Isn't it? I bought it for airplane reading and giggled out loud the whole way. I just ordered a copy for one of my dear friends, who is also a Stickler. She's always used the phrase "eats, shoots and leaves" as an example, and her partner (who always gets sayings screwed up) uses "eats, shoots and ladders."
We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.
Mal ,'Serenity'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Volans - Jul 26, 2004 7:50:56 am PDT #5329 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Lilty Cash - Jul 26, 2004 7:50:56 am PDT #5330 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
I'm finally working on Laurie Notaro's I Love Everybody (And Other Atrocious Lies). There's a chapter on 'The Sims' that almost made me wet myself (and go out and buy 'The Sims'. Which I actually did. Buy 'The Sims'. Not wet myself.)
sumi - Jul 26, 2004 9:00:03 am PDT #5331 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Wizardnews posts and interesting new entry in the f.a.q. for JK Rowlings official website. (Shamefully, I cannot find where the f.a.q. for the official website is.
sumi - Jul 26, 2004 9:01:21 am PDT #5332 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Serial -- have discovered that it is v. easy to find if you go to the "text only" version of the website.
Lyra Jane - Jul 26, 2004 12:07:16 pm PDT #5333 of 10002
Up with the sun
Interesting.
Rowling wrote;
Therefore Harry would be considered only 'half' wizard, because of his mother's grandparents.
To which the person managing the site commented:
In this FAQ entry, J.K. is stating, for the first time, that Harry's mother's grandparents were Muggles.[...] By telling us that the Muggle-blood in Harry comes from his great-grandparents, she seems to saying that both of Harry's grandparents, his Mother's parents, were Wizards.
Alternately -- and given that this is Rowling, I don't think this is unlikely -- "his mother's grandparents" could be a mistake for "his grandparents on his mother's side." To me, that fits better with the book's canon. But I tend to speed-read HP, so I may be missing something that fits better with the website maintainer's interpretation.
sumi - Jul 26, 2004 12:32:31 pm PDT #5334 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
The interesting thing is that the Wizardnews folks mentioned the whole Dudley could be considered a half-blood thing.
Trudy Booth - Jul 26, 2004 12:48:54 pm PDT #5335 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I saw it the way you did, Lyra.
Though a wizard Dudley is amusing...
Connie Neil - Jul 26, 2004 1:02:39 pm PDT #5336 of 10002
brillig
Dudley ... Slytherin ... Draco kicking the crap out of him ...
Where do I vote?
Atropa - Jul 26, 2004 2:47:24 pm PDT #5337 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Jilli! Is it really reallly you?
What? Just because I've become a hermit and no one sees me anymore ...
I'm convinced Petunia is a Squib. It's so obvious!
Aims - Jul 26, 2004 2:49:15 pm PDT #5338 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
t sits with Jilli