So where does "The Simarillion" sit?

Can get I get a level on the bass and on the treble?

“Shooting Star” was the template for “Into the Great Wide Open”.

Bartenura kosher wines from Italy are available in many cities, even those with very small Jewish populations. The blue bottle Bartenura Moscato is most common since it is sweet and has a pretty big following among non-Jews as well (like Manischewitz had among black people back in the day).

Sleeping pills are the ones that are really dangerous to mix with.

Out my window cool and bright
Fade so slowly into night
Funny how things look the same
Now that my friend Ebin’s changed

Or Mitchie the Kid from City Slickers

Could be worse.  You could have been named Ebin.

Keep up the good work!

Tina is awesome, but often in this movie, she is looking at David like she is totally crushing on him while he is oblivious to it.

It is a type of cheese.

Your local library . . .

In a more positive example of commercializing not-quite-identical music without the original artist’s permission, my daughter has a toy car that when you push the button, it plays a song that is not *quite* the main guitar riff from the The Allman Brothers “Blue Sky”, but definitely has the rhythm, tone, and feel.…

I called up Occam and he says he'll back you up on this one.

Ok, but how should I explain kissing the dead guy when the kids and I sit down to watch Richard Strauss’s <I>Salome</I>?

Pro tip:

Makes me wonder if it was "The Stand" or "Needful Things".

They just haven’t gotten around to radicalizing us yet. Slackers. If ISIS had their work ethic, they would have never gotten out of Al Anbar province.

When they make the movie version of this book, what dark secrets will it reveal about Ms. Orlean? We already know her as a hallucinogen enthusiast and an unindicted accomplice to a murder. I’m afraid of what depredations we may learn of next. Neither the library nor the local homeless population is safe with this…

A round head sewing pin is superior to a fork for pricking potatoes. Deeper, not as wide, less damage to the skin if you are going to scrape the for twice-baked/baked-stuffed.  You can microwave it and the numerous deep vents will steam it fluffy rather than gummy.