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7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +2 points

I just bought a pair and I'm very excited! I have been coveting these ever since I first saw them mentioned around here.

8 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +2 points

Oh awesome, I'm so glad you liked it! I ordered the DVD this week and I'm waiting with bated breath for it to arrive.

8 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 1 reply · +2 points

It's not updating anymore, but I've been working my way through the extensive backlog of The Thrilling Adventure Hour. It's a variety of comedy series done in the style of old time radio shows and I love it.

8 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 1 reply · +3 points

Hey, wasn't here for last week's thread, but just wanted to throw Over the Garden Wall into the mix. It's an animated limited series that comes to about the length of a movie and it's just the perfect combination of lovely and funny and slightly creepy. It's also got this autumnal Americana vibe, so it's perfect for anyone who wants to get into the Halloween mood but isn't up for anything too scary.

8 years ago @ The Toast - Let's Talk About The B... · 0 replies · +5 points

I got about a 150 pages into it before realizing that a) half of what I was reading was just sliding over my brain without making an impression, and b) the German S&M subplot that I'd been trudging through for three days was really dorky. The strongest reaction I had to that book was the relief of deciding that I didn't need to read it any more.

8 years ago @ The Toast - Let's Talk About The B... · 0 replies · +3 points

My parents gave me a copy of The Hobbit when I was nine and were really invested in me liking it, to the point of almost holding my other books hostage, but I just could not. get. into it.

Eventually they gave up and left me to my books about girls going on magical adventures. I gave it another shot when I was seventeen because the Hobbit movies had been announced and I liked the LotR trilogy. It was... fine?

8 years ago @ The Toast - Let's Talk About The B... · 0 replies · +9 points

I read Gatsby in high school and didn't realize for a while that it was supposed to be that one book that everyone best remembers and likes from their English class. I liked it well enough, thought it was better than The Scarlet Letter, and wished that my teacher would stop grading us on annotations because it was taking me out of the book.

Then a couple years later I started college and a solid 40% of the people on my class's social networking site listed it as one of their favorite books and I suddenly knew exactly who didn't read much outside of class.

8 years ago @ The Toast - Confessions of an Ambi... · 0 replies · +2 points

I probably would have been an ambivalent girl scout, were it not for my mom being one of the troop leaders during my last couple of years. As it was, I was always pretty involved with what was going on. We didn't go camping much, since that's not something that sane people do in Florida, but we did have overnights at the zoo and Kennedy Space Center (I got to sleep under a rocket!) and a rather strange field trip to a cigar factory.

8 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +1 points

As far as food goes, the big street foods of Berlin are doner, which is in the same vein as gyros or shawarma, and currywurst. Which is basically sausage with curry ketchup and is amazing. For things to do, there's the Museensinsel in Mitte, which is an island with five different museums on it; I recommend the Pergamon. Friedrichsein has a lot of bars and clubs close to each other. If it's a nice day and you want to do something quiet then there's Tempelhofer feld, an old airport that's been converted into a public park, or the Tiergarten, which is in Mitte and close to the holocaust memorial. There's also a lot of flea markets on the weekends that you can probably find online.

8 years ago @ The Toast - Significant Historical... · 0 replies · +15 points

Nope, not at all alone. It made the picture of Neptune and Uranus puzzling, to say the least.