London photo: doorway to a greener realm
I like to imagine that this portal leads to another world…
Chronicles of Narnia
“Journalist Wanted. No Pay.” ugh (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
question of the day: What White House position will Big Bird hold in the inevitable upcoming Romney administration?
Hey, Mitt said he likes Big Bird. Obviously the President-to-be is angling to put Big Bird in an important job in his White House! Secretary of State? Ambassador to Narnia? And what will the first Avian-American to hold such a position do in the job?
church of awesome: “Go Away, I’m Reading” book covers
I thought the fact that one had a book or Kindle up in front of one’s face was deterrent enough to keep people from bothering one, but apparently this is not the case…
question of the weekend: Should writers be encouraged to write multivolume novels?
Just as how it’s easier to market movies that are part of a franchise or are sourced from material that audiences are already familiar with, so it is with books…
Doctor Who thing of the day: trailer for “The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe”
In other words: Narnia Narnia Narnia Narnia Narnia.
Doctor Who thing of the day: Matt Smith gets naked for Children in Need…
…and teases us with a trailer for the Christmas special…
Doctor Who thing of the day: details of the Christmas special revealed
Mega Doctor Who geek Bill Bailey guest stars, and it sounds pretty Narnia-esque…
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘The Narnia Code’
It doesn’t explain why the books appeal to readers beyond those with a scholarly interest in medieval symbolism. But hey! If ordinary moviegoers and readers can be fooled into thinking this is gonna be like The DaVinci Code but more Jesus-y, who are we to quibble?
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (review)
More like Voyage of the Yawn Treader, actually. Little kids will surely find this collection of fantastical geegaws enthralling — look, a talking mouse! hey, a minotaur! — but as a grownup fan of the magical and the mysterious, I was almost totally bored by this third, and perhaps most tryingly pious, installment in C.S. Lewis’s fanciful spin on Christian mythology.
