Yes. Yes. A THOUSAND TIMES YES. I keep giving copies to friends because it's the goddamn funniest thing ever written. Manages to simultaneously be self-aware and unaffected, and it just gets better and better. It's like Gilbert and Sullivan meets Star Trek.

Thank you very much for this article. As someone who absolutely loves the Star Trek novels (especially the early TOS ones!) I really appreciate having a solid argument for why they're important to me.

My little sister saw Star Wars Episode IV for the first time when she was... oh, about two or three. When Vader comes striding onto the screen for the first time, she perked up and said, "It's the Snooze!" (Presumably she was referring to Vader's heavy breathing.) She was really excited about this, and later professed…

Bless your heart.

Argh, Argh! You beat me to it. :D

I cannot remember where this first cropped up. On Tumblr, methinks. Oddly not done in comic sans, but a step in the right direction. :D

You'd probably enjoy the show itself too! It's one of the funniest things that's ever been on television. :)

Argh, Kinja'd into a double post. :P

Hm. Man, that's a shame. I too am a woman and I don't like it when authors do badly by their female characters. I mean, for pete's sake, we're people too; if you can't write feminine well at least have the decency to treat them like humans. Still I do think I'll give it a chance. Thank you for your warning!

I love this painting no end. Though I do recall from the annotated version of the Hobbit that occupied hours of my time when I was a youth that Tolkien was annoyed at himself for painting Bilbo so large. Seems it made Smaug look too small for his tastes.

Thanks for the response! Just to clarify, the objections I'd heard were less about the presence of sex and more about the length of the scene being such that it became boring. But if there's an actual point to it all and character development occurs, that goes a long way towards justifying the sequence. I'm going to…

I keep hearing it recommended, then going and looking at reviews and finding that so many readers hated the second book. Something about an interminably long sequence involving a sex-fairy. I've also heard that the narrator is unbearably proud and somewhat insufferable. But I kind of want to read it anyway. What makes…

Was that Tom Hiddleston at :45? YES IT WAS! According to IMDB he's playing the Great Escapo! And he has a god-awful mustache! I'm sold on this now. The last movie was so disappointing, but this one... this one I'm digging.

I just cried. Twenty minutes after watching the episode, I'm still crying. He was drinking tea and playing Pai Sho! There was the white lotus piece! He was like an instant grandpa for wee little Korra! BAWWWW!

Can we get a censor bar? Think of the children!

Well, Saul said that if I collected a hundred of the finest Philistine foreskins I could marry his daughter, but being the overachiever that I am I'm shooting for 200.

My mom made me a pair of bog shoes for a costume once! Good times.

And I apologize most heartily to everyone else for this frivolous rabbit trail we're embarking on here.

:) Ah, but you're forgetting the idea of the post-resurrection body, which according to the accounts given in the Bible could do such crazy things as pass through walls and appear out of nowhere in the middle of crowds, while still being corporeal enough to eat (or at least appear to eat) bread and fish and so forth.…

I'm going to be the pedantic one and say that according to Christian theology, though Jesus was only incarnated (given a human form) 2000 years ago, he exists/has existed/will continue to exist as an aspect of God and member of the Trinity for eternity. The first chapter of the biblical book of John states that "in…