Well, I guess that puts soon-to-be-Mr. Lofty in the 3.7%. He's often told me that he would take my name if I wanted him to. However, I'm a big believer in names that "have a ring to them" and I really like the way my name sounds with his last name.

Yeah, sewing a pillow in home ec was co-ed, and sewing def comes in handy all the time IRL ... but if the movie had been about your <i>brother</i> sewing to save the day, that would have been impressively progressive, less so when it's about a princess-who-doesn't-want-to-be-a-princess discovering that the womanly…

Well, I didn't actually think Brave was that big of a step forward - Merida just swapped one stereotype for the other, never wore anything but a dress, AND HAD TO SEW TO SAVE THE DAY.

And didn't Wolverine fight alongside Cap, too?

Might I also humbly suggest that The Rocketeer join the Marvel/Indy mash-up? Granted he's more 30's than 40's, but he fought Nazis nonetheless, and it's not a big leap between hanging with Howard Hughes and hanging with Howard Stark ...

I prefer the instrumental version they use later on.

Same here.

And this explanation seems to imply that people of color/women are incapable of being cool and wearing leather jackets, or being old or weird or lovable ... nope, just colorful and feminine, nothing else ... without even a qualifier to show that Bricken knows better.

Personally I like the idea of a small town school marm defending her students' right to an education and disguising her identity from the villains with the very instrument used by oppressive regimes to try to erase a woman's sense of self. I think it's telling that she doesn't wear the burka all the time — in a better…

Earthican is clearly the only sensible choice.

$2,000 is half my entire wedding budget ...

Well, as long as we're talking about proposals ...

I just assumed the misinterpretation of signs and/or the manipulation of fanatics were among the many themes on GoT. She might not be an intentionally bad witch, just misled by her god or missing her god's point.

Because 60's. The skirts only remain because nerds love nothing more than stability and fear nothing more than change.

Keith David doesn't get any sci fi/fantasy props for Gargoyles? srsly it was both an amazing show (the first two seasons anyway) and an amazing performance (rawr!)

The Geisha and the Philosopher's Stone

I think you're thinking of "Geisha: A Life" by Mineko Iwasaki, but I also recommend "Geisha" and "Kimono" by Liza Dalby (which are entirely non-fiction and seriously enlightening). I love "Memoirs" as fiction, but I kind of hate Arthur Golden the more I learn about him.

Quick, someone ask George Takei if it's too late to make a Captain Sulu show!

"Well, not animals, really, so much as the scuttling disease portmanteaus we affectionately call 'rats ...'"

avatar revitalized movies? srsly?