Per our local weekly rag, Robert Pattinson will be in Portland to film a movie next month:

DIGGORY DUE: One of two Hogwarts Champions in the Triwizard Tourney of ’94, Cedric Diggory is making his way to PDX. Well, actually, the actor who played him in those Harry Potter flicks is, and he’s come back from the dead to play a teenage vampire. ( Read more... )

Okay, I may have cheated a little...


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The Remus Lupins played a few gigs for our local library system and I convinced the whole family to come along for a dinner picnic and see them yesterday evening. I didn't know they'd have an opening band (The Parselmouths - a couple of girls singing about being mean Slytherins and having a crush on Lupin) so the show lasted beyond bedtime for the ( Read more... )

I just discovered Uncyclopedia, wherein people poke fun at things in a sarcastic and superior manner, and I find it funny. Okay, not every entry is funny, but the Harry Potter page had me in stitches.

The series was attacked by religious groups, not because they disagreed with the mention of magic, but because the books were published with a fine ( Read more... )

I managed to make the treacle tart.  Go me!  I managed to find all the odd ingredients, and when I went to make it, I didn't have enough flour.  D'oh.  So, I used 1/2 a cup of whole wheat flour, and it seemed ok.  I had to actually make the dough (all the recipes I found seemed to imply you'd just have some, like you can buy it somewhere already ( Read more... )