Streganona Jones

He also voiced the Giant in The Iron Giant. I mean, come on, guys.

Excuse me, Hufflepuff is near the kitchens.

Whenever Mr. Smuttins or I decide that we need to lose a few, we always recite this scene...

It has some good parts. This is the scene I always remember.

This is why I really like His Dark Materials. Even if you remove the kinda-iffy gender politics (which I do believe are there, but maybe not to the degree that others do) - Lewis’ message is still shite.

I much prefer Pullman’s outlook - everything that the Pensevies (sp?) learn and go through is pointless if they…

She didn’t stay silent. She was speaking up against him back during the primaries, but she stopped just short of saying she wouldn’t endorse (although my impression of her comments then was that they boiled down to, “Not a chance in hell, unless he has a personality transplant”). Now she’s categorically announcing…

You poor lawyers should try watching anything as an architect. It’s rough. The built environment surrounds virtually every character all the time, and if you’re trained to understand that space and its construction, you just see things all the time and in virtually every show or movie.

Even better, you save two lives, not one. You save the life of a dog that you adopted, and you help to give another dog that’s been rescued a place to stay and hopefully be adopted out as well.

When I was like 7 or 8 had a bad nightmare where the villains from Rainbow Bright cartoon were trying to kill me and my family. That would have been an embarrassing way for my parents to die if I had paranormal dream powers. . . .

Let me echo your point about math pedagogy. Everytime I see someone complaining about how they know how to do math, but they can’t understand their third grader’s math assignment, I want to scream.

Actually, my previous snarky comment aside, I was thinking about this over lunch and what really rubs me the wrong way about the typical homeschooling advocacy I hear — this piece emphatically included — is that most of what they present as “education” is stuff that my parents did with little baby…

This is my favorite recent McKinnon sketch from SNL:

Someone check on Jamie Lee Curtis.

It’s some kind of freaky Friday switch isn’t it??

True story: my 70-year-old father (well, he was a couple of years younger at the time) saw MGMT in concert and hated them. When he told me, I was so flabbergasted I couldn’t speak for a second, and then I said “WHY did you see MGMT?” Turns out they were playing and he was bored, so he went to check them out. I mean,…

I love how all of the responses to this so far are from people who haven't read the books. I'm gonna tell you right now: go read them. They are beyond good. Heartbreaking and inventive, and way beyond the simple synopsis that you just read. That being said, I'm not sure if they are filmable, but I would love to be…

I liked her before (esp after seeing her in 6 Feet Under) but now I think I love her.

It probably will, I suppose. And the way I explain it is: older movies are more likely to have not aged well, whereas the newer movies have not yet passed the test of time.