Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

UffishThought wrote:Just watched the Korean movie The Recipe. Not what I expected. I thought it would be a cooking show, but instead it was a serene detective ghost story. Odd, but I liked it.

Wikipedia wrote:Doyle was friends for a time with Harry Houdini, the American magician who himself became a prominent opponent of the Spiritualist movement in the 1920s following the death of his beloved mother. Although Houdini insisted that Spiritualist mediums employed trickery (and consistently exposed them as frauds), Doyle became convinced that Houdini himself possessed supernatural powers—a view expressed in Doyle's The Edge of the Unknown. Houdini was apparently unable to convince Doyle that his feats were simply illusions, leading to a bitter public falling out between the two.

Emiliana wrote:Ha. I've read all of the contemporary ones except 50 Shades of Grey. I also abandoned Heller's Catch-22...I could see why it was such a good book, but it was the kind of good book that I hate, so I quit. Other than that and Moby Dick, I've read all the classic ones.

mic0 wrote:I've abandoned LotR and Catch-22 (both only about one chapter in, so who knows, maybe I'll try again someday).

Violet wrote:Hehehe, collegiate days. It makes me feel so young. Jimmy Eat World was the first CD I bought myself. Panic! at the Disco was a junior high thing for me initially. Still like them both though, so I can't act hipster superior.