One thing I haven't seen anyone mention on their journal is that Darren Criss is slated to replace Daniel Radcliffe on Broadway when Radcliffe leaves How to Succeed in Business. (I stumbled on this tidbit quite accidentally, by reading an actual newspaper.) This is, from a marketing standpoint, just about the most perfect casting that could be ( Read more... )

This was my post from last November about the first seven HP films. To be consistent, I will attempt to follow the same format in examining the eighth film ( Read more... )

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When my husband went to pick up the pizzas we'd ordered for dinner (the pizzeria is just two streets north, so it seems silly to get them to deliver to us) he saw a sign hanging up at the pizzeria saying that someone had lost their beloved Persian kitty, Hagrid. The photo on the poster showed a substantial and very fuzzy cat with what appeared to ( Read more... )

Yesterday penny_sieve posted a link to this excuse for journalism.

Let's munch on a little perspective, shall we?

In May 2008, worldwide sales of Harry Potter books were estimated to be over 400 million copies.

Twilight has surpassed The Da Vinci Code in sales, but in February of this year still only had 42 million, about one-tenth of the total sales of ( Read more... )

I will just be out there with this and say that some people make no freaking sense to me. I have someone friended on my RL journal who was asking people on his f-list, what ought to be on a top-ten list of SF that, in retrospect, makes us ask, "What were we thinking?" Of course, fantasy started to come into it, even though the discussion was ( Read more... )

A lot of you (and I'm no different) have been amused (ranging from mildly to wildly) over the last week by the ironically-named Sparkledammerung (since "dammerung" means "twilight"). However, one thing in all of the brouhaha that has made me rather proud of my association with FictionAlley Park, even though I don't tend to find very much time to ( Read more... )

There was an interesting discussion on author_by_night's LJ about stories with "redeemed" vampires and werewolves, and to the question, 'I do wonder how that came about - when the "monster" suddenly grew a human being's face. When the "monster" became okay,' I wrote:

I think that happened fairly early on, not with a vampire or werewolf but with Dr. Frankenstein ( Read more... )

Grrrrr. Some people know NOTHING about Latin.

Dear John and Jo--
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While it is true that there are comparable volumes out there already (such as this one, which appears to have, if possible, even LESS original content than the planned publication of the Lexicon) to point to those volumes as legal precedent is disingenuous; it is possible that there's a lot going on behind the scenes that we don't know, such as the ( Read more... )