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Talk About a Turnaround
July 15, 2003
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Hey folks. Gonna make it short tonight - but not before I export some nifty information to you all - and I'll only add that I've read nearly 400 pages in the new Harry Potter since I picked it up at around 4 on Monday afternoon. Sure, I'm a fast reader, but it also helps that the book is really fricking GOOD. And it's like I've always said: the ideal age for each Harry Potter book is whatever age Harry is at the time, maybe a year younger at the most. I don't want to give anything away, but this book is certainly darker than the others, and has a degree of insight and fear woven into it that I'm pretty damn sure that younger kids would miss (unless they were particularly sharp), and, if they caught it, it'd freak them out something plenty. Hell, I'm freaked at some of the things that happen in it... but I'm giving too much away here. Go and read it, and if you haven't read the series before, well, no time like the present. You may not be blown away by the first couple of books, but it's in the later ones where Rowling's talent as a writer really puts on its best hat and comes out to say hello. Or something.
Ah, goodness: my friend Betsy and her friend Jena (notable not only for both being awesomely cool, but Jena's production this fine bit of fan art, and right when we desperately needed it, too, during the Terrible Tyger Sickness of the Fall of aught-two) have finally sprung their secret trap. It is
A WEBCOMIC! Glee! Lo, go forth, my faithful readers, and feast your eyes upon it. Bear in mind that it still is under construction, but nonetheless, it is 10 pounds of Nifty in a 5-pound bag. Booyah.
::shakes head:: Sadness. No sooner do I link the folks at The Stairwell than they decide to take a break for the summer. ::sigh:: That's a pity. Makes me nervous, too, because the topic is broached by first mentioning our rise to the top of the Rocketbox Comics Top Comics list (oh yeah, and please vote for us), citing their apparent lack of comics, and then saying they'll take down their voting logo until new stuff is posted. This makes Annie a sad panda: after all, there are many other sites out there that hardly EVER post, and nothing is done about it. Well... this isn't saying that I don't think anything should be done about lack of postings, but that I feel bad that the folks over at le Stairwell took such drastic measures. But I guess it's better to be honest with your readerbase and give them bad news that's true rather than meander around the topic and drop pleasant-but-false bits of info like bat guano. So kudos to everyone over there at The Stairwell for making this tough decision: we look forward to you coming back ASAP, and you can bet we'll be trumpeting it out to the people when you return.
Oh, and to let you know: according to Unrevealed Sources (i.e. several of my friends), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a large disappointment, which is unfortunate indeed, but, I have to admit, somewhat expected: Alan Moore's visions aren't always easy ones to properly transmit from their original medium (hence, I believe - although among many other reasons - why his best-known work Watchmen hasn't made it to the screen in the 15+ years since its groundbreaking release). HOWEVER - Pirates of the Caribbean is wonderful, wonderful, WONDERFUL. It's not just Johnny Depp, or Legolas - er, sorry, Orlando Bloom - or Geoffrey Rush, or the directing skill of Gore Verbinski, or even the presence of ships and swords and rum and such, but a delightful combination of these factors into a fanciful spread that would cow even the mightiest Iron Chef into a bow of humble defeat. Instantly, I say, I began mulling over the possibility of being a pirate for Halloween: me, who has always favored (and still does!) the side of ninja. Now, if I could be a ninja-pirate... or a pirate-ninja...!
Oh dear, it's enough to make one wet their pants with glee. ...Well, maybe just me. Anyhow. Good movie, go see it.
That's it for me
probably going to scurry off to Hogwarts' again, if you know what I mean... ::grins:: Be well, yo.
The One What Lives,
Annie "Blue" C
As sure as five will get you ten
I'm going to cross her path again
- Tom Maxwell
"Sixes and Sevens To Me"
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