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Kind of annoyed that this is mostly about The Hobbit, and then mostly about the The Hobbit *movies*. First, TLOTR is not The Hobbit, though the The Hobbit movies made a lot of effort to make it seem like more of an intended prequel. Second, those The Hobbit movies were absolutely… Read More

I need you all to know that this week I broke my months of houseboundedness (due to an illness) in the singular pursuit of a sweet potato pie. My town is overwhelmingly white, and I was unable to travel too far, so I was unsuccessful in my search. Not to make the effort worth nothing,… Read More

Great, now I'm craving sweet potato pie....

Am white and from the Northeast, and will absolutely concede that sweet potato pie is 1000x better than pumpkin pie, and that far too many white people around here are stuck on pumpkin. This is a definite deficit of my culture. I also agree with another commenter that grocery sweet… Read More

Unrelated to the topic of this post, but: Why is there a bagpiper at Clinique?

This is nice. I've been looking through our wedding pictures recently, and I realized that, honestly, there are just far too many. You end up spending so much energy preserving every moment of the day, that it can be hard to live it. The firsthand experience is what counts, anyway… Read More

Do we even know that Snape's memories were wholly accurate? Many of them were decades old, and everyone's memories tend to warp with time to make themselves the hero or victim. Are we sure that he is a reliable narrator? I somehow doubt that Harry's mother, if she was so wonderful,… Read More

Could they have given them realistic clothing, too? Some women do have more chiseled or thin or hourglass body types (albeit, the originals are pretty extreme), but NO ONE'S BOOBS are going to look like these pictures when only a strap and a prayer are holding them up.

Calling BS on that log stack. There is no way that the "tunnel" in the center is holding itself up without intervention - beyond the shape of the logs themselves, there's no keystone.

Second pro-tip: If you are going to buy a hardcover textbook, it is best to do so at the end of the semester, when everyone else is trying to offload their books and, thus, flooding the market. By simple supply vs. demand, the books will be cheaper in this "buyer's market". You will… Read More