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 of fans who devour each new book. …
Lolcats Addendum: Where I Got the Story Wrong
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.
I’m gonna field that second point first. I did in fact get the story wrong on lolcats, or at least, there was some serious imprecision there. I wrote: “The oldest known …
Possibly the World’s Last Trend Story on Lolcats
Shut up! Go look at this and come back and tell me that you are unmoved. Go on. Just go.
Also: on Achewood, one cat catches another cat looking at lolcats. Shame ensues.
Who Dies in Harry Potter? God
(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 here.)
Joanne Rowling has three …
Conan O’Brien on Life Backstage at the Simpsons
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:”
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The Halo 3 Trailer: The One With Actual Gameplay
Here it is, straight from E3:
For an additional, very strange, experience, go to Bungie’s E3 page, scroll down, and click on one of the Halo: Arms Race links. You’ll get what appears to be a live-action Halo test short, sort of a preparatory sketch for the (currently sidelined) Halo movie, which Microsoft apparently showed at E3. …
I Went to E3 and All I Got Were These Lousy Videos. Or Wait, I Didn’t Even Go to 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.
But I do feverishly monitor what comes out of it. And I’m going to post the best/most important videos …
You Can Read Joss Whedon’s New Comic Online for Free
I just can’t see why anybody wouldn’t want to do this.
Although if my browser could speak, its reaction to Marvel’s weird comic-browsing setup would be as follows: DO NOT WANT.
Nerd Words: Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us
Sorry for the hiatus. The PS3 is cheaper now. OK, new business.
Last month I plugged this book gonzo-style, without actually having read it. Now I’ve read Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us, and it turns out that in my total ignorance, I was right: I don’t think I’ve read a better non-fiction book this year. (Fiction honors so far this …
Nerd World Is Off Till Monday
Until then, may the octosquid watch over you. (Warning: saving throw vs. madness required.)
J.J. Abrams’ Mystery Trailer
This mysterious trailer has been running in theaters before Transformers:
Sorry for embedding a grainy shaky-cam clip of what is already a grainy shaky-cam movie. This is apparently a “secret” project being produced by J.J. Abrams, where “secret” is marketing-speak for “not secret,” and slated for a January release. What we’re …