The Guardian is holding a contest, The Alternative Potter Project in which contestants send in their 300-word accounts of Dumbledore’s death. According to some online betting sites, Dumbledore is the most likely character to die in HPatHBP.

Matthew A. Cohen, writing for McSweeney’s seems to disagree with the bookies in his essay, Things You Can ( Read more... )

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The tres adorable eula_tequila tagged me for this meme.
( The Emancipation of Meme )

I’ve given more thought to Tom Cruise’s recent spate of bizarre behavior--turning movie sets into scientology revival tents, dating a woman who's about half his age and twice his height, his fireworks of crazy on Oprah--and have come up with an explanation for them ( Read more... )

I commented in cleolinda’s journal that I must remember to brace myself whenever I go to imdb.com. Many times I'd found myself shambling over there to look up some innocuous info, only to be confronted by their Sidebar of Doom. A la-la-la venture turned to “Oh my god, not him/her ( Read more... )

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Renée Zellweger and Kenny Chesney wed! Renee sure does like her musicians. I suppose rumors of Chesney being gay are now being put to rest.

Renee's movie Cinderalla Man comes out next month. Oh jess_d_ripper, Opie and Akiva strikes again. Did anyone see the trailer for the movie ( Read more... )

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According to the eye-color calculator, if John and I procreated, there's a 92.5% chance our child will have brown eyes, 5.5% chance green eyes and 1.8% chance blue eyes.

That reminds me of Big Trouble in Little China, I don't remember much of the movie except that the fate of the ( Read more... )

There is a commercial for some sort of medical alerting device that amuses me to no end. An old lady is sprawled on the floor, I think her wheelchair is nearby, I don't remember. She says "Help. I've fallen and I can't get up." For all the urgency and pain in her voice she might as well be talking about the church bake sale ( Read more... )

Just saw Kansas Rolling at our friends' house. The movie is written and directed by Thomas Haden Church, who plays Paul Giamatti's best friend in Sideways. Stoner "comedy" + Road trip plot = Disaster. The movie is only 90 mins. long, felt like 3 hrs. At various point in the movie I wanted to yell, "Just fucking finish already!" but then I'd be The ( Read more... )