Possibly my least favorite month, next to January.

It is at this time of year that I usually try to do something to honor the legacy of Matthew Shepard, but this year it just reminds me that I've been given a job to do and I haven't been doing it.

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Either commit to the theme weeks or make them theme months.

There are more Harry Potter posts coming, but I don't know when I'll have the energy. But I'll get to them; I promise.

I think I'm going to do a Harry Potter week here, because I have a lot of things I want to say about the last book, but if I try to sit down and write a whole essay about it I don't think it will ever get done. So by "week" I mean "however long span of time it takes to say everything that I have to say" but that's not nearly so snappy. So don't ( Read more... )

Theme weeks are kind of exhausting, even when I don't really say anything of any substance. So I'll wrap this one up here.

The final small joy of the week is an installment of the Potter Puppet Pals series of fan videos. It's called "Wizard Angst" and it's basically a super-condensed version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix...at ( Read more... )

Today's small joy comes in the form of icons made by alius_solum and featuring quoteable quotes from Harry Potter fanfictions featured in pottersues' journal which, for those of you not aware, pokes fun at wretched pieces of Harry Potter fanfiction ( Read more... )

Today it was not difficult at all to come up with a small joyful thing to post about ( Read more... )

Continuing with the theme of "things that give me some small joy" week (and I really should try to think of a less clunky title), today I present (in the sense of "post links to")...Teen Girl Squad!...from the good people over at Homestarrunner.com.

I love Strongbad; I love his voice and his idiolect, but when he goes falsetto to do the Teen Girl ( Read more... )

I've decided to do another theme week...or theme couple of days, anyway, during which every day I will post a little something that gives me a little joy, a little uplift of the mood and spirit. And I've decided to start now because for some reason I can't sleep and thinking of all these things I plan to post and giggling really isn't conducive to ( Read more... )

This marks the end of Brokeback Mountain Week. I chose this week because it has special significance. Tomorrow marks the nine-year anniversary of the first publication of "Brokeback Mountain" in The New Yorker magazine (October 13, 1997); this past week marks the eight-year anniversary of Matthew Shepard's beating and death (October 6-October 12 ( Read more... )

I admit that I had some misgivings about including today's topic, but I decided I couldn't devote a whole week to talking about Brokeback Mountain without talking a little bit about the Oscar controversy. Fortunately I don't have a lot to say about it; Crash won; nothing I can say will change that, and I've made my peace with it. I've already ( Read more... )