Also - this post? Claimed. Go discuss elsewhere.

that david s goyer ghost rider film sounds like it could've been pretty kick-ass

The Friday before my birthday.... I'm getting too old for this shit.

I never have gotten around to reading that... I wonder if John Gardner did?

Oh, I love that lecture/essay/what-have-you. It's definitely influential in why today we look at Beowulf as literature, not just as some historical document. (and Tolkien rather beautifully defends fantasy as a genre at the same time)

If anyone's interested in Tolkien's 1936 essay "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics," it's online here.

I mean like they still aren't, y'know, good. They look like the drawings of someone who is not very good at art at different stages of technical development - so the evidence that this must have resulted from a head injury rather than practice does not seem that compelling. It's not like she smacked her head and…

Shocking news of the day . . . . Rob Bricken expects the new Bat Costume to be bad. I would never have guessed.

Quoted from the Express? Move along now people, literally nothing to see.

This is less impressive to me than people who develop musical talents (or incredible memories, etc). As a former art major, I know lots of people who thought they couldn't draw before an actual art teacher took them aside and explained how to look at things correctly (a lot of them found some serious talent once they…

While I'll wait for the reviews, the trailer does look pretty good.

Star Wars obviously but I'll go with this one as a great moment:

Let's not forget the work week isn't over for everyone yet :-(

You are the first person to ever admit liking Penance.

Now there's an attitude that is far more chilling and far more dangerous than anything specific the NSA is doing at the moment.

You're correct that they may not be the best, but they are thoroughly enjoyable.

Has Selleck aged? I mean, he has, but the man looks fantastic!

I love Tom Selleck. Great actor, great man, and in reality kind of underrated in the large scope of things.

Agreed. Who needs more same-old-same-old, when you can get a new perspective on batman? The kids talking about Batman was from a comic story; I used to have it. Gotham Knight was a gem.

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