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Neil gives us a Mirrormask update:
The current news is — good news, MirrorMask will be getting a wider release than was originally envisioned; bad news, it’s now going to be getting to the cinemas later in 2005 than was originally planned. I think it’ll be released in early autumn. More news as I get it.
Alas, so long to wait! Oh well. At least the book is still coming out May 3rd.
US and UK covers released for HP6! If the kids’ UK cover is any indication, it looks like Harry and Dumbledore are going to be prodding buttock and taking names. Or maybe they will be burned at the stake for witchcraft and Book 7 will be called Hermione Granger and the Useless Pile of Ashes that Until Recently Were Humanity’s Only Hope for Defeating the Ultimate Evil; Thanks A Lot, You Bigoted Fundamentalist Puritan Jerks. Actually, I would really like to see that happen. Anyway, if the US edition is any indication, we definitely haven’t seen the last of the pensieve.
I don’t know how I feel about the new US cover. I miss the cover style of the first four books that were absolutely riddled with clues as to what we could expect in the book. I remember when the cover art for GoF came out. The fandom went nuts for months, arguing over the identities of those three people on the cover with Harry. And that was just the tip of the iceberg. The covers for OotP and HBP are pretty, but devoid of all the “Haha, I’ve seen the plot outline and generally know what’s going to happen and YOU HAVEN’T, so I’ll leave all these clues to torment you!” charm of MGP’s earlier covers. Sigh.
TODAY DEFINES FABULOUS.
I investigated prices from various online retailers and concluded that it would be cheapest to buy the iPod from the Apple Store nearby, so Mom and I stopped by early this afternoon and made life just that much more beautiful. I have an iPod! I shall call it “Squishy”, and it shall be mine, and it shall be my squishy. No, actually, I’m still deciding on a name. I think it defititely needs an “I” name, like Ivan or Ira or Isis or Isengard or whatever. And I have the sneaking suspicion that it’s female, unlike all my previous prized electronic posessions. It’s so preeeeeeeeeety! I might make some pun off “Isopod”, which is the scientific name for the insect commonly known as the “doodlebug” or “roly-poly”. Anyway, she’s a 30 gig iPod Photo. She has a color screen and over 3/4 as much memory as my entire laptop, yet smaller than a deck of cards. She has a white belly and a shiny silver back.
*blinks*
My god. iPods are this generation’s Pet Rocks.
Okay, anyway, next I called Dell tech support in hopes of finally getting my CD player issues resolved to I could actually rip my CDs to download my music to my iPod. Two hours later and Jimmy was running like new. Better than new, in fact, as I’m not sure my CD player ever really worked properly. Mmm, gotta love the mad rush to fix all technical problems before one’s warranty expires! One month left. :D
Life is brilliant and fabulous and yay for shiny new toys! Any suggestions for what to name her? They need not necessarily be i-names. Any thoughts on the matter are welcome.
I HAVE AN IPOD!!!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
Bad evening. Then I watched Amber Benson’s “Chance” (now that I have access to a DVD player, other than the stubborn one on my laptop), and things are looking up. I am so incredibly entertained. I’m sure I wouldn’t have found it half as amusing if I had not seen Buffy, as much of my amusement came in the form of “Oh my good gravy, that’s the guy who plays Lorne! And he’s hitting on James Marsters’ character! *snorks madly*” etc, but the movie was still very cute. And this marks the first time I was not weirded out by James’ real accent! Yay me!
I was also quite amused at how in Chance and Simon’s post-coital scene, the shots are hilariously similar to those of one of the scenes in “Intervention” with Spike and the Buffybot. I wonder if I can find screencaps… ah, here! Compare: Chance vs. Intervention. The similarity is funnier when seen in video form, but yeah, you get the picture. I laughed. Loudly.
So yes. A splendid time was had by all. All meaning “me”.
I need something chocolate.
I LOVE MY FAMILY. Just conversing over dinner, nothing out of the ordinary. Good lord, I love my family so much. I just had to say something.
Renata, what all did you need to do to transfer frowl.org from y-s to dreamhost? In what order does everything need to be done?
Lost ships:
Marcelina: I don’t get the whole thing with Sayid and whatsername [note: Shannon]. Where did that come from?
Me: I don’t get it either. It’s because he’s a hottie and she’s the only other lead female on the island.
Cyth: Well, now Sun is free…
Me: Yeah, but that would be like a Token Minority ship. Tacky.
Marcelina: Well, she already has something of a relationship with Michael…
Me: True. Okay, then a Korean and an Iraqi. It’d be like the Axis of Evil ship.
(Though Jin and Sun are from South Korea, right? Oh well. I’m still entertained.)
SIX WEEKS. OH, THE PAIN. HOW WILL WE SURVIVE? *watches the Sawyer song again*
*goggles* I think I’m getting an iPod. Apparently, this brings the total number of people in the universe that do not have iPods down to 5. I’m reminded of a comic strip that ran in 1977 when “A New Hope” came out, where there are these two old ladies talking, and one of them says “We must be the only two people in the world who haven’t seen Star Wars.” Then the other woman whips out a pistol, shoots the first woman, and gleefully mugs to the audience, “Now I’m the only one!” Now I won’t have to be shot to win someone else the honor of being the only person on the planet without an iPod! It’s like life insurance, but with a more streamlined design and choice of six attractive colors!
*goggles* In the Harry Potter books, use of the Cruciatus Curse is worth a life-sentence in Azkaban. Explain to me how this is okay.
I don’t know what other word I can use to describe this, other than “evil.”
A rehashing of the infamous llama song, but with Sawyer from Lost. The most brilliant thing I’ve seen in days, and that’s not just because it’s 3AM. I’m sure it would be just as brilliant were it not 4AM Philly time and had I not just gotten out of a midnight screening of a Kubrick movie.
My brain hurts. It hurts so good.
(link ganked from Becky. Because pretty much every link worth visiting is ganked from Becky. She’s just that awesome. I think I’m going to sleep now.)
