Fandomentalism
You'll see a few familiar names there, ahem . . . There's a place for people to post comments about each quote.
And since I have nothing else to write about and WB won't even release any photographs from the HBP movie and save us from boredom, here is a video my kids watch every day because they think it is hilarious, but it's probably not suitable for very young children. I cannot explain exactly why this is funny, but it is. Some of you may have seen this already . . .
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chipper - Music:Candy Mountain
I don't know why this song came to mind . . . hmmm
but it's a great video!
Fleetwood Mac ~ Sweet Little Lies
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geeky - Music:Fleetwood Mac "Tell Me Lies"
The last two days have been . . . well . . . let's just say I'm tired of typing.
So here's a post just for fun because unless there is major breaking news,
I may take tomorrow off from the Blog-o-sphere.
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First we have "Mr. Bill Goes to Court" from Saturday Night Live.
Next: From Buffy the Vampire Slayer ~
Spike Sings a Song
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tired - Music:Spike: "Let Me Rest In Peace"
In the HP books, there are many questionable juvenile jokes, from Ron making remarks about "Uranus" in Divination class, to George considering himself "holy" now that his ear is gone, to Percy being teased as "Bighead Boy" by his brothers. The name "Harry Potter" is euphemistic and just barely passes the censors. And the fact is, most HP fans appreciate a good joke, the sillier the better.
So when I read last week that JKR and her witnesses do not appreciate the "facetious asides" in the Lexicon, it seemed rather incredible. And when you read the transcript and see what the objections were, it's really funny. Recall that Harry himself thinks that Hagrid is "too large to be allowed," Yet JKR said:
A. (JKR) For that money, I believe you are being resold the Harry
15 Potter books with a negligible amount of attempted commentary,
16 some of it false, and a lot of facetious comments. I quote,
17 "I would like to see Hagrid fit himself into a McDonald's booth."
That was a remark Steve put in the Lexicon book. I fail to see why that would bother JKR, unless she hasn't been to McDonald's lately and tried to sit in a narrow plastic booth. It makes me wonder, have the books suddenly turned into "sacred texts" so that we can't joke about them?
Witness for the Plaintiff Jeri Johnson was on the stand complaining of some rather mild jokes Steve Vander Ark makes in the Lexicon book, and the Judge saw right through it to the heart of the matter and chimed in:
Q. (Hammer) You are an Oxford don, are you not?
9 (Johnson) A. I am.
10 Q. Many of the readers of the Harry Potter books are 12, 13,
11 14-year-olds, isn't that true?
12 A. Yes.
13 THE COURT (Judge): Or younger.
14 Q. Or younger.
15 The Harry Potter books are filled with jokes, are they
16 not, that are directed at 10, 11, 12 and 13-year-olds, correct?
17 A. Yes, there are.
18 Q. In fact, there are jokes about troll boogers, isn't that
19 true?
20 A. Yes.
21 Q. There are jokes about phlegm, isn't that true?
22 A. Yes.
23 Q. You, I assume, don't often joke about phlegm, correct?
24 A. Only with my 9-year-old daughter.
25 Q. So, in fact, you yourself recognize that a 9-year-old might
1 find something funny that you yourself do not?
2 A. Absolutely.
Absolutely right. In the books there are also jokes about toilet seats, and jokes about an old man with nothing on under a dress so air can get to his privates. There are jokes about Moaning Myrtle getting into the bathtub with Harry. Sirius jokes about Kreacher snogging a pair of pants. Gilderoy Lockhart tells Snape that his "wand is a little over-excited." And how can we forget all the "goat jokes" about Aberforth? Are those stories not meant to be "facetious asides"?
Really humor is the last thing they should have brought up because parody is protected under copyright law, and the way things are going, that may be the only legal way anyone can express an opinion eventually.
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quixotic - Music:Beatles: "Magical Mystery Tour"
Author Orson Scott Card, who also wrote so eloquently about Severus Snape before DH:
J.K. Rowling, Lexicon and Oz
"I fully expect that the outcome of this lawsuit will be:
1. Publication of Lexicon will go on without any problem or prejudice, because it clearly falls within the copyright law's provision for scholarly work, commentary and review.
2. Rowling will be forced to pay Steven Vander Ark's legal fees, since her suit was utterly without merit from the start.
3. People who hear about this suit will have a sour taste in their mouth about Rowling from now on. Her Cinderella story once charmed us. Her greedy evil-witch behavior now disgusts us. And her next book will be perceived as the work of that evil witch. "
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working - Music:Fleetwood Mac "Gold Dust Woman"
Ten Commandments of Trying a Case as Set Forth by Yours Truly Bluestocking.
Also, here's a hilarious story from 1945, back when the Marx Brothers were making a movie called "A Night in Casablanca" and Warner Brothers told them the name was too similar to the Humphrey Bogart picture "Casablanca." Groucho Marx wrote numerous letters trying to explain, each letter more bizarre than the next, until finally the legal department at WB left them alone to make their movie.
