The date is confirmed for the super-secret Pittsburgh event I mentioned earlier. It's Sunday, Oct. 17 from about 12:00 noon to 9:00 p.m. If you're available during all of that time, and want to volunteer, please let me know here or e-mail privately ( Read more... )

So CBS screwed up and published what turns out to be forged documents concerning Bush's National Guard record. Regardless, it appears the facts contained in the memos remain above question. Conclusion: Bush is a scumbag who lied and cheated his way to the top, and has now ruined our country. Thanks for playing.

And... right on, Kerry. I hate ( Read more... )

Is there a Harry Potter fan at least 18 years old in the Pittsburgh area that could volunteer to do something really, really, really cool? I'm sorry I can't be more specific, but believe me, you will probably never get this opportunity again. (I'll be doing it for the Chicago portion of said super-secret event.) Gah, I wish I could tell you what ( Read more... )

HPANA has a "Top Sites" list!

http://www.hpana-media.com/topsites/

Pimp your own site. Spread ze word.

(P.S. Account of my super-secret trip to Toronto, Canada on HP Fan Trips 2005 business will follow soon. Stay tuned: same Jeff time, same Jeff station.)

"I'm not dead!" -- from Holy Grail

So, betcha you're surprised to see me on LiveJournal, eh? Eh? Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more...

Really though, I got a chance to talk to my online heterosexual lifemate halogirl8 and started missing LJ all over again (because when I think about Anita, I always think of the fandom and how much she's involved in it ( Read more... )

Circulate heavily...

Another online yes/no poll, this time from USA Today, asking if we should pass a Constitutional amendment denying gays the right to marry.

The yes vote is winning "big time" (in the words of Cheney) right now. Let's do the same job on it we did with the AFA's marriage poll.

Read.

I hope it costs him the election. The ONLY PROGRESS EVER MADE IN CIVIL RIGHTS was made by "activist judges" and mainly at a time when the popular thinking was to the contrary (black rights, women's rights). Of course Bush is going to ask the public what they think about gay marriage. It's about 50/50 for and against ( Read more... )

( Fun little LJ name battle thingy )

Heyyyyy yaaaaaa....

Polaroid officials are warning innocent music lovers not to shake their undeveloped pictures, as suggested by the popular Outkast song:A Polaroid spokesman added: "Almost everybody does it, thinking that shaking accelerates the development process, but if you shake it too vigorously you could distort the image. A casual shake ( Read more... )

Just catching up on some Disney news, I saw that Comcast made a hostile takeover bid of $66 billion. It would make the combined company one of the largest media and distribution outlets in the world, rivaling Time Warner.

phyd and I started joking about the possible combo: The Wonderful World of Comcast, etc... So I decided to have some phun with ( Read more... )