As a comparison, after having seen the movies for "Lord of the Rings" a long time ago, I decided to read the book and watch the movies again after I completed each section of the book. I'm glad I had seen the movies first, otherwise I would have been lost reading the book. Even so, I still had to refer to the 'map' several times to figure out where the characters were. Also because each place had several different names, as well as each character had several different names.
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My darling daughter's boyfriends parents (and an aunt) will be coming down to spend Thanksgiving with us. I rarely cook for anyone but my family (to avoid law suits), but "boyfriend" will probably end up being "husband" at some point anyway, and our visitors will become in-laws. So I'm in the frying pan. The menu will be the same as last year ( Thanksgiving Dinner ) but can I pull it off for 8 people?

My dining table only seats 4, so to accommodate 8 people,...

If I could, I would plaster my walls with these:

http://despair.com/viewall.html

There is now a Battle using the same idea!
Make your own depressing poster!

A while ago I wrote a story based on the theme, "Horror at the Circus". It didn't fair well in the competition, but I thought I'd post it here in the spirit of Halloween.


Falling to pieces.


Mark rolled his eyes. He never liked the dark or freak shows and being dragged to Big Birtha's Traveling Circus for the late show spiked his creep-o-meter to eleven. But he knew when Randy got something in his head there was no changing his mind.
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Without any intention of ruffling anyone's feathers, I want to share this link - because it's funny as hell!
Click everywhere (and more than once!).

PalinAsPresident.com

Only in America (and, unfortunately, right here in TN):

NewsChannel 5.com - Nashville, Tennessee - Tenn. Baby Named Sarah McCain Palin

I bet you thought I was going to preach.