January 2011
18 posts
Wizard People
Just finished rereading Azkaban. Working through the series for the first time since I read Deathly Hallows. I skipped 1, figured I’d read it recently enough and I didn’t feel like sitting down with the title I was most familiar with.
I think I had forgotten how much I liked Prisoner of Azkaban. Correction; I think I had forgotten why I liked PoA so much, and with the revelations that...
Fantasy drinking buddies: Hagrid and Chewbacca.
“Gandalf, what’s the Elvish for ‘breast’”?
“…Mellon…”
Thank you, Mark, for rescuing me from Country Music.
I should preface this by mentioning I’ve had a couple beers. So this might get, I’unno, sloppy?
I wanted to say something more nuanced than Fuck You, Amy Chua, but frankly, Fuck You, Amy Chua. And I’m not even Asian!
I wanted to give you the benefit of doubt on this one. Your article was linked from Google News for a surprisingly long period of time and the title was so racist...
I finally got around to seeing the South Park 200/201 two-parter. It was infuriating.
Not that they showed Muhammad, no. The only thing I would’ve done differently from Trey Parker and Matt Stone would be to stick him in a burqa. No, what angers me is that Comedy Central censored it, and to such an extreme.
It’s infuriating simply because it illustrates the unfortunate reality that...
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/01/11/jon-stewa... →
If this era has a voice of reason, it is named Jon Stewart.
...and I don't even like country!
I found out today that the place I work is hosting a free concert by some country band on Friday. Some radio cross-promotion thing, apparently. And of course, not a soul in my department (where this shindig is goin’ down) knew a thing about it until a coworker’s husband heard it advertised on the radio.
