Category Archives: Geekery
LotR Reread, Chapter 3: Three Is Company (part two)
Look, I’m back! *pause for amazement* So when last I left the lads, they were sleeping under a tree being marveled at by a fox. They were still in the Shire, so they didn’t feel any need to keep watch … Continue reading
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Tagged Chapter 3, FotR, J.R.R. Tolkien, LotR, LotR Reread, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings, Three Is Company
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LotR Re-read: supplemental
(I’ve been listening to too much of the Mission Log Star Trek podcast, I think – but this is a supplemental post.) (Spoilers if you’re not familiar with the rest of the book.) ‘You ought to go quietly, and you ought … Continue reading
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Tagged FotR, J.R.R. Tolkien, LotR, LotR Reread, supplemental, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings
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LotR Reread, Chapter 3: Three Is Company (part one)
So far, so good. CHAPTER 3 – Three Is Company One of my very favorite lines: “Frodo did not offer her any tea.” Wow – I had this mostly written, sitting out there on my computer. Why on earth didn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Chapter 3, FotR, J.R.R. Tolkien, LotR, LotR Reread, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings, Three Is Company
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LotR Re-read – Stop laughing!
OK. Seriously. It’s been that long? *sigh* Well, anyone-who’s-still-out-there (hi, and thank you!), yesterday was Tolkien Reading Day. And I had just finished what I had been reading. And despite this being what I’ve often seen called “the bad timeline” … Continue reading
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Tagged FotR, J.R.R. Tolkien, LotR, LotR Reread, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings, the One Ring
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How The Walking Dead failed
I ask my followers’ indulgence in a (surprise!) long rant on The Walking Dead. I’m not a horror fan, at all, but after years of listening to my brother and sister talk about TWD I did get into it. The … Continue reading
And Star Trek is 50
Hard as it is to believe, today, September 8 of 2016, is the fiftieth anniversary of the first episode of Star Trek. On 9/8/66, “The Man Trap” aired on NBC. (I believe it was at 8:30 – and as I … Continue reading
LotR Re-read – third time’s etc.
If dropping the ball were a way to score points, I’d be way ahead in whatever game this is right now. But now I’ve joined a buddy read for Fellowship in the Dragons and Jetpacks group (isn’t that a great … Continue reading
Posted in books, fantasy, Geekery
Tagged J.R.R. Tolkien, LotR, LotR Reread, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings
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When I said I was “back”…
Right, so that was a couple of weeks ago already. Time flies when you have no points of reference. So I guess by “back” one could say I meant “no longer a quivering heap incapable of stringing together coherent thought” … Continue reading
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Tagged Back again, Harry Potter, Hogwarts, Potterverse, The Deathly Hallows
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It’s Nikola Tesla Day.
If you just asked “Who’s Nikola Tesla?” I’ll answer once I stop sticking pins in these Thomas Edison and American history teacher voodoo dolls. Actually, no, I won’t tell you who Tesla is – I’ll let the Oatmeal do it. … Continue reading
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Jeopardy tryouts – part two
I didn’t hear much laughter out in the “Pre-event” area, as the Sheraton floorplan calls it, as the Jeopardy coordinators scored the tests, but I hopefully my stupidity got a chuckle, anyway. They could not, we had been informed, tell … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Trebek, Jeopardy, Jeopardy audition, Jeopardy test, New York, New York City
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Stewartry 