So you’re telling me that, for the price of a movie ticket, I can watch Lloyd Dobler lead a Roman Legion into battle alongside Jacke Chan’s Kung Fu army?

So this is what it's like to be scared stupid.

the one who is lord over the forty and the nine kinds of serpents

A child will lament the presence of sand.

"Would you like to go to the Enchantment Under the Sea dance with m-"

(Head explodes)

I had no idea Raven Symone and Lindsay Lohan were pulling George W. Bush's strings, let alone neo-cons. That's a Disney Channel movie I want to see.

YER A JESUS, HARRY.

Typical HuffulePuff Hat

Thank you very much for your concern, sir, but he does not need your religion, he has science and socialism and birthdays.

Texas should stick to the classics that teach lessons of valor and hetero-normative sexuality. Like the Iliad, where Achilles avenges the death of his lover Patroclus.

Priest collars. Don't judge me. The Thornbirds was really seminal (heh) in my life.

Quit ruining my joke with your "facts."

My wife and I attended an exhibition of medieval torture instruments in Rome. It was held in Renaissance-era palace and was mostly in open-air courtyards...and it was at night, so the whole thing had a pretty discomforting ambiance. What made it even more fun was that David Cronenberg was with us. After a short while,…

$2,700? Mock all you want, but Hammer Pants ain't cheap for a good reason! Soldiers and cops can't be touched in them!

Oh! Here was the thing with lemons: We allowed the rating to take into account both eating raw and cooking/garnishing uses. So the lemon did well on that front.

They did not, however, allow me (and really, it was only me who would care) to rate the lemon for what they called MacGyver uses , i.e. cleaning.

If we're talking raw fruit, then clementines are my #1. There's nearly nothing in this world that beats a good, perfectly sweet clementine.

We should be able to see Jolie's choices, she should be forced to defend them, and then tell us how to get them out of a white dress shirt.

This is one of my favorite regions and periods in history! If you have a good University Library near you, you should go check out Aurel Stein's massive tome, Khotan. It documents his expedition through the Taklamakan in the early twentieth century, and is absolutely fascinating. He uncovered amazing works of art and…

Except that we've passe the tipping point where that's possible, now.