07.26.07

Jason Kottke, web designer and author of the well read blog, kottke.org, admitted today that he is shamefully addicted to the Harry Potter novels.

Apparently, Mr. Kottke has become so entranced with the novels that he even clandestinely perused a copy of Mugglenet.Com’s What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Falls in Love and How Will the Adventure Finally End while in a bookstore.

I flipped through a couple of chapters, little kids flowing around me in the aisle, feeling exhilarated (and a little disappointed) that the authors’ theories agreed with mine and ashamed at what I’d become, a 33-yo man with deeply held theories about future plot developments in a children’s book series.

Join the party my friend. It’s all downhill from here. Before you know it, you’ll be a regular contributor to a blog devoted entirely to Harry Potter and you’ll wake up in the middle of the night with another grand theory about how it will all end, and unable to sleep until you’ve posted it on a blog and/or message board to see what your fellow Potter fanatics think of it. If it’s any comfort, at least it’s a sickness with a forseeable end: July 21.

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03.23.07

One woman’s review of Equus

Posted in Meta, Scoops, Humor at 4:19 pm by Headmaster

Not anyone I know personally, but here’s cartoonist Raina Telgemeier on seeing Daniel Radcliffe naked:

What does Harry Potter’s junk look like?

It looks normal, guys. Normal, normal, normal. He looks like a dude. Nothing to stress in either direction, nothing to call the press about. Anyway I was sitting in a balcony, and it’s not like they turn a spotlight on him as soon as he takes his clothes off.

And did you know there is a naked girl on the stage with him? I hadn’t heard anything about that. Or that Richard Griffiths, who plays Harry’s Uncle Vernon in the movies, is actually the star of the play? He’s really good. The whole play was really good. Dan Radcliffe did a fine job in it, even though it doesn’t really give him a chance to be subtle–he yells a lot, but that’s the role. So it was an evening very well spent, and Dave and I pondered over the story the next morning at breakfast, which is always a good sign.

[Via Blog@Newsarama]

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03.01.07

Unintentional Editorial Humor

Posted in Humor at 12:51 pm by Headmaster

Submitted without comment, save one: whom do you think is the better singer, the baby or Daniel?

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02.18.07

Home on the Strange: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Posted in Humor, Art at 11:28 pm by Headmaster

Home on the Strange is a webcomic which recently took on the subject of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The results:cringeworthy hysteria.

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02.02.07

CNN Gaffe

Posted in Humor at 1:37 pm by Headmaster

What does a half-naked wrestler reading a Jerry Lawler book have to do with Harry Potter OR a naked Daniel Radcliffe in Equus?

I have no idea, but CNN made that leap on-air recently. See below (RSS readers, come to the site).

[Via TV Squad]

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10.03.06

Harry Potter and the state of Georgia

Posted in Humor at 5:19 pm by Headmaster

A story I’ve covered previously continues with another chapter (book?).

Harry Potter and the state of Georgia.

Long story short: The State of Georgia heard oral arguments today challenging the Gwinnett County School Board’s refusal to ban Harry Potter from school libraries.

[Via Metroblogging Atlanta]

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