eryn_ and I were talking about the excellent falafel at Karam's in my last post, and it reminded me that this excellent restaurant had the neatest tables: maps of the world covered with a glass table top. The kind of glass top that is part of the table and doesn't slide around ( Read more... )

Non-spoilery talk: The Daily Show DVDs "INdecision 2004" are hilarous. Not having cable, I hadn't seen any of this. Totally awesome. I thank caishaurianne for the intro to the videos of the Daily Show at comedycentral.com! *HUGS*

( this is the image I have of Tonks in my head, spoilers )

As he says in his biography at the LATimes.com, Joel Stein is desperate for attention. And YES! he got it this week with his opinion piece : Hogwarts fans, you're stupid, stupid, stupidI'm not even going to start to sputter about my mental reply to this, but my spouse came in to check on me when I started growling incorhently. This was also in ( Read more... )

So yesterday, jazzypom posed a list of semi-rhetorical thought provoking questions about Remus, Sirius, events in OotP including:
2b. When Harry does the fire in the hearth thing to speak to Sirius (and Lupin was there), what were Sirius and Lupin doing before? I mean, Lupin seemed comfortable - and himself and Sirius seemed cool ( Read more... )

So I accidentally read in the LA Times a little spoiler which I will NOT repeat.( extremely mildly spoilerly speculation on the future Harry Potter books, Star Wars and mythology )

to join in with all the fans on my flist, the new cover is revealed for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince all from mugglenet.com... take a gander at the US as well as the two UK covers.

nice little interview with Marie GrandPre, who does the US covers

(  snipped for mild spoilers and my own speculation )

this is rather interesting (from an e-mail) -- you Harry Potter fans will remember the discussion about wand wood and meanings, and that JK Rowling recently posted on her site that she did take the trees and meanings from Celtic mythology ( Read more... )