Spoilers are the greatest fear for many Harry Potter fans. They’ve waited so long to get the final book, and they can’t bear to hear a word about it unless it’s from Jo Rowling herself. But the book has, of course, started to leak. Pictures abound of a mysterious man holding what he claims to [...]
The New York Times has a piece on Jim Dale, who reads the Harry Potter audiobooks. Man, Dale must have positively reeked of Felix Felicis the day he got that gig. He’s a stage actor who had never before done a published audiobook (though he’d done one that hadn’t been released). Now look at my [...]
My name’s Gina Elliott, and I’m a Harry Potter fan. A massive Harry Potter fan. In fact, I work at a Harry Potter fan site, The Leaky Cauldron. I’m part of a volunteer staff of over two hundred people, all of whom work tirelessly to create the best Harry Potter experience possible for the millions [...]
A fair number of people e-mailed me over the weekend to point out to me 1) that I am a horrible person, and 2) that I got the story wrong on the lolcats meme.
Here it is.
(This week’s Time comes with a mini-essay by me about Harry Potter and What It All Means. Because this Potter fellow just isn’t getting his due in the press — damn that biased, death-eating MSM! The slot for the piece in the mag is fairly short, so I’m going to post the unedited, extended-play version [...]
In the journalism trade — which I intermittently practice — revealing the boring making-of details behind a product is known as “making sausages.” It’s a Bismarck thing, yo. Once you’ve read this Q&A with Conan O’Brien, the TV equivalent can henceforth be known as “flipping pool cues:”
Is that what this blog has become? Is it? Is it?
Here it is, straight from E3:
Every year I very graciously get asked to help judge the Best of E3 competition. And every year I agree, because I genuinely want to judge said competition, and I genuinely believe that I will actually go to E3. And I end up not going.
I just can’t see why anybody wouldn’t want to do this.
