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What do you get when two immensely intelligent Tolkien scholars get together for a chat on “metafiction” and philology in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings? Well, yes, something immensely nerdy, but fantastic and mind blowing too! You may never look at the LOTRs
Whenever I ask someone, “Do you like Bob Dylan?” I usually follow that question, if the answer is affirmative, with, “But have you asked Bob Dylan into your heart?” This almost always gets a laugh and either the person will back away nervously saying
Today is Bob Dylan’s 72nd birthday. He, Robert Zimmerman, was born on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota. When asked to label himself in a famous early interview he quipped, “Well, I’d label myself as ‘well under 30.’ Scroll down to
O.C. & Dee is a new ongoing webcomic featured at yaddlezap.com. It’s a humor strip about an extremely obsessive-compulsive boyfriend, O.C., and his fraught girlfriend, Dee, who always seems to come back to the relationship in the next strip despite having ended it in
An online group has created a computer animation that depicts every drone strike in Pakistan since 2004. It is a must-see and a chilling reminder of the legacy of our Nobel Peace Prize winning president. Watch it here.
Three films everyone should see; Eraserhead, Koyaanisqatsi and Gates of Heaven. Ever since I was traumatized as a child when my parents took me to see Return to Oz, I’ve never really been a fan of movies as mere entertainment. I realize now, that