Before I forget entirely, a few thoughts on Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows, Part I:

• Is it humanly possible for Nick Moran to be in a film and not look like an Adam Ant groupie? The odds at this point are very much stacked against it.


• Lucius is oh-so-perfectly disheveled and twitchy. I can't quite get over that, or how Narcissa will probably ( Read more... )

'Bush reclaims powers after colonoscopy.'

1. I do not want to hear about the things growing in his colon. That is called TEA EM EYE, o press secretaries.
2. So therefore it must be a flimsy excuse to say that he was busy reading the Deathly Hallows in medical seclusion so that Karl Rove couldn't burst in on him with spoilers.
3. While everyone was distracted ( Read more... )

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With less than a week to go before Pottergeddon*, I feel the need to remind everyone that you also have less than a week for the Deathly Hallows Prediction Stickers to be relevant. After that . . . they'll just look a bit silly†, won't they? So you should print them out now and distribute them to friends and enemies alike.

copperbadge has been ruminating on ( Read more... )

It is oddly reassuring to receive an email from a former co-worker, who apparently is reminded of me whenever:

1. he goes past the Fluevog store.
2. he encounters something in relation to the Harry Potter fandom.

(Regrettably when I last saw him, my knitting skills were only novice-worthy, otherwise I'm sure he would think of me whenever he saw knitted ( Read more... )

Should I say something regarding Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix? I suppose I should, shouldn't I ( Read more... )

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Let us pretend that I intentionally worked on a set of Potterverse icons, and not that my timing is horribly off for the theatrical release of Goblet of Fire. Yes, let's. It's so much less embarassing.


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Sometimes I remember that I have site statistics pertaining to strangehours.com. And sometimes I even remember to look at them, though it's a hubris-inducing activity so understandably I don't devote a whole lot of time to it.

They tell me that Mr. Jeffery Zeldman has bookmarked the Hogwarts Tinies. (In fact a lot of people seem to have, but he's ( Read more... )

Lookit! This arrived in my inbox this morning from Mr. vonslatt:


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