Harry Potter fans--have you joined Pottermore yet?  It's FINALLY open to all (although there seems still to be some kind of beta testing going on)--I registered last night.  Very interesting and so much fun to click through and explore.  Among other things, you can go through the books chapter by chapter and re-examine each chapter with new ( Read more... )

To Rachel (whom I know loves her) and Paula and everybody:

What. The. Fuck?  Noooooooo!  There's a BJ store near where I did my kid's show on the Upper East Side and I used to splurge on one of her pretty little sweaters every spring--the yellow polka-dotted sweater I wore to Rachel's shebang a few years ago was hers.  Nooooo!  I love her stuff!

I ( Read more... )

So, Ashley and I saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 Friday night.

LOVED it. ( Here Be Spoilers )

I got my TICK-ets
For Harry POT-ter
La la la LA la [/childish singsong of celebration]

So, I saw Part One last night.  Yesterday was crazy-busy, insanely scheduled--work 9-5, more work 5-7, only I left early for the show.  Rush to get to the show, rush around like crazy because the shirt and pants of my costume were missing so I had to wear the pants I work to work (brown matchstick cords, they went pretty well with my riding boots) ( Read more... )

I'm reading Mark Reads Harry Potter right now, and he's halfway through Deathly Hallows, the chapter after Ron storms out. Someone posted:

THIS BOOK IS A HORCRUX

IT SYNCHRONIZES WITH YOUR SOUL AND THEN STEALS YOUR HAPPINESS

MYSTERY SOLVED

And someone responded:

JK Rowling slaughtering innocents (fictional characters) in order to make herself ( Read more... )

The Ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming.

I read Twilight over the weekend...

...

...and I liked it.

I used to love romance novels in high school and college for their pure escapism--my favorite one is called Royal Seduction by Jennifer Blake. I can't begin to tell you how many times I've reread it--classic Ruritanian story with a Balkan prince who sweeps into Lousiana looking for the ( Read more... )