Just to, you know, uh, keep track...
Monday, October 20, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
Feelin' low...
Don't know why exactly, but I am feeling down today...bleh. Days like this, my favorite thing would be to go to Borders, slap on earphones, find a cushy chair and read for hours from a stack of assorted books and magazines. Bleh.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Happy Birthday, Bilbo Baggins (and The Hobbit)
On this date, September 21st, in 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien's estimable The Hobbit was first published by George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. of London.
Within the literary universe of Middle Earth, moreover, September 22nd is also the birth date of both Bilbo Baggins and that of his cousin Frodo. I just happened to find the coincidence fascinating.
I first read The Hobbit back in 1977 as a summer reading assignment. It was a book I was aware of because of my early immersion into geek topics like monsters and science fiction, but I had never been driven to read it until then. To say that I loved it would be understating it. I devoured it, gulped it down, internalized it, and that book, along with James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small, gave me a mental picture of England that I would retain for years. I love Middle Earth and all its versions, including Rankin-Bass, Bakshi, BBC Radio, and Jackson, but this one, this Hobbit, is the main one.
Happy Birthday, Bilbo and Frodo. May the stars shine on you.
----------------
Now playing: Jack Johnson - The Sharing Song
via FoxyTunes
Within the literary universe of Middle Earth, moreover, September 22nd is also the birth date of both Bilbo Baggins and that of his cousin Frodo. I just happened to find the coincidence fascinating.
I first read The Hobbit back in 1977 as a summer reading assignment. It was a book I was aware of because of my early immersion into geek topics like monsters and science fiction, but I had never been driven to read it until then. To say that I loved it would be understating it. I devoured it, gulped it down, internalized it, and that book, along with James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small, gave me a mental picture of England that I would retain for years. I love Middle Earth and all its versions, including Rankin-Bass, Bakshi, BBC Radio, and Jackson, but this one, this Hobbit, is the main one.
Happy Birthday, Bilbo and Frodo. May the stars shine on you.
----------------
Now playing: Jack Johnson - The Sharing Song
via FoxyTunes
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Sunday, August 17, 2008
I love this commercial!
I saw this a while ago but seeing the great GE commercials during these 2008 Olympics (Chinese dragon, Greek discus destroyer) brought this one back to mind. If only more entertainments exhibited this kind of imagination. It recalls something I read a long time ago that the best minds of our society can be found in advertising, and this ad fuels that argument.
Sunday, June 08, 2008
"Said the Alligator King to his Seven Sons...."
I had completely forgotten about this until I read Amazing Spider-Man issue 558, where it appears as Dr. Curt Connors's ring tone on Peter Parker's cell phone. Curt Connors, as every True Believer knows, is the one-armed scientist who periodically transforms into super-baddy the Lizard, but who is pretty OK guy when he's in human form. I looked up the lyrics and found myself the video from Sesame Street. Ah, memories...
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)