Tying in the Dating Discussion with LotR Geekout, my first serious boyfriend was a HUGE HUGE LoTR fan. HUGE. He had the books, the poster, he could write Elvish (not sure about speaking it) and I gave him the unabridged book on tapes in the wooden crate thingy as a present.

I would love to know his reaction to the movies, but that will probably never happen.

I have a book he gave me where he wrote an inscription in Elvish (and then translated it), hopefully the book is packed away somewhere. It's a copy of The Book of the Dun Cow, which he loved for reasons I forget, but gave it to me as a present with a mushy inscription.

Oh, my, that Radcliffe boy is ADORABLE.

ZOMG, how cute is that? Love that Radcliffe kid.

How charming and sweet. And Danielle wrote a nice article, good on her.

Wow, got tangled up in tolkien there for a bit.

omnis: the idea of a shop cat terrifies me. I mean, i know how many times my cats tangle themselves up in my feet and i don't generally walk around my flat carrying power tools. I shudder to think of the havoc a cat could wreak upon a scene shop. I suspect she is biding her time, waiting for the best possible time to strike. I recommend you stay far, far away from that place.

Ooooh, i just signed up for a book club! Now all i have to do is re-read _The Name of the Rose_ in two weeks. meep! Got through one chapter (i've read the book twice before) and all i can think is: "have i EVER read this before? because this all seems totally new!" It's like randomly flipping through the AEA rulebook during a boring rehearsal. I keep stumbling upon things that i SHOULD know and OUGHT to remember...but...total blank! Maybe it's a different translation?

Oh, good book. It's got an awful lot in it, I'm not surprised you don't remember it all. Eco's dense.

Very dense! But I liked The Name of the Rose, for the most part. Foucault's Pendulum, on the other hand, could have stood to lose 200 pages or so.

I love that book. Not the least because I was reading it on the train as I backpacked through Europe.

That sounds so romantic and intellectual. I read it for a class.

Foucault's Pendulum, on the other hand, could have stood to lose 200 pages or so.

Nuh uh. Foucault's Pendulum is pretty much perfect. I am inordinately fond of Eco in general and Foucault is my favorite.

Longline strapless bra -- I've usually had the best luck for stuff like that at smaller local stores, rather than chains. They usually have a much better inventory and salespeople who really know what they're doing.