Potter fatigue yet? Yes? Wimps.
Go read this, my paper-edition take on Internet anonymity and the John Mackey scandal. It will make you pine for Hogwarts. (Also this week we have 10 Questions for Shigeru Miyamoto.)
I’ve got a bit of a dilemma on my hands, because I’m committed to delivering a review of Deathly Hallows by tomorrow …
I just returned from a Wizard Rock concert, and it was truly a magical experience. For those of you who don’t know, Wizard Rock is the name of an extremely broad genre of music. It can be country, metal, typical rock or anything else. The only thing all bands have in common is that they sing about the Harry Potter books—often from the …
My copies of Harry Potter wouldn’t be so tattered if I didn’t love reading and rereading the books, even when I know the endings by heart. So I understand what some people were saying in the comments on my last post–spoilers don’t matter to everyone. But all the same, it is a completely different experience to read a book knowing the …
Bit annoying. Honestly, who is being served by this?
Don’t get me wrong. From a journalistic point of view, I am impressed that they got the book early. I’m sticking to official channels and will get the book Friday night, but if I wanted it early, I doubt I could have found a copy.
But really, are there readers out there who are …
The main event of the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas is over. Jerry Yang won. Not the Jerry Yang who co-founded Yahoo — this Jerry Yang is a one-time Laotian refugee, now a social worker and psychologist. He walked away with $8.25 million.
The final hand? Yang scored pocket 8’s, while his opponent, a professional online player …
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 be a copy of the book; rumors fly of the UK …
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 man! Look at his apartment, in that picture! …
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. …
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 …
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.
(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 …
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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