JKR's Time interview has the potential to be a little spoilery, so consider before you click. Interesting read, though.

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Back on my mama's retirement home computer for a minute to record some initial impressions of HBP.

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Despite scarah2's valiant efforts at resuscitation, my laptop's connection to the internets ist kaput. So. Here I sit, all clandestine-like, in the computer lab of my mama's retirement home in Issaquah, Wash., where the equipment is new and the users are... yeah. Old ( Read more... )

Courtesy of BoingBoing.net: Some intrepid lass on Yahoo! Korea has posted pictures of herself in her favorite fetish gear. Now that's hot.


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LOLZ, I cannot stop watching this.

Be sure to turn up the sound.

18 Days until HBP arrives and JKR admits Lucius Malfoy is the secret hero of her saga.

Tonight I saw War of the Worlds. I have only one thing to say: Beware the sphincter of death. Wait and see and you will understand. Before going to the movie and after interviewing/having greasy lunch with Gus Van Sant (director, My Own Private Idaho, Good Will ( Read more... )

Boy howdy. It's always startling -- for me, anyway -- when somebody I hope will be intelligent and witty turns out to be.... intelligent and witty. Did a phoner with Joss Whedon this afternoon, and the man is a quip machine. Discussion centered around Serenity, that being the whole point of the interview, but he also popped out with the following ( Read more... )

Tagged like a clearance item! Behind these cuts you'll find an infestation of memes.

( The Book Meme: Tagged by Cursive and Lolaraincoat (who did a tagging gang-bang) )

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Happy Mother's Day to my Lithuanian mama, who survived Hitler, Stalin, my father and me. She is 4'10" and shrinks about an inch a year. These days she resides in a a Washington state retirement community, where she reads newspapers in three languages and mutters darkly about the Republicans and Opus Dei. Back in my punk-rock days, she denied that I ( Read more... )