Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry from the early 80s as Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.

So young. So funny.

Burrell, so what brings you to Seattle? How long are you here and do you have time to meet Buffistas?

We're headed up to Lopez Island for a REAL vacation (as opposed to going somewhere for the weekend). I haven't been to Seattle for about 10 years, maybe more. And even then I really didn't see it, other than UW.

I'm hoping to meet up with Buffistas while I'm there, absolutely.

On the same page was a link to a much too brief video of Emma Thompson on Ellen.

Is LJ being problematic for anyone else?

The Potterdammerung must have broken it.

Is LJ being problematic for anyone else?

Apparently the electrical grid achieved perfect happiness.

I don't want to be spoiled (haven't read The Book yet), but has Potterdammerung arrived on schedule? Just out of curiosity

I haven't trolled Fandom Wank enough to know, but I feel sort of disappointed not to have heard of really big ridiculousness anyway. Most of my friends aren't that wanky themselves, and some are still waiting to read the book, so dissemination of links may not be proceeding apace. Perhaps later in the week, critical mass will be achieved.

The most wankery I've come across has been not so much the fandom as non-Potterphiles scorning and sneering at everyone getting all het up. So far my favorite is the commenter on Matthew Yglesias' blog who said haughtily that being a grown-up Harry Potter fan is really very much like having a fetish for those videos of women in high heels stomping on rodents: if you have ugly proclivities like that it's certainly your right, but you at least ought to have the grace to not admit it in public.

Though I also like the guy on "Making Light" who felt the series was full of plot holes and shoddy writing (despite having only read the first two and a summary of Deathly Hallows) and who felt that all adventure stories are like games, and if there's some piece of information the characters don't know until the end (the diary is possessed! You can only get the Philosopher's Stone if you want it but don't want to use it! etc.) -- even if the characters are preteens and part of the point of the entire plot is about them rushing into situations they don't fully understand -- then the person who wrote the game is CHEATING and the whole thing SUCKS. And he doesn't need to actually read the series to have a fully informed opinion on how much it sucks, thank you very much.

It makes wanking from within the fandom seem almost quaint and adorable. And yet I keep seeking it out.

JZ, you should collect all those people and ask them to form a line outside my apartment so I can punch them in the face.