Today I was walking back to campus from some errands downtown when a couple of young fellows stopped and one said "Pardon me, sir; is it true that you are capable of casting magical spells ( Read more... )

Ron Weasley walked into the Gryffindor common room, carrying a cardboard box tied with twine. "A package from my family!" he announced. "I wonder what it could be ( Read more... )

"Think when we talk of of horses, that you see them..."I adore Shakespeare's prologue to Henry V. He understood so well the role of the audience's imagination in filling in the details that the medium cannot ( Read more... )

HARRY POTTER vs SCOOBY DOO:

"Why, there was never any wizard school after all! It was all just Old Man Dumbledore trying to keep folks away from the ruined castle so they wouldn't find his bootleg butterbeer operation!"

"Alas! And I would've gotten away with it if it weren't for you darn muggles!"

Dickens Fair, and everything that goes on therein, is the truest real-world example I've ever known of "bigger on the inside." Imagination turns sawdust into snow; booths grow into buildings, aisles widen to streets, curtained stages become music-halls, and by some theatrical miracle a warehouse is transformed into a city.

Why do we always come here? I guess we'll never know.
It's like some kind of torture to have to watch the show!

So why are Statler and Waldorf so cranky and snarky all the time? And why do they keep coming back? They've obviously been around for quite a while. Their closeness suggests a lifelong friendship, and their sense of humor indicates a ( Read more... )

One of the group activities at today's end-of-the-year staff meeting involved writing about an individual accomplishment from the past year. I struggled to think of something specific and eventually wrote ( Read more... )

Types of tea that sound like monsters from Dwarf Fortress ( Read more... )

Did I ever tell you about the worst rain I ever saw ( Read more... )

This is the America I remember; the America of big cities and strange frontier and tall ships and taller buildings and clever farmers and Yankee ingenuity; the America where everything is new and everything is big and you can keep your old folk heroes because we have new folk heroes here. This is an America I could be proud of.

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