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Holy Crap
It turns out that not only am I not the only one tracking the abominable changes to The Dark Is Rising movie, but I am not even close to the most thorough. Warning: this list of changes from book to movie will crush all the hope you had left in your heart and leave you a ready, nay, a willing receptacle for the Dark. -
You Guys
We have the first one-minute clip from the Dark Is Rising movie. -
More? More.
You may have noticed my great dismay over the upcoming Dark Is Rising movie. You might have thought, "This girl sure is pedantic" and rightly so. Nevertheless! Witness the email I received last night from my sister.
- OK, I just have to let you know. I was watching the Simpsons, and there was an advertisement for a movie. And I said "What movie is
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Catching Up
Well, I can't possibly catch up on the entire Internet since last Friday, so if you posted anything particularly notable, please let me know. For the record, here's what I'll be trying to read through this evening:
- The Comics Curmudgeon
- Marmaduke Explained
- Evil Editor
- Fark
- BPALAnonymous
- Girls Read ComicsAnd whatever else I happen to notice. Ah! ( Read more... )
- The Comics Curmudgeon
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August Chicken
Got a new coworker today! That happens next to never, so it's been an interesting day all round.
From the inimitable wumbawoman: Harry Potter and the Many Faces of Fandom. Only really funny if you know much about fanfiction and the communities that love it.
I had a long post about the OotP movie and another comment about the increasingly-horrific Dark Is ( Read more... ) -
The Dark Is Sinking
They changed the Walker's backstory. THEY CHANGED THE WALKER'S BACKSTORY. Seriously, every new tidbit I hear is somehow even worse than the others.
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Because Other Things Exist
I got this link from cleolinda a week or so ago, but if you have been looking for a reason to get irrationally furious over the upcoming The Dark Is Rising movie, look no further.
I read this series when I was eleven, which is incidentally a much more important age than 13, IMHO. It sets my standard for high fantasy. I can still tell how its themes and ( Read more... )