking trees, how can a little rock elemental dodgeball take you out of the hobbit? It makes perfect sense that, in some way, the very elements of Middle-Earth are alive. Puts a whole new spin on Mount Doom. If you think about it, there's tons of…

I'm pretty much with Alexander on this one. He's right about the second film being, probably, the most magical of the three. You've got Beorn, trippy happenings in Mirkwood, lots of Elves and giant spiders, a Dragon, etc…

I'm pretty much with Alexander on this one. He's right about the second film being, probably, the most magical of the three. You've got Beorn, trippy happenings in Mirkwood, lots of Elves and giant spiders, a Dragon, etc…

Oh, both C.S. Lewis and Tolkien had a bad habit of having their bad guys be largely swarthy foreigners that came from the east and possessed strange religious beliefs and their good guys be Anglo-Saxon archetypes of virtue.

Oh, both C.S. Lewis and Tolkien had a bad habit of having their bad guys be largely swarthy foreigners that came from the east and possessed strange religious beliefs and their good guys be Anglo-Saxon archetypes of virtue.

Okay, I took my 9 year-old and will now say that The Hobbit (Part 1 of 9) is fantastic. The kind of complaints I had been hearing were actually the shadow-sides of things that I felt made the film an improvement over the LOTR films. Yes, it was very long, but, as a result, Middle-Earth felt bigger, more majestic. Yes,…

Okay, I took my 9 year-old and will now say that The Hobbit (Part 1 of 9) is fantastic. The kind of complaints I had been hearing were actually the shadow-sides of things that I felt made the film an improvement over the LOTR films. Yes, it was very long, but, as a result, Middle-Earth felt bigger, more majestic. Yes,…

Pfeiffer looks a lot more like a hawk than JJL looks like a virgin.

Pfeiffer looks a lot more like a hawk than JJL looks like a virgin.

It's a bitchin camaro?

It's a bitchin camaro?

I once did it to "Cleaning Up The Town" from the Ghostbusters Soundtrack. Eat that, Death!

I once did it to "Cleaning Up The Town" from the Ghostbusters Soundtrack. Eat that, Death!

They're really putting their fingers down on the modern messiah bit, aren't they?

They're really putting their fingers down on the modern messiah bit, aren't they?