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| | Re: LoTR v. Harry Potter
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| (...) Yeah, well, I'm STILL gonna go see The Lord of the Rings - I've been waiting (wait, I've run out of toes and fingers!) a long time for this. :-) Bruce (it's not like I haven't read it enough) (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | Re: Saw the movie today! (bit OT)
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| a somewhat fuller review: Thomas M. Disch: _The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World_ I didn't realize how sardonic his book was until I had paid for it. In the first chapter, The Right To Lie, Disch explores how (...) (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | Re: Last Night's Dream
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| (...) (snipped) I have also had dreams involving massive amounts of LEGO Bricks... The one I racall best started with me sat on the bus, going on a somehow familiar street; Then I looked at a store which had the window FULL of Classic Castle sets (...) (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | Re: LoTR v. Harry Potter
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| (...) screens. Maybe, maybe not. Would these legions of consumers have been wearing HP costumes if the movie hadn't been at the crest of a marketing wave since early Spring? I doubt it, though we can never know for sure. In any case, you're (...) (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | Last Night's Dream
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| I had a dream last night ... I was building, per usual, in front of stacks of Akro-Mils storage units, with all of the pieces sorted by type. So far, pretty grounded in reality, right? Well, I then determined what pieces I needed more of, and (...) (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general)
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