It’s beginning to look a lot like… interstellar warfare?
Always my favorite two ornaments on our Christmas tree:
Category Archives: Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Daniel Radcliffe is a Tom Lehrer fan
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Ha! I love it! Perhaps in the climactic scene of Deathly Hallows Part II, he’ll take some liberties with the script, and sing “We Will All Go Together When We Go” to Voldemort. (Hat tip: Jezebel, via @SaraLang.)
12 days
With everything else that’s been going on — the election, college football, the start of basketball season & my DU blog project, a busy month at work — I’ve barely been paying attention to the countdown to the theatrical release of Part 1 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, now just 12 days away. But that doesn’t mean I’m… Read more »
It’s a trap!!
Ole Miss really should have gone with Admiral Ackbar as its new mascot. He could have warned them that paying Jacksonville State $300,000 for a guarantee game in Oxford was… A TRAP!!!!!
What’s more annoying than a vuvuzela?
NPR’s Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me! has the answer. Fast forward to 5:50 in the clip below, then “wait wait” for the punch line at around the 7:10 mark. Heh. I’m not always a huge fan of Wait Wait, but that one made me laugh out loud in my car yesterday. UPDATE: And, speaking of vuvuzelas, here’s the trailer for… Read more »
Summary of Monday’s expansion events
Commissioner Dan Beebe to Big 12 athletic directors: “Hold your ground, hold your ground! Sons of Texas, of Oklahoma, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the Big Twelve fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not… Read more »
Nebraska to leave Big 12, triggering college sports armageddon
So say rumors on the Internets. (Hat tip on the LOTR reference: B. Minich.) P.S. To review why Nebraska’s departure will trigger the epic realignment apocalypse, click here. P.P.S. How about some other Lord of the Rings quotes to sum up various players’ positions in this whole mess? Big East: “Are you frightened?” Big 12: “Yes.” Big East: “Not nearly… Read more »
Mental health break, LOTR edition
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Apropos of nothing: I got to thinking, the other day, about my favorite consecutive movie scenes in all of cinema: the Gandalf/Witch-King confrontation at the gates of Minas Tirith, followed immediately by the very best scene in the Lord of the Rings trilogy: the charge of the Rohirrim. (The Gandalf/Witch-King scene was inexplicably cut from the theatrical edition of Return… Read more »
Buffalo Bills fire Dark Lord Jauron
But Gandalf Ralph Wilson lifted up his arms and called once more in a clear voice: “Stand, Men of the West[ern New York]! Stand and wait! This is the hour of doom. … The realm of Jauron is ended!“