Today I read one US citizen commenting that US's role as the force for good, a stabilizing force in the world, has been unprecedented in world history and good both for US and the world.

Since WW2 US has been participating in several wars abroad, and recently Susan Rice, the US representative with the UN, mentioned the possibility of US getting ( Read more... )

I once created the Language Meme and, since this month is the Poetry Month, thought about writing the Poetry Meme.

The Poetry Meme

1) Since what age have you started reading poetry? Which percentage of total reading time do you dedicate to poetry, as opposed to prose?

2) Did you formally study poetry (f.e. at college, school)? If so, did it ignite ( Read more... )

A wonderful meme from Russian lj. You get 3 situations and have to give 3 answers to each, as an optimist, a pessimist and a realist. La_cruz [lj in Russian] asked me the following:

1. JKR confessed that, in her opinion, in reality Bellatrix is a white hat too.
2. Arnold Schwarzenegger expressed a wish to act in the last HP movie.
3. All Arab ( Read more... )

The original meme:

Ask me my fannish Top Five [Whatevers]. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! Some people have come up with some creative ones. And I will answer them all in a new post.

In my case, I'll answer if I can. Have been only in HP fandom.

I have been in HP fandom for more than 5 years and while most people are native speakers, I've seen many others like me, for whom English is a foreign language. I've come into English lj completely by accident and started wondering lately how other people have got there. So I wrote this language meme.

If you do the meme, please, give me a link.

( THE MEME. )

Love book memes and this one seemed quite interesting. These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of 30 September 2007).

1. Bold what you have read ( Read more... )

May be I am alone in that, but why does Bellatrix have to be leather-clad with quite revealing top in the Ministry? Did Voldemort buy her this dramatic outfit after her escape from Azkaban, fulfilling his promise from GoF to reward his loyal DEs beyond their dreams? Exactly for what purpose? Cue: Voldy/Bella fics [more than there are now, I mean]. ( Read more... )

I wanted to do a meme, which would both get people a bit more acquainted with me & most importantly would be interesting to read. So I searched in Internet, wrote some questions myself & created my own except for a couple of stolen questions first meme.

I won't tag anyone, but if you want to do this meme, go for it.

1)  Where did your username ( Read more... )

A discussion on deathtocapslock made me think about the topic -how people become fans, in particular fans of HP. In PS it takes so much time just to reach the school & until that I found the book incredibly boring. As sistermagpie noted: "We know Harry's special from page 2, so there's no suspense waiting for him to catch up. I remember thinking ( Read more... )

Loved sistermagpie's quotes meme. You go here and look through the random quotes until you find 5 that reflect who you are or what you believe. Repost in your lj & invite anyone who wants to to do the same.
Struggling with my indecisiveness, I decided to post The Top 10 instead.

*You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. 
Indira Gandhi (1917 - ( Read more... )