LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAAAAR YOU.

People. PEOPLE. C'mon.

Oh, you and your attempt to bring actual history into it...

But that's part of the issue. You're advancing the idea that art is "better" if it's more "true", by which I assume you mean, "realistic". That isn't really a position that anyone in art history would support, though. "Trueness" or realism can be an artistic goal, but it doesn't HAVE to be, and it isn't a "better"…

One of the unabridged audio books for sale is 11 hours long.

Yeah, I've been saying this for a while now, in many discussions like these. The book is extremely breezy. The result is that it's a relatively small book, which packs a great deal more story into it than you expect. If you started actually listing all the various bits of the plot as well as the transitions,…

My argument is that the words "fake" and "fraudulent" suggest that the artist is trying to convince others that it is real, when it's not. However, the gallery write-up in my link suggests that the artist's intent is to create something fantastical, which is NOT meant to be taken as "real".

Not to mention, JetBlue, Southwest Airlines...

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Or to look at it another way — they appear to be offering a selection of the most highly-populated areas that are also low-lying and coastal, trying to bring home how many people could be affected. It would be interesting to have this for the entire coastlines, but that's really not the point the article is trying to…

I guess my theory would be that in Christopher Tolkien's head, the action in LOTR is stately and majestic, or something, rather than what someone from the last 30 years (post Star Wars) thinks of as "action", which is I recall him being careful to say that what he objected to was that it was "made for 18-25 year olds"…

I thought we did have a quote from him, along the lines of he hates that the films are action-adventures made for sub-25 year olds, or something like that?

I've seen an animated GIF of him saying that line, and to be fair — he says it with a pretty big smile. So at least this time, he wasn't all that angry about it.

Yes, Paramus can go fuck itself and the horse it rode in on. And you know where else? PARSIPPANY. It may be fun to say out loud, but if you get off 287 there, you can never ever ever get back on going north, unless you drive way the hell and gone on stupid back roads up to Boonton or some shit, because SIGNAGE,…

Plus, Rivendell.

If "schwag" stood for "stuff we all get", then that would be nonsensical, since the only acronym you can form from the phrase is SWAG.

Sorry, but none of these beat the other year when they came out with the Kirk/Spock (formatting is deliberate) Amok Time ornament. Because nothing says "Christmas" like a Pon Farr death-match between friends! Complete with musical cues. And they didn't even have Santa hats.

Then I salute your preternaturally accommodating hair! Although, now that you mention that it's hip-long, two things occur to me. One — to get to hip length, I'd assume it's fairly strong hair (a lot of people's hair starts breaking before it will grow that long); and two, at hip length, I'd tend to assume it's that…

It's not just this show, though. It's nearly every show and movie featuring a female action hero. She's going to have long, flowing hair. She's never going to wear it in a ponytail or tie it up in any way. She's going to be crawling through the forest or whatever, constantly inviting it to get snagged and in her…

My first thought was, "but there's a reference to it in a Tom Petty song! when was that? that was only 1989!" ("Yer So Bad" got a fair bit of airplay.)