Well, Amazon Order Tracking says that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is on the way. The shipping origin is right here in Illinois, so when Amazon shipