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Sunday, July 22, 2007

Posted by Daniel Frank at 4:23 PM

A couple of Potter spoilers below:

My brother makes the good point that the Elder Wand solution (die peacefully so it will lose its power) is a cheat and that "there are Dark Magic practitioners who will seek the Elder Wand within Potter's lifetime". It's actually worse than he suggests since Harry announced that he had the wand to a Great-Hall-full of students and Death Eaters. Fortunately,
the Ministry of Magic has a very strict "One heroic journey/quest per wizard" rule. In fact, that was the real reason Harry Potter was almost expelled in Book 5; fortunately Dumbledore convinced the ministry that all of Harry's adventures were part of one historic quest. Alternately, this will be the plot of Book 1 of "The Adventures of Teddy Lupin".

Given Harry's plan to die peacefully, he presumably does not become an Auror.

I like that Gabe was promoted to vice principal. (Sorry, that's a Kotter spoiler.

The LA Times had the leaked photograph of the last two pages. It was semi-readable and I peaked at parts of it. I interpreted Ron's "I'm famous" joke as serious. I had a semi-theory throughout the series that Ron or Neville would save the day and Harry would get the obscurity he craved.

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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:43 PM

How mediocre was Thimble Theater before Popeye joined its cast? This mediocre.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:42 PM

To celebrate Blue Bell's 100th birthday, the Austin American Statesman has a big shot ice cream expert taste Blue Bell for the first time. Article here.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:31 PM

Speaking of Reason, they note that my brother got punk'd or or jammed or zapped or "scammy flammy mammied" or whatever the kids say these days. He gives his POV in the comments.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:23 PM

Don Surber compares the Live Earth line-up to Dean Martin playing Woodstock. A Corner letter writer notes a missed opportunity ("How about big stars performing acoustic sets from wherever they were at that time. Home, a local coffee house, a small venue, a park, etc...No jets flying people around, no plastic beer cup litter, etc"). And Nick Gillespie notes that one of the performers was in Tipper's "Filthy Fifteen".

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:34 AM

In 1947, Life magazine challenged the popular comic strip artists of the day to draw their characters blindfolded. The results are here.

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Sunday, July 01, 2007

Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:25 AM

One thing I liked about Knocked Up was this: The main character and his slacker friends have an idea for a web site. Now, I, like most web-savvy folk, know that the web concept exists as a website in real life. But I figure that we're supposed to pretend this site doesn't exist and the arc will have our slacker friend buckle down and make that web site concept a huge success. Perhaps there'd be a montage of working-hard scenes with "All Star" as the background music.

Then halfway through the movie, the site is described to Paul Rudd who says "Oh, you mean like MrSkin.com?" I was on the floor.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:24 AM

Can't a fella watch some decent gay porn without running into BDS?

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:18 AM

You remember Farfur, the Hamas knockoff of Mickey Mouse? On Friday, he was killed by the Jews.

UPDATE: Farfur is caught cheating and blames the Jews.

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