Groucho Marx Confuses the WB Legal Department
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mischievous - Music:The Ventures "Hawaii Five-O" (Aloha)
Inkwolf's Hogwarts Staff Meeting: Trial Edition
Excerpt:
Bugs Bunny: Myeaaaah (chomps carrot) Warner Brothers intends to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Malfoy Publishing printed a Guide to Harry Potter that infringes on our intellectual property and includes slanderous statements about Harry Potter’s former intellectual property owner, causing the lovely Ms. Rowling untold heartache, pain, suffering, malaise and gastritis, and moreover to prove that Warner Brothers refuses to let Disney be the only studio that burns terror into lawyers’ hearts. We’re number one! Eat that, Eisner—oh, wait, he’s long gone…
Judge: And the defendant?
Malfoy: The Defense maintains that all biographical statements are entirely true, that the Harry Potter Guidebook is a legal and scholarly work necessitated by demand, and that Warner Brothers is only being pouty because I thought of it first!
Bunny: Objection! Warner Brothers is NOT being pouty! We’re protecting our rights! (stamps foot and pouts.)
Malfoy: Yeah, right. Don’t mess with me, Bugs, I had rabbit for lunch.
Bunny: This…means…war!
Judge: Order! Order in the courtroom! The Plaintiff will stop pouting and call their first witness.
Bunny: I call…Professor Joanne Rowling!
Judge: Are you Ms. Rowling?
Rowling: You mean…you don’t KNOW? You don’t recognize me? What, do you live in a hole or something? Darn you, I’m FAMOUS!
Bunny: And so lovely and unspoiled by it. Tell us, Joanne, in your own sweet words, how the idea of Malfoy Publishing printing the Harry Potter Guide fills you with horror and loathing and has caused you uncountable sleepless nights.
Rowling: The idea of Malfoy Publishing printing the Harry Potter Guide fills me with horror and loathing and has caused me uncountable sleepless nights.
Bunny: Poor darling!
Rowling: I mean, I wrote the books! ME! I slaved over them day and night for years, Dumbledore standing over me with a whip! If anyone’s going to chisel a share of profit away from WB, it should be me, ME!
McGonagall: Did you stand over her with a whip?
Dumbledore: I can’t remember…
(Much Much More at the Link)
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giddy - Music:Underdog Theme
. . . in an additional new move, the lawyers have copyrighted and trademarked the words "Harry" and "Potter" and will protect those brands. In a statement, the author said, "Muggles everywhere should be happy that I have been so restrained. Some thought I should protect every word I wrote in the seven Harry Potter volumes."Referring to that was this comment on the Library and Information Sciences Blog:
Nonetheless, a range of affected people and groups have already protested, and Rowling quickly responded with suggestions that she said would be legally satisfactory to her. For one, new editions of Peter Rabbit titles can have the byline "Beatrix P." Likewise future DVDs of the 1989 classic may be retitled When Harold Met Sally. And Chapin and Connick, Jr., should be enough to convey the identities of those magical musicians.
"So, does that mean we should expect to be hearing about a name change out of Buckingham Palace..."The Prince Formerly Known As Harry", along with a copyrighted unpronounceable symbol?"
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good - Music:John Fogerty "Deja Vu All Over Again"
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freggythepod for showing me this! *lol* Great costume, by the way!- Location:Fandom
- Mood: giggly
- Music:Neil Diamond "Solitary Man"
- Location:Christmas Burn-Out
- Mood: cheerful
- Music:"I Saw Three Ships" by David Arkenstone
A Jewish woman took pictures of the signs and posted them here on LJ. Her name is
nancykayshapiro and her posts are here. The comments are a mixture of amusement and religious huffiness. I'm just linking because I think it's totally hilarious.
She is selling aprons, magnets, coffee mugs and cards in her Cafe Press store here.
The New York Daily News did an article I've put below the cut - Enjoy!
( *LOL* )
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- Mood: mischievous
- Music:"Charlie Brown Soundtrack"
My favorite television shows are all on Bravo TV. Project Runway is the best, but I also love Top Chef, which last night had a wonderful Christmas Cook-Off, and I think Tim Gunn's Guide to Style is one of the sweetest shows I've ever seen. My obsession with Bravo began with the very first reality show - Blow Out. I've never been interested in styling hair, but the personalities on that show were so fascinating that it drew me in.
That is also how I feel about the Real Housewives of Orange County, which holds my interest for an hour each week for totally different reasons.
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- Mood: chipper
- Music:Teenager's Alarm Clock
I decided I would choose two enjoyable nursery rhyme "interviews" by Kermit the Frog from Sesame Street:
( Sesame Videos )
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content - Music:Silence
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