Michael @ 642 -- what a coincidence! I am currently rereading The Hobbit for the first time in round-about 30 years, in preparation for reading it out loud to my daughter. (We are currently in the final quarter of The Amber Spyglass and Tolkien seemed like a logical next step...) All I remember from 30 years ago is liking it a whole lot, and I'm happy to say that that quality of enjoyment is coming back very strongly.
Perhaps of interest for Hobbit-lovers and Moomin-lovers (and doubly so for me): Tove Jansson illustrated a Swedish edition of The Hobbit; the drawings are online at http://www.zepe.de/tjillu/hobbit/s/title.htm ff.
Have you folks all already seen this Watchmen spoof by Elan Rodger Trinidad? Nite Owl & Rorschach in "Presidential Trouble!"
Can anyone help me identify this melody, which is running thru my head as I read the song of the elfs welcoming Bilbo Baggins and entourage to Rivendell?
http://readin.com/docs/downinthevalley.pdf
Do any of you know of any good writing that has been done on the subject of how we identify, when reading novels, with the author and with the narrator? I have been identifying very strongly with Orhan Pamuk over the last several months of reading his books, and with his narrators and characters as well. (This is not the first time I have felt this way about an author but is, perhaps, the first time I've really stated it consciously.) So now I'm interested to find out if any criticism has been written that explores this process -- thought some people here might know if anyone would. If you're interested, my notes on Pamuk are archived here.
Oh -- reading your last comment, I guess you are not in Lebanon any longer. Oh well, next time.
Missed this post yesterday -- if you are still in Lebanon you ought to swing by Poverty Lane Orchards and buy a few bottles of their hard cider -- it is the bee's knees.
Could somebody please remind me of the name and address of the excellent fiction blog that has been linked to many times from this very site and the comments thereto? I followed links and always liked it, now I can't remember where it is and it's killing me...
Aha! "Hitherby Dragons" is what it's called. Nemmine, thanks!
While you're in Lebanon be sure to stop in at Poverty Lane Orchards and buy some of their breathtakingly good hard cider.
I will miss his comments here. The song in your first link is utterly amazing. Time to go read some of the others.
Life expectancy in the Northern Marianas is 71 years, per capita income is around $10,000, and infant mortality is about 5 per 1000.
Doug, do your statistics apply to all people living in NMI, including guest workers, or only to citizens of NMI? If a good life for NMI citizens depends on immiseration of a guest worker class I don't reckon that is something I could support.
partridge in a perdrix... would that be kind of a Christmas version of turducken?
Thanks for the data -- I had figured (based purely on ignorance and being told this about the Christmas tree) that most of our Christmas rituals were holdovers from Pagan celebration of the solistice -- interesting to know that the stockings at least are from Christian tradition. Also a fun fact about the canes.
If you're looking for conspiracy theorists, a British web site called Spartacus Educational has a page devoted in great detail to the JFK Assassination Debate. I don't know if they are the same as the socailist group called Spartacus.
I have not been around here for a little while -- appypollylogies to anyone who has directed a comment or question towards me and found it ignored. Just dropping by to exhort everybody to go read Hilzoy's latest essay on failures of will -- it is a response to an earlier, Riefenstahl-esque post by Charles Bird on the lack of masculinity exhibited by Rep. John Murtha in his call for American troops to withdraw from Iraq. An amazing piece of writing.
I noticed today that an unrequited seeker after consolation might voice the following complaint: "There's no 'there there' there!"
Here is the earworm for today:
Maybelle Carter is singing,
Chewin' chawin' gum,
Chawin' chewin' gum.
Serge -- no, it just gets cumbersome to read and slow to load.
Here's a story I found via Lawyers, Guns and Money that people here may find intriguing. In the Everglades, a (non-native) python tried to eat a (native) alligator; managed to swallow it and then exploded. Shades of St.-Exupery?
Also -- who else is planning to see "Were-Rabbits" this weekend? I'm very, very excited at the prospect.
PJ, I thought the idea was that the military would enforce zones of quarantine. Want a plot for a dystopian novel? -- there is is nice and wrapped up for you with a bow.
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