Nothing That Doesn't Offend You

What does your music library say about you?
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1. Put Your iTunes mp3 player on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write down the name of the song no matter how silly it sounds!
4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name.
Thanks dawningmama !
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( We're Talking Fucking Lee )

Empire Magazine has revealed its list of the 50 Greatest TV Shows ever .
1. Bold the shows you watch/used to watch.
2. Italicize the shows you've seen at least one episode of.
3. Underline the shows you own on DVD (at least one season).
4. Post your answers.

I tend not to buy tv shows on DVD... and I've never seen an CSI anything.
( Click here! )

I've been a pumpkin carving fool the past few days. I'll post one for all to see, the rest under cuts. Happy Halloween!

My son wanted a Harry Potter Vampire pumpkin.




( Hello Kitty! )

( Dr. Horrible! )

( Happy Happy Joy Joy! )

Do any of youse guys own the HP light up wands? Like this one?

My son has wanted one ever since he saw it in the Skymall catalog. I was going to get him one for Christmas, and if I get him one I'll have to get his little sister one too. Otherwise, how will they be able to chase each other around the house yelling "stupefy!"?

 Alivans has one that is much cheaper and made of plastic. Unfortunately there is only one style, which will result in a lot of "you have my wand!" nonsense. The collectible ones are made of wood and resin, and you can get Harry's or Hermione's or whoever.

The collectible one says "This is not a toy! Fragile! blah blah blah blah!"

If you have one, how fragile is it? Should I stick with the plastic ones, because it *will* get a lot of use and probably stepped on and slightly chewed by the dog.

As seen on dacro's journal -


visited 25 states (50%)
Create your own visited map of The United States or determine the next president

From norton_gale - List 10 books you have on your bookshelf that you think nobody else on your friends' list has on theirs.

( The Ten )

Did I win?

My son just finished reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

*basks*

Not bad, for six and a half. I told him a long time ago that in order to watch a Harry Potter movie, he had to read the book first. Last year I tried reading the book aloud to him, but that ended in frustration with about a third of the first chapter completed. He just couldn't pay attention, and had a hard time getting past why the story was about Harry at the Dursley's, and not about Hogwarts.

Sometime this Spring he saw some girls on his school bus reading Harry Potter, and decided he would do the same. I didn't think he would actually do it, but more often than not he got off the bus carrying the book, his bookmark a couple pages farther along each time. The library summer reading program helped spur him further as he insisted (in the beginning) on reading for 30 minute stretches at a time (he has finally accepted that he can read 15 minutes here, 15 minutes there, and still color in a square to get him to his goal). Most recently he has been reading it before bed with his dad.

I know that there are broader concepts he didn't quite understand, and he struggled with Hagrid's style of speaking. I was a little worried about the dead unicorn in the Forbidden Forest, but he took it in stride. He likes to study the chapter titles and try to figure out what is going to happen next based on them (Maybe other people do this as well, I hardly ever pay attention to them. The one time I did, when reading The Amber Spyglass -I think it was the chapter Lyra and her Death - and I was kind of pissed off and anxious until I got to the chapter and realized the title wasn't a huge plot spoiler).

We took turns this morning reading the last chapter out loud. I had to stop and take a drink of coffee and compose myself when I got to Neville and his well-earned house points and how much he blossoms in the series. I felt a little stab of sadness every time I read about a character that won't be there by the end of book seven. I wonder how he will deal with those deaths. Fortunately he has several hundred pages ahead of him before the first one.

This weekend, the movie!

Rule of Threes: whatever you send out from yourself will come back threefold.

[the following text is lifted straight from the petition because I'm having trouble thinking up a title for this post, let alone construct a coherent sentence...]

"On Wednesday, June 25, 2008, during a live broadcast of a wedding reception on the TODAY Show, Kathy Lee Gifford gratuitously referred to Pagans as "nasty, bad Pagans." Ms. Gifford's hate speech has done harm to American Pagans' ability to live in peace with our neighbors of other faiths. By allowing her hate speech to be broadcast, her direct employer the TODAY Show, and their network, NBC, participate in that hate speech.

This is a petition calling for, at the very least, an on-air apology. A TODAY Show program devoted to dispelling misconceptions about Pagans and Paganism would go a long ways toward undoing the damage.

Signers of this petition are also putting the sponsor of that TODAY Show segment, Samsung, on notice that we are conducting a BOYCOTT against them until such time as we receive justice."

Basically, KLG decided to ad lib, rather than read a question straight from the stupid little wedding quiz they were doing on the Today Show. Instead of reading "pagans believe it was bad luck" she said "pagans, the nasty bad pagans, believed it was bad luck..."

Here is the video, if you can stomach watching her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anFqvwQoaR8

Here is the petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/quotnasty-bad-pagansquot-protesting-hate-speech-on-nbc

Seriously, would she have said that if it were any other religion? WTF?

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