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- Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:24 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Guilty Pleasures and Irrational Irritations
- Replies: 689
- Views: 222062
Re: Guilty Pleasures and Irrational Irritations
Irrational Irritation: The term "tween." Or maybe I just find tweens irritating in general and am channeling it all towards the term. I take it as a sign that I am now old and crotchety that I invented the term "tweenty" for collegeish 'kids who think they know it all. ;) I didn...
- Sun Oct 14, 2012 12:05 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Currently Reading / Just Read (Books/stories/whatever)
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 390445
Re: Currently Reading / Just Read (Books/stories/whatever)
I finished The Storytelling Animal, excellent read! Neuroscience, Psychology and the human impulse for storytelling all wrapped up in one piece of scholarship.
- Sat Oct 13, 2012 5:35 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: The Smells in My Kitchen
- Replies: 1671
- Views: 384598
Re: The Smells in My Kitchen
last night we made roast trout with autumn squash and an orangey-pecan-roasted-garlic tapenade. the recipe is from my favorite cookbook for fish, Cod and Country. The recipe suggested Kabucha, but we had Butternut, wish we'd had the tastier kabucha, and I think I overcooked the squash. in any event,...
- Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:09 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Periodic Movie Review
- Replies: 783
- Views: 256093
Re: Periodic Movie Review
Singin in the Rain is still all sorts of awesome and the new bluray is staggering and well done, I've seen it in the theatre half a dozen times and it's always looked good, but never this good.
- Tue Oct 09, 2012 8:41 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Riddles in the Dark
- Replies: 58
- Views: 23464
Re: Riddles in the Dark
hehe, i could never get past like 25% into the Silmarillion, but on the other hand, The Hobbit was a very beautiful read to me. Guess which one holds more literary merit in my opinion ;) That's true for me too. On the other hand, I tried to read the Silmarillion at 13, which is not a very good age ...
- Tue Oct 09, 2012 3:50 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Riddles in the Dark
- Replies: 58
- Views: 23464
Re: Riddles in the Dark
Tolkien apologists definitely defend him; they especially advocate for greater acceptance/appreciation of his merits on literary grounds. They pretty much universally use Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion as the basis of all their advocacy and the Hobbit is mostly ignored. Since the film trilog...
- Tue Oct 09, 2012 3:45 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Periodic Movie Review
- Replies: 783
- Views: 256093
Re: Periodic Movie Review
Argo - 10 of 10 Hell yes. One of the best movies of the year. Insanely entertaining, increcdibly tense, fantastic storytelling, superb acting, great script and stupendous technical qualities, just a tremendously great movie. like Brave, this is better than any 2011 movie (best movies of 2011, were i...
- Thu Oct 04, 2012 4:35 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Periodic Movie Review
- Replies: 783
- Views: 256093
Re: Periodic Movie Review
Looper is indeed awesome. Absolutely excellent sci-fi.
- Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:12 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Currently Reading / Just Read (Books/stories/whatever)
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 390445
Re: Currently Reading / Just Read (Books/stories/whatever)
I find it tremendously irritating that while most of Pern is available on the kindle, the Harper Hall trilogy is not.
If I buy and download the kindle edition from amazon.co.uk can I then load it onto my kindle?
If I buy and download the kindle edition from amazon.co.uk can I then load it onto my kindle?
- Mon Oct 01, 2012 9:02 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Riddles in the Dark
- Replies: 58
- Views: 23464
Re: Riddles in the Dark
I love this trailer, the first, with the Dwarf song about Smaug.
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- Mon Oct 01, 2012 7:45 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Riddles in the Dark
- Replies: 58
- Views: 23464
Riddles in the Dark
so I came across two links today that made me realize we need a Hobbit Thread. The first is some very intelligent fellow encouraging everyone to reread the Hobbit before the movie, because they will be surprised to discover that it is not as lacking in literary merit as the Tolkien apologists (who i...
- Mon Oct 01, 2012 6:14 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: MOCKINGJAY spoilers
- Replies: 58
- Views: 12902
Re: MOCKINGJAY spoilers
So I read the Hunger Games in a few weeks after I started it. I'd already seen the movie. I thought the book, like the movie, was relatively cute. An interesting 'safe' variant of Battle Royale where the protagonist doesn't really have to kill anyone despite being well-equipped with skills that woul...
- Sun Sep 30, 2012 4:59 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Currently Reading / Just Read (Books/stories/whatever)
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 390445
Re: Currently Reading / Just Read (Books/stories/whatever)
I just finished Mockingjay. the end was a bit surprising because characters I expected to die did not die. I think there's a thread for this book somewhere, I should go look it up.
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 3:28 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Currently Reading / Just Read (Books/stories/whatever)
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 390445
Re: Currently Reading / Just Read (Books/stories/whatever)
I think I'm now going to have to kindle the harper hall series. man those books are fun reads.I don't know why I keep reading the Todd McCaffrey/Anne McCaffrey Pern collaborations. They just aren't the same.
- Wed Sep 26, 2012 12:15 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: The Musicals Thread
- Replies: 75
- Views: 21632
Re: The Musicals Thread
first tv spot, 90 seconds, so it is similar to the trailer, but check out that killer dissolve at the end to the famous artwork. Damn.
- Mon Sep 24, 2012 1:47 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: My Life in a Literary Agency
- Replies: 427
- Views: 133958
Re: My Life in a Literary Agency
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TLDR: Sad Garage Sale, [insert name] is sick, Scholars misbehaving.
TLDR: Sad Garage Sale, [insert name] is sick, Scholars misbehaving.
- Sun Sep 23, 2012 4:54 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: The Musicals Thread
- Replies: 75
- Views: 21632
Re: The Musicals Thread
I'm curious how differently they built the sets considering they were singing on set, and how they recorded the sound, was probably a crazily complex construction. I came by today to post that extended first look. They gave us samples of the singing of all the expected oscar nominees (Jackman, Hatha...
- Thu Sep 13, 2012 8:39 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Currently Reading / Just Read (Books/stories/whatever)
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 390445
Re: Currently Reading / Just Read (Books/stories/whatever)
Finished Catching Fire, aside from the disappointment of basically jumping into a very similar formula (and oh my Katniss is stupid if she didn't know how Gale felt, lol) as the first book, the second games were a fascinating revisit of similar material, interesting to see her in a group setting. Al...
- Mon Aug 27, 2012 5:35 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: LEGOs in Your (Read: My old) Library
- Replies: 30
- Views: 7334
Re: LEGOs in Your (Read: My old) Library
Man, a little bummed. The library dropped from a high of 12 to somewhere in the 20s. If every member of that community voted even just once, it would blow every last library out of the water (thus far). Damn apathetic people (in some cases...in others it's lack of computer). Make a QR code that tak...
- Mon Aug 27, 2012 5:32 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Currently Reading / Just Read (Books/stories/whatever)
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 390445
Re: Currently Reading / Just Read (Books/stories/whatever)
I finally started Catching Fire and am also reading The Storytelling Animal, and I'm rereading The Darkness that Comes Before.
- Thu Aug 23, 2012 2:18 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: My Life in a Literary Agency
- Replies: 427
- Views: 133958
Re: My Life in a Literary Agency
Being on the other side of the fence is hard. I'm in contract negotiations right now with WH. These people were my former coworkers, and they're still my close friends, but we're in the midst of some pretty savage back-and-forth right now. I feel the pull of dual allegiances, and I know I need to c...
- Tue Aug 14, 2012 12:28 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: The Smells in My Kitchen
- Replies: 1671
- Views: 384598
Re: The Smells in My Kitchen
Lard makes the best pie crust. Better than butter. Healthier too. (more mono-unsaturated fat and oleic acid in lard). Better melting point for cooking than butter or shortening, more mono-unsaturated fat than shortening, low poly-unsaturated fat than shortening (the really bad s*** to ingest, especi...
- Mon Aug 13, 2012 1:08 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: I am...
- Replies: 133
- Views: 33709
Re: I am...
the watcher on the walls.
- Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:34 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Periodic Movie Review
- Replies: 783
- Views: 256093
Re: Periodic Movie Review
Saw to Rome with Love, one of Woody Allen's better movies, not one of his best, but definitely a solid double/triple.
- Sun Aug 12, 2012 12:38 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: I am...
- Replies: 133
- Views: 33709
Re: I am...
the sword in the darkness.
- Sat Aug 11, 2012 1:51 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Nesting! Decor in Rooms, Apts, houses etc
- Replies: 288
- Views: 68562
Re: Nesting! Decor in Rooms, Apts, houses etc
hmm I think I owe Alea some photos of the new place, our housewarming was last weekend...
- Fri Aug 10, 2012 3:10 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Wedding Planning!
- Replies: 833
- Views: 217542
Re: Wedding Planning!
if you want to see more pictures, just PM me and I'll send you the info on where online they're ensconced.
- Thu Aug 09, 2012 5:00 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: "Turn him loose as a theorist..."
- Replies: 395
- Views: 88098
Re: "Turn him loose as a theorist..."
TG, Well, but of course the human mind is a biochemical SOMETHING. As best as we can currently label it, it's fair enough to call it a computer. From Wikipedia: Conventionally, a computer consists of at least one processing element and some form of memory. The processing element carries out arithme...
- Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:34 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: The Race Relations/Diversity/Equality Thread
- Replies: 586
- Views: 126647
Re: The Race Relations/Diversity/Equality Thread
This is an honest question that I don't know the answer to: does OSC donate millions of dollars to organizations that, in addition to opposing gay marriage, also favor criminalization of homosexuality, oppose gay adoption, and advocate for disallowing homosexuality as a protected class under discri...
- Sun Jul 29, 2012 10:44 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Complete Randomness
- Replies: 2889
- Views: 662309
Re: Complete Randomness
There's something in the music progression leading into the first chorus of Call Me Maybe that reminds me of Never Gonna Give You Up (RickRoll) in a really dejavu sort of way.
- Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:29 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Wedding Planning!
- Replies: 833
- Views: 217542
Re: Wedding Planning!
pictures inna slideshow!
We haven't gotten all our pictures yet, but our photographers did send us this slideshow as a preview.
We haven't gotten all our pictures yet, but our photographers did send us this slideshow as a preview.
- Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:27 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Things that I love
- Replies: 2860
- Views: 597736
Re: Things that I love
Scientology got her? Or Ron Paul, it's hard to keep all the cults separate.I read that as "Audit the Fred" and wondered why Fred was being audited.
- Tue Jul 24, 2012 12:08 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Random things that remind you of PWEB or people here
- Replies: 481
- Views: 198645
Re: Random things that remind you of PWEB or people here
Alea: http://www.wbshop.com/product/code/1000 ... ef=EW0712C" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:13 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Nesting! Decor in Rooms, Apts, houses etc
- Replies: 288
- Views: 68562
Re: Nesting! Decor in Rooms, Apts, houses etc
eight hours of work today, and we worked a lot yesterday on unpacking and organizing the spare room remaining boxes (lots of paperwork put in the file cabinet). just today we got the can opener installed, got the spare room shelves hung, hung curtains in the spare room as well as curtain hold back h...
- Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:10 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Collections!
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14362
Re: Collections!
...and here I was assuming that the instructions were to make your mother into ice cubes. And I thought it referred to Kombucha. I collect DVDs/Blurays I guess, and books to an extent. my only real book collection is of Discworld hardbacks. I have all of them now, and I've managed to NOT start 'reb...