October 27th is also my sister's birthday, so, there's that.

"To the Invisible Jet!"

And artificially drawing the border at the Rhine so he can claim to have conquered ALL of Gaul! "What? That over THERE? No no no—that's GERMANY!"

Plus you have his observations of Celtic culture (druids! human sacrifice! aurochs hunting!) & unusual wildlife (unicorn reindeer!).

So many mullets!

It wasn't Kaiser Wilhelm, it was Cesar Chavez.
Because he picked vegetables.

YOU SHALL NOT PASS

Caesar refers to a cut, kind of—a haircut. Also, his family had that cognomen for hundreds of years before he was born, so the namesake fine-harido-haver was an ancestor from many generations prior.

You're awfully charitable. If this is any good, I'll eat my corona.

Testudo.

Please, no. Not that there's not an interesting story to be told here, but I don't think Marky Mark is the guy to do it.

We took the audiobook of Edward Tulane in a car trip this summer—good story, well told, & I think suitable for Zemeckisization. I'm cautiously optimistic!

I don't remember exactly when I saw it, but I know that it was on TV, so I probably haven't seen the whole, unedited film. Better get on it!

This is why I hate pranks/practical jokes.

I'm getting nothing—blank white space up there. What gives?

Especially the way the slip around after they get through the hole—that's either poorly designed flooring or poorly designed shoes, or both. And also the way the one's belt just falls off.

Yeah, the way Harrison Ford ducked away from it makes me think it was bigger & louder than he was expecting.

That's some nice stuff there, hyperbolic paranoid—thanks for sharing!

Yup, it's a 3rd declension i-stem noun. There are two basic rules for masculine or feminine i-stems, & each rule has two parts:

Well, if you put it in modern terms, yeah, but to be fair, the world portrayed in the books is more like our own ancient world, where girls were typically married off pretty much as soon as they were able to have babies (i.e., at the onset of menstruation). So what for us would be statutory rape, or possibly even…