Fictional Items I Wish I Could Have

Renly Baratheon’s crown, just because it is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Lucy’s cordial, from The Chronicles of Narnia, because health care is motherfucking expensive. The Pensieve from Dumbledore’s office, because the ability to store my own memories and experience them again would be absolutely priceless. Elven lembas bread. Because…

PokemonGo Book Tag

  I can’t be sure what the very first was, but there are three possibilities: the Nancy Drew books, which an elementary school teacher read aloud to my class; Ramona Quimby, Age 8, by Beverly Cleary; or The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, which I read in second grade. My favorite classic is Tess of the d’Urbervilles, by…

Supplication to the Gods of Television

A show where people watch The Joy of Painting and try to do what Bob Ross does. They should probably be drinking; in fact, the source material lends itself perfectly to a drinking game. Take a drink anytime he paints the indication of something, creates the illusion of something, or tells the audience they get…

Skyrim Book Tag

I got unreasonably excited when I came across this on Zezee’s blog, linked from The Quirky Book Nerd. I played video games as a kid, but with five younger siblings there was always someone fighting over whose turn it was, and eventually—sometime around the N64—I gave it up. I still play Super Mario and Donkey…

Fun with Flags

Ever since my political science course in college, where I was assigned them for study, I have loved geography quizzes. If I’ve brushed up recently, you can give me a blank map of the world and I’ll be able to fill in all 194+ countries (if I haven’t brushed up, I’ll get all the Caribbean…