Books
Jezebel tries to find the worst romance hero of the 80s.
A short comparison between two translations of Zafón’s The Angel’s Game.
Manybooks.net: Free ebook downloads.
Promoting coffee by having gorgeous guys read good books to me? Hell yeah!
Comics
If Lord of the Rings was a D&D Campaign: The Graphic Novel. [And related: Lord of the Ringlings.]
Movies
Offensive Stereotypes in Transformers 2.
Politics
News that shape and shake the world.
Religion
TV
It’s Buffy’s Fault That Vampires Are Weak Now.
Completely Different Things
I’m absolutely fucking speechless:
*headdesk*
There, I Fixed It. MacGyver in real life.
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*This* was just in my email: The NY Times debates suggestions for the best kids’ books. They leave out Roald Dahl and Astrid Lindgren, “because the list has to end somewhere”, but they feel the need to suggest the Twilight books and Eragon.
It gets better in comments, but still…bleh.
http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/04/the-best-kids-books-ever/?ex=1262491200&en=4c348be2ffbb12e9&ei=5087&WT.mc_id=NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-0708-L11
This is so so sososo sad. *sniff*