Posted in Harry Potter on April 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There’s much speculation going on about the current lawsuit between J.K. Rowling and RDR Publishing about the Lexicon. My newsgroups are all of a sudden full of folks who’ve never before bothered to read the Fair Use clause and are now trying to practice law over the internet. (Since that’s a favourite pastime [...]
Posted in Harry Potter on April 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Amazon’s throwing a contest. The winner gets to go to London for a weekend wherein they will get a chance to visit the priceless Tales of Beedle The Bard purchased by Amazon at auction.
Open to muggles ages 13 and older in 24 countries, the Beedle the Bard Ballad Writing Contest challenges you to creatively [...]
Posted in Harry Potter on November 12, 2007 | 6 Comments »
When news of Dumbledore’s homosexuality first came out (ha!), I had two thoughts, right next to each other. The first was “well, duh.” The second was “Oh great. Now Gambon is going to turn Dumbledore into Richard Dreyfus’ Richard III.”
So it was with a mixture of self-satisfaction and revulsion that I read [...]
Posted in Harry Potter, books, jeannie needs a shooter on November 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This post over at MCB sent me on a rabbit trail back to the original article. Am I upset that JK Rowling is publishing an elitist book which will be available to SEVEN people only? Eh, kind of. But knowing how she works and having seen the Lucas Model in action for [...]
Posted in Harry Potter on October 22, 2007 | 20 Comments »
If you are just now figuring out that a man who wore a purple suit, was unmarried for the entirety of his long life, acted rather flamboyantly and was only described as having an intimately close relationship with a young man might be gay…
Okay.
Posted in Harry Potter on October 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Today’s Daily Mail has a little story on JK Rowling.
The thrust of the tale is that she looks better now that she’s rich. Thanks for that “news”, fellas! Every woman has an innate understanding that she too could look more conventionally pretty with a bajillion dollars at her beck and call.
No, [...]
Posted in Harry Potter on August 7, 2007 | 25 Comments »
Lately I’ve been getting a lot of traffic to this eight-month old post. Given the subject matter, I’d chalked it up to a higher-than-usual perv rate among Harry Potter fans now that the final installment of the book is out.
Finally, though, it seems that at least one visitor saw fit to enlighten me.
The most [...]
Posted in Harry Potter, the Kat'll all have brucellosis on July 24, 2007 | 6 Comments »
These aren’t ALL Potter-related, but some are…so here’s the MORE tag to spare you any spoilers, gang.
Posted in Harry Potter on July 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Short Harry Potter Spoiler Post
Posted in Harry Potter on July 22, 2007 | 26 Comments »
Everyone:
The forthcoming post will be about the last Harry Potter book, and my reactions to the initial read through. This is a spoiler-filled post. Do NOT click on the “More” link if you do not wish to be spoiled. I will also add spoiler space after the “More” link for those of you who see [...]
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