Jesus as a student at Hogwarts

prompted by Ari's, "I bet Jesus could Apparate in Hogwarts" (in discussing Borg and Crossan's Holy Saturday chapter)

This should have been posted last night, but I was too tired when I got home from class to finish it. So all the "todays" &etc. remain as if it were posted Wednesday night.

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I keep meaning to look into giving blood and never actually doing so, but recently I finally poked around the Red Cross website (Eastern Massachusetts).

So after work today I took the #71 to the Watertown Public Library (well, to the Watertown Square terminus, which is like 2 minutes away).  Wow!  I mean, I was spoiled by MML [ugh, I disapprove of ( Read more... )

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I'm watching/listening to Harvard University Commencement afternoon activities on streaming video, and the President of the Harvard Alumnae Association just referred to "Gaudeamus igitur" as an ancient student drinking song. Who knew?Edit: They recognized the two oldest alums in attendance -- one man and one woman, both Class of 1929, both age 99 ( Read more... )

I don't see a writeup on fandom_wank, but people have hat-tipped amireal, chopchica, jennem, thebratqueen, and zvi_likes_tv, so you can check them out for details and commentary.  [Apparently there is a bit of a roundup at UnfunnyBusiness.]

Basically, there's a Harry Potter RPG over on IJ which titled itself Kristallnacht.  The premise is exploring what would happen if Grindelwald (who is ( Read more... )

Now, I don't have a whole lot of interest in what JKR says happens in her mind in the world she created outside of what actually got into the pages of the books, but I love the blasé-ness of "Oh yes, in my mind Character X is gay" in this interview[I have an actual update post, but that'll be tomorrow, as I'm just online fleetingly before going to ( Read more... )

Work continues to be busy ( Read more... )

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("Restless" Subject line idea shamelessly stolen from Amy.)

It is Neville Longbottom's birthday, and marginalia is celebrating with fic lists.

Kita writes:In an interview about the fashion concious set of Madmen, VK talks at length about how he has none at all. And then shares the following ( Read more... )