• Mon, 09:59: Was googling "Annoying Christmas Songs". Google suggested "Paul McCartney Christmas Songs." *dies*
• Mon, 10:45: The upside of knowing so many Christmas songs is that I know a lot of unusual stuff. (In Latin, but hey.) https://t.co/xSktc3nbar

• Thu, 13:45: RT @ USATODAY: .@ Philae2014 sends back its 1st image from the comet's surface: http://t.co/p1RikBFhgc #cometlanding (Photo: AP) http://t.co/…

• Tue, 13:37: RT @ beatonna: ah, gee, stories like this - http://t.co/u0TCzpd7I8 Soldier reunited with starving girl he fed with his rations
• Wed, 10:21: RT @ esaoperations: RECEIPT OF SIGNAL FROM SURFACE European Space Agency receiving signals from @ Philae2014 on surface of comet #67P/CG #com…

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So I'm going through a lot of my old Harry Potter posts, reminiscing and remembering (hp_reunion is to blame), and I stumbled across this bit from a post back when the cover art for HPB was first released:

To me, the Pensieve-y cover of the Scholastic edition suggests Dumbledore's going to be explaining some important things through memories-- ( Read more... )

Last night I finally got around to seeing The Muppets.  Today I have spent a few hours watching Muppet-related things.

I really liked it! ( Not terribly spoiler-y, but, y'know. )

If you haven't seen Neil Gaiman's interview on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, I highly recommend it.

Link to YouTube

I just read "The Blue Cross", by G. K. Chesterton.  ( How's this for a zinger? )

Just caught up on a bunch of the latest videos for the Muppets.  Loved the one for the premier of Pirates of the Caribbean.  It was so cute how all the women gave Kermit kisses, and when Kirstie Alley gives him quite a tender kiss, she tries to get the lipgloss off, and Kermit goes "I don't care" and faints.

So looking forward to The Muppets.  It' ( Read more... )

It's the little things.

Listened to a couple tracks from Handel's Messiah as I was thinking about putting one of my favorite verses into calligraphy.  (Been meaning to do it for ages and just haven't.  ::smacks self::)  So there goes iTunes through my lovely earphones, and I switch on "Visualization," 'cause I like visualizations...

( Supernova )

So I've seen the latest two episodes of Doctor Who.   I liked "The Curse of the Black Spot".  It wasn't amazing, but I liked the way the Doctor had to keep revising his theories, and it was a nice breather after the massive two-part opener.

"The Doctor's Wife" was fantastic.  ( In so many ways. )