Movies Birthday Fellowship 30 Apr 2019 For her fourteenth birthday we watched The Fellowship of the Ring together, just the three of us. We had all the movie-fare laid out you could want including candy, peanuts…
Books “The most famousest of hobbits. And that’s saying a lot.” 23 Jun 2018 Our eldest and I finished The Two Towers on the evening of June 6th of this year. Several moments during the read will stay with me for a long time,…
Books Where You Might Be Swept Off To 8 Oct 201724 Nov 2017 It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off…
Podcasts Textual Ruins – Drout on Reading Tolkien 15 Dec 201415 Jan 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXAvF9p8nmM Fantastic talk by Michael Drout at Carnegie Mellon University posted to YouTube in October of last year (2013). You get phrases like "epistemic regime" - which he does explain…
Books… Exploring the Hobbit 16 Mar 201417 Feb 2015 She hooked me up with not one but two Hobbit-related gifts last year ... The first was the blu ray of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the second was Exploring…
Video Games Cerebrations of the past tense 29 Jul 20113 Jun 2017 Originally posted at GameSpot on November 19, 2007 (Or, recent thoughts I've been meaning to get in here but haven't had the time.) These are not in order of importance,…
