So, despite having picked up a horrid summer cold, I am still determined to go to the 12:01AM showing of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince tonight.
In honor of that, twitter had a “yo mama” style contest, and here are the honorable mentions in all their wizardly glory:
JanetVarney: Yo momma so fat the Sorting Hat [...]
After my previous post about Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, my friend Matt directed me to the trailer for the upcoming film adaptation:
Holy Simultaneously Grim and Necro, Batman.
That aside, a certain shot caught my eye:
That’s actual Katrina footage, dirtied up a bit to fit the über-post-apocalyptic setting of The Road. You can see the New Orleans [...]
For my birthday, Bea’s Mom got me a copy of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
It had been recommended to me, but with the caveat that it was quite dark, and could very well leave one depressed. Knowing my tastes and penchant for post-apocalyptic fiction (can we go ahead and just call it speculative fiction? ;) [...]
My 2008 resolution to read a bunch of books was a miserable, fiery failure. To my credit, I did destroy my knee (the drugs did not allow me to read), buy a house, get a dog, work _alot_, play kickball, and buy a Wii. I did really enjoy the books I managed to read, I [...]
I don’t remember when this happened, but I still think it’s funny, and wanted to share. Apparently it originally was cycling-related and had a photo, but I’m guessing I didn’t type and/or save that part.
Too bad, so sad.
me: i walked into a fire hydrant yesterday. it hurt. bad.
harley: hahaha
harley: dunbass
harley: er, nevermind
me: way to spell.
me: [...]
So, my new bookshelf came in today. Looks good, but methinks I should have gotten a wider one. Meh.
Well, here’s some pics of my new bookshelf and the current state of my home office. Click on the images for flickr-y extras.
Heeeellooooooo, 2008. I of course wanted to put this up yesterday, never got around to it.
Where do I start? Howsabout a rough outline of some major-ish events since my last post (that should be individual posts themselves):
Reffed the first Jackson MS / Biloxi MS derby bout
Retired from rollerderby refereedom. Am now known as Don’t Panic [...]
So, a couple of new bits of goodness in the Harry Potterverse:
1) I have a press pass to Phoenix Rising: a conference devoted to all things Harry Potter, will fuse the intensity of academic debate with the improvisation of exploratory dialogue, the rhythms of New Orleans with the colors and pageantry of art. The conference [...]
Here is my response to one of Asian Provocateur’s recent posts (applicaple part reposted) that I though some of y’all might like to read and discuss:
Highlight of my weekend was running into Spasticrobot and his wife and having a comprehensive, conspiratorial debate about the end of Harry Potter Book 7. No doubt JK has it [...]
So I went over to Dana’s new apartment uptown the other day. It’s really cool. And like me, she now has a cat thanks to the new roommate. Hers is a white cat names Iris. Iris has two different colored eyes, at least one paw with only three toes, and significantly shorter front legs than [...]
