*snerrrrrrf*

[cleolinda]

The Potterdämmerung has a date: the final book will come out July 21, 2007. The Order of the Phoenix movie: July 13th, 2007. God help us all.

Something else I found out about the Radcliffe Equus: Will Kemp is playing the horse. As my sister said, "I'm not sure whether to feel sorry for him or not." It's a great move for his career, or what's left of it after Van Helsing, considering that the play is not only one of the great modern works, but also a huge publicity magnet this time around. On the other hand... he's playing the horse, and Harry Potter's riding.

Meanwhile: 'Harry Potter' stage strip stirs storm; alliteration always awesome.

Deaths: Author Sidney Sheldon dies at 89; syndicated columnist Molly Ivins dies at 62.

t4_flirt: Teen accuses record companies of collusion.

Police want 'Prison Break' star charged.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force causes bomb scare in Boston. Note: the light boards appeared in other cities as well, none of whom flipped their shit and called the bomb squad. Furthermore, arrests have now been made in Boston. Over on JournalFen:

keleri: Maybe I'm just an ig'nant Canadian, but could anyone please explain to me why the hell that Lite-Brite picture thing would produce a bomb scare?

ruaki: That's what I'm trying to figure out. But upon reading the article, I think it was because "It had a very sinister appearance," Coakley told reporters. "It had a battery behind it, and wires."

sepiamagpie: Don't laugh. Once, a battery just leapt up and tore out my pa's throat. We had to put it down after that.

NEVER FORGET.


French health minister seeks nap study.

Web site helps name that tune stuck in your head.

BPAL has a series of Neil Gaiman-inspired scents up (Bilquis!) to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

marciamarcia needs your help researching an AP story about renting your first apartment. Email your horror stories to maggie.koerth at gmail.com.

An email from Joy: "I'm an avid lurker at your journal and I know you'll promote communities and such if they are for a good cause. Well there's a little boy here in Ottawa, Canada who is sick with Leukemia and all he wants for his birthday (May 30th) are birthday cards. He wants to be in the Guiness Book of World Records and apparently the record is 3 million. So what we're trying to do is beat that just for him. I've made an LJ community to promote more awareness for him. I was just wondering if you could link to it in your journal shortly? It would be so helpful and greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!"

fadagaski: "Okay, so I never thought I'd be one to ask for free advertising. However, at the request of my dad, can you please take a look at his site. It's for authors aspiring to publish - the idea being that you submit a sample of your work for publishers to browse at their leisure, rather than harrassing/stalking said publishers in the dim hope that they read your manuscript. Anywho, if you think the site/premise is interesting, I'd REALLY REALLY REALLY appreciate a mention in the linkspam."

dakiwiboid: "I'm one of the moderators for 021407, Saint Valentine's Letter Box, a community where people can leave Valentine messages for those they love or just like, even anonymously, as long as they play nicely. Team Cupid does check for rude messages or flamewars, but to judge by our experience last year, most of what gets left in this community is simple, sentimental delight!"

bigeyedrabbit: "Forgive me if I am trespassing on your crankiness in asking this, but if you could possibly mention my friend Ariane Kirtley's project in the linkspam sometime, I would be most beholden to you. In a nutshell, they try to provide water to some of the poorest areas in the world, giving the people there a shot at maintaining some semblance of their traditional way of life. Good people, good cause, and I'm just trying to get the word out. :) Thanks."

And finally, I leave you with: Puppy Bowl III!

Comments

[ter369.livejournal.com]

Language note: Potterdaemmerung needs that "e" to allow for not using an umlaut-a.

Just like "ueber".

Otherwise, they are meaningless words and yes, it matters in German.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Will fix--and I had just finally mastered the umlaut-u, too.

[everstar3.livejournal.com]

I'm actually more excited for the wank that will result from the seventh Harry Potter book than I am for the book itself. This saddens me.

And I must resist buying all of the Neil Gaiman BPALs on principle.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Your icon is lol technology 100%.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

...rather than harrassing/stalking said publishers in the dim hope that they read your manuscript.

Erm, most writers submit a query letter, with sample writing per the publisher's guidelines for doing business. This is not considered harassment.

Stalking editors into the bathroom and sliding your manuscript under the stall door is the first sign of cluelessness about the industry.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I know, I know--probably a better way for the poster to phrase it would have been "rather than leaving it to the mercy of their slush piles." I don't even know if publishers are actually going to browse the site in the first place, but I figure, helping people out with a link can't hurt.

[camisado.livejournal.com]

That b0st0n community is awesome. I went there yesterday to see how they were reacting, and was very glad to see most of Boston isn't scared by lite-brites. I think the key point in this is that they were up in NINE other major U.S. cities, including New York which has way more cause to be paranoid about such stuff. Hopefully the guy who was arrested gets released asap and gets an apology. Yeah, it's fine for the police to be extra cautious, I guess, but arresting the artist who was hired by the advertising company is ridiculous.

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

speaking as someone from boston who has posted in b0st0n, i have to say the experience is far from awesome. the lack of moderation leads to some pretty choice wank, unfortunately.

[gryphonmage.livejournal.com]

I am so excited about HP finally having a release date that I am already plotting who I can drag to a release party. I haven't made it to any of the others, but I want to be there for the last one. Friends O'Mine, beware! I have plans for you at midnight on July 21st.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I'm just trying to figure out the quickest way to get the book (midnight release party? Amazon, which once delivered the latest book a couple of days early?) so I can hole up in my bunker and finish it before the inevitable HARRY POTTER DIES PAGE 953 trolls show up. And then I'll get to watch the internet melt when I'm done!

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Sadly, to me the bomb scare seems to solidify my belief that terror has deeply changed the way America works. When a glorified Lite Brite with a battery can trigger a mass panic, the war on terror just doesn't seem like something anyone is ever going to win.

[by-motorways.livejournal.com]

I totally can't wait for book 7. I'm so supposed to be writing an essay on Charles I for my history lesson tomorrow, but I don't even care. Harry Potter is more interesting, even if Charles I did get beheaded.

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

Did you see Radcliffe on Extras playing a Boy Scout with an unrolled condom trying to get some one to sleep with him? Dame Diana Rigg is in the show too.

[wmetoile.livejournal.com]

Will Kemp from the OMG SO HOT GAP CAMPAIGN (http://www.willkemp.org/videos) Will Kemp? OMG.

All right, I'm too old to say things like that. (Also, one of the funniest things I saw yesterday was Erin, one of the Television Without Pity writers, responding to the nekkid Potter-ness (http://erindailey.com/theredheadpapers/?p=324).) But still. God, I'd love to see that play.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

The very same! I keep hoping he'll have some kind of breakout role, because he's too hot talented just to be "That guy from Van Helsing and the Gap ads."

[entropygoddess.livejournal.com]

Potterdämmerung

*spit take* For the win!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I have to say up front that I didn't coin that--it was in use on JournalFen/Fandom Wank, but I'm not sure who originated it.

Puppy Bowl

[bardintraining.livejournal.com]

*sets TiVo*

[arielchan.livejournal.com]

Mr. Nancy, Spider, and Mad Sweeny perfumes almost make me willing to buy BPAL.

[leila82.livejournal.com]

Eeee Puppy Bowl!!

[koritsimou.livejournal.com]

Puppy Bowl is the best idea anywhere, ever.


And about that birthday card post..... wasn't that on Snopes? As in hoax? or am I thinking of something different? Do I have the Dumb today?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I've heard of a number of similar cases debunked by Snopes, but not this one, so I figured I'd post it until I heard otherwise.

[princessstarr.livejournal.com]

The Potterdämmerung has a date: the final book will come out July 21, 2007.
Shiny. The day before I turn legal.

Although the book's now giving me serious doubt if I want to go back to work this summer. *shudders at HBP stupidity*

[kirsdarke.livejournal.com]

Awesome. It's two days after I turn legal.

[bigeyedrabbit.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the shout-out, Miss. :)

[wumbawoman.livejournal.com]

Will Kemp will be playing the horse, eh?

Man the barrage of slash fic that will be coming our way.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

Man the barrage of slash fic that will be coming our way.

I ran into Comment Pr0n the day the Equus promo photos hit the Net.

Do people who haven't read the play realize there's more than one horse? It's quite eerie onstage, something the film failed at. The first time I saw Equus I'd been in the Student Rush Tickets line. The house manager came out to ask if we'd like to see the show for free by being the onstage audience. Yes! I wound up sitting on the set's bleachers next to a horse in the enormous wire headdresses they wore. Apart from the brilliant script, it was one of the most disturbing audience experiences I've had -- in a good way.

[vampychick.livejournal.com]

OMG.

I'm gonna be in England when the Potterdammerung takes place.

WHEEEEEEEEEEE!

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

It always confuses me when I happen across references to the modern-day Will Kemp, since my first thought is of the Elizabethan comedian and marathon morris-dancer (who is the guy in this icon).

But perhaps I just need to get out more.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Same here. I also have that problem when people talk about Anne Hathaway. Confuses me terribly.

[edda.livejournal.com]

Oh, damn. Molly Ivins? There is no justice in the world.

I saw her when she spoke at my university a few years ago (I'd already graduated but still live nearby) and got an autograph. She was magnificent, a real live wire and sharp as a tack. I basically wanted her to adopt me. It sucks that she's gone.

Hope she's up in heaven with Ann Richards, laughing it up over various legislative antics and tipping back a cold one.

[ellaafleck.livejournal.com]

I'm basically terrified for HP7 because I stand a decent chance of being in an intensive performance program in Austria until 2 weeks after the release. So what if I'm flying home and someone's wearing a "HP dies on page blah" shirt and POOF there goes about 8 years of my life that this...thing has sucked away. I just would really really like to have a copy when it comes out, but if that can't happen, I'll cry. I really will. And I will kill all spoilers.

Yeah, the thing is MONTHS away and I'm already at that mindset. Whatever. I still want to be here to watch the madness and giggle with the rest.

[thegeneralerin.livejournal.com]

That was my worry up until I read the date. I figured it would get released while I was studying abroad in Russia and just be hopelessly spoiled when I got back.

At least I can hopefully get it BEFORE I go to work and read it and not have my boss spoil it for me. Cuz he would, just to be mean.

[inkytwist.livejournal.com]

I like how they didn't take all the wank into consideration when they picked the release dates for the movies/books.

I guess the wankas will have about 8 or so days to freak about how much they haaaaaaaayted the movie and the director was SO WRONG, before they can wank about how much they haaaaaaayte the book and JKR was SO WRONG...

This summer is going to be interesting.

[brittastic14.livejournal.com]

I'm from Beantown and when I woke up yesterday I hear on the news
"terror threats in Boston" I honestly think the reason why we overeacted like we did is because Boston was pwned by a cartoon and we spent a half a million on it.

The End is Near!

[purpleivey.livejournal.com]

So it's official - the world WILL shut down between July 13 and July 21. Start preparations now... ; D

Re: The End is Near!

[nohara-megami.livejournal.com]

*starts stocking food stuffs, coffee, light bulbs....* XD

[msilverstar]

The cards-for-sick-kid thing is an urban legend: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/children/shergold.htm

Also, I couldn't follow the Yahoo link but here's one for the RIAA suit: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070131-8740.html

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I was hoping that specific kid was true--you know, you hear the UL often enough, someone would eventually decide he really did want all those cards. The comm seems to have a good deal of specific information about him, but... I don't know.