It's called,
Harry Potter and the Death of a Major Character
Cultural Learnings For Make Benifit of Glorious School of Hogwarts
Has anyone caught the trailer for that movie coming out called Epic Movie. It's a parady on "epic movies". Like not another teen movie.
Anyways in it they have this 40 year old guy with 5 o'clock shadow proclaiming to be a 14 year old Harry Potter. so funny!
bah dont over analyze simple fun pulp, the fact it IS pulp and IS fun is all that is relevant. leave the deep stuff to read during the deep times.
If they get kids to read then that's great. I just hope that Harry Potter leads them to reading more books as an adult.
I had my own tastes, which ran to fantasy--Tolkien, Lewis--and then pulp versions of the same--Eddings, Brooks, Anthony, even (gasp!) Robert Jordan.
I have two words for everyone here:
Neil Gaiman.
Who is the god that no one can remember!
Who is the god that no one can remember!
I have two words for everyone here:
Neil Gaiman.
When oh when will they make an American Gods movie so I can bitch about it not being as good as the book?
American Gods wasn't that great of a book. It was okay for about 3/4ths of the way, but the end was a real shit-storm of underwhelming crapitude. Talk about buildup with a fizzle out--I hope Gaiman experiences some impotence for awhile so he can understand how I felt about his book with all that buildup and an embarrassing lack of a proper climax.
But who is the God that everyone forgets!! ARghhh *sob*
But who is the God that everyone forgets!! ARghhh *sob*
Back OT (relatively speaking), has anyone seen this?
Harry Potter: Fraud (http://www.slate.com/?id=2073627)
It's a pretty good article. As a teacher, I remember really bristling when Harry complains of someone giving homework that "there's Quidditch tomorrow!" as if the teacher gives a flaming rat's ass about a sport, and then I started thinking, "You know...he's just a rich jock kid."
Very interesting.
It's a pretty good article. As a teacher, I remember really bristling when Harry complains of someone giving homework that "there's Quidditch tomorrow!" as if the teacher gives a flaming rat's ass about a sport, and then I started thinking, "You know...he's just a rich jock kid."
Agreed - It's business meets cultism in many cases.... Raider Nation for example. And at the professional level, the "sport" is taken out of the equation once teams start buying players from this area and that area.... it makes things seem less chivalrous, no? Such is the fate of my dear Los Angeles Lakers =(
"Anyone see the movie BASEketball? " - love that movie :)
as for nascar being a sport... not in my book, true it requires skill and is competitive but their is nothing phisical about it, without the cars it cant be "played". Thats another point although I can "play" golf or "play" softball, I can't play nascar. As for Imrahil, quit saying that sports arent important man, for the vast majority of people sports are fun and to the minority they are about competition (ie; the one percent of people that get paid to play, or the one percent of people that do it to "impress" their parents).
Also, I just realized my play logic is flawed, I also "play" poker, and that is definetly NOT a sport :)
My definition of a sport is that it has to involve a ball or a puck or some sort of projectile, or else it has to have been around for at least 150 years or so. There are exceptions, of course. I don't think anything, and I mean anything involving guns should count as a sport. It's not a sport if when a person does things correctly, something else ends up dead. On the other hand, I think you can consider paintball a sport. However, like bowling or golf, it's a sport that's about 7 trillion times more fun to participate in than it is to watch.Just to be a smart ass a bullet is technicaly a ball in thus guns can be a sport ;)
I think the most hilarious thing I've ever seen was a darts competition on ESPN. What made it hilarious was that the announcer was acting like he was sportscasting a football game.
"And he pulls the dart back... AND- OH MY GOSH! IT HITS THE 20 POINT FIELD!"
I think they are almost always negative in their presentation of competition. It's not a "healthy" competition it's jingoistic tribalism. They're overemphasized in school, kids think they matter more than jobs or schoolwork. They become an obsession for school-aged kids (and their middle-aged parents who try to live vicariously through them), they encourage aggression and fractious social interaction. I think they should be relegated to "game" status, when they currently have the status of religion.
Speaking of Sports,
has anyone caught the Amateur Curling Championships on ESPN 8?
Sports is like anything else in life. It's not evil on its own, but can be if you take it too seriously/too far. :^)
Well, regardless...it's bullshit for a kid to try to use sports (ones several days off, no less) as some kind of excuse for not doing homework.
im sorry mr imrahil but you sound very bitter about sports. Do you think anything might have biased your opinion.
im sorry mr imrahil but you sound very bitter about sports. Do you think anything might have biased your opinion.
I imagine thousands of kids trying to skive off of homework and citing sports as the reason! ;D
I'm curious about this word "skive." Crazy foreigners and your wacky lingo...
yeah ive been wondering about skive ever since reading the harry potter books. Skiving, snogging, and git all made me go, hmm guess i got to be british to understand.
im sorry mr imrahil but you sound very bitter about sports. Do you think anything might have biased your opinion.
Yeah, I'm a smart kid who did his homework, and didn't like it when dumb kids in sports didn't have to.
yeah serious, our valevictorian was major smarts, all AP classes and aced those, put TONS of work into...
im sorry mr imrahil but you sound very bitter about sports. Do you think anything might have biased your opinion.
Yeah, I'm a smart kid who did his homework, and didn't like it when dumb kids in sports didn't have to.
again with the bitterness ;)
Is this something that I shouldn't be bitter about?
Totally. Like Britney Spears in Crossroads, right?
Harry potter and the naked horny amazon women of gorgeous island.
Now THATS a title. :)
Harry potter and the naked horny amazon women of gorgeous island.
Now THATS a title. :)
Touch.
Harry potter and the naked horny amazon women of gorgeous island.
Now THATS a title. :)
Touche.
Harry potter and the naked horny amazon women of gorgeous island.
Now THATS a title. :)
that is quite the disturbing pic, and what the hell is equus?
which version? the 1977 one says it about a guy who investigates six savage horse blindings that were all done with a railway spike.
ok so uh back on topic, horcruxi anyone? Any speculations on what the remaining ones are? Oh as to the whole dumbledore thingSpoiler (click to show/hide)
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For those who don't want to read the spoilers this must look like a weird post. ;)
It's official:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released on Friday, July 27, 2007!!!
I can't wait!
http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/news_view.cfm?id=97
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I found on another forum (that i am not a member of) something that helps me think that harry is not....Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Any thoughts?
I found on another forum (that i am not a member of) something that helps me think that harry is not....Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Any thoughts?
I found on another forum (that i am not a member of) something that helps me think that harry is not....Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Any thoughts?
Sure, that's a good theory, but my take on it isSpoiler (click to show/hide)
I found on another forum (that i am not a member of) something that helps me think that harry is not....Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Any thoughts?
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you do have to kill someone to create a horcrux, do you not?
You are correct sir, yes.
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Nerds. *emoticon indicating playful jibe*