The Fredösphere

Here's a FAQ that answers the question everyone is asking.

Yes, Terry, life is unfair.  And Terry has more:  a quote from my favorite essay from my favorite book.  Someday I'll write one of my dreadfully incontinent serious posts on The Protestant Mystics.  Today (a Friday before a three-day weekend) is not that day.

Colby Cosh deserves a box of Turkish delight for finding this confection:

"I'm not buying a Gameboy until they bring out Mere Christianity." I wish I could've somehow worked that into a conversation, but I couldn't. This is a point-and-click style adventure game tied to the upcoming movie (trailer here), but since there's no mouse on the Gameboy this means "walk slowly across the screen and click".

I played a little girl in a dress (Lucy, presumably) wandering in a mysterious snowy landscape, with an "A" button for jump and a "B" button for kick. I was approached by a faun, one Mr. Tumnus, who rapidly broke down and blurted out his story about a White Witch whose spell had been cast upon the once green and pleasant land. I tried to kick him repeatedly in the groin: B B B B B B.  The game tediously refused to acknowledge this attempt.

Note to the producers of TLTWATW:  I already "beloved" the Narnia books.  Your telling me that the books are "beloved" makes me want to stop beloving them.  That's not what you wanted, was it -- to decrease the net total of belove in the world?  Maybe this is an example of piling on, advertising overhype, unintended consequences, all that.  Something to think about, anyway.