Nope, Team Shame sounds just about right.

Hugo was a $170m budget with $65m at the box office.

Props.

or giant, like the space soliton that was shown to have moved through the Earth's ionosphere in 2008.

I understand, I'm just being pedantic. ;-P

That's the difficulty of translating Serbian to English: you lose a lot of the magic of the language and it's ability to describe. That aside, I still feel that the novel is beautiful in its depiction of how a simple bridge transformed the course of history for the people of that area.

From Wikipedia:

Here's a challenge: read The Bridge On the Drina and then come back and say Andric is a big nobody.

Ivo Andric won the Nobel Prize for his amazing novel, The Bridge on the Drina. It tells the history of a 500 year old bridge located in eastern Bosnia & Herzegovina. It's an expertly crafted story and was truly deserving of its win. I've actually stood on the bridge he wrote about and I can tell you that having read…

Considering we're supposed to see Gandalf's journey into Mirkwood and Dol Goldur, I am pretty sure it's going to have some dark elements.

We won't even go out with a boom. It'll be a poof of sparks and done.

You could always just go see Shame and watch Michael Fassbender fuck in a movie.

The fiery, exploding stuff raining down on either side of it?

If the axe really does fall on Fringe it will be incredibly frustrating and sad. I really feel like we're in for a huge surprise with the back half of this season which will hopefully reinvigorate fans and newcomers, alike.

LA was actually founded on a massive public transportation system using ground-level trollies. It's why the streets are so wide. Unfortunately, oil companies came in and bought up all the trolley lines and then promptly shut them down, turning LA into one of the heaviest car-using city virtually overnight.

D'oh. Tor is beyond my pay grade.

Any idea of where one could obtain a copy of the unpublished novelization?

Wow. Awesome throwback, re, Escape Velocity. One of my favorite computer games of the '90s.

Biology

But it's not the original music. That's the music from the Dead Island trailer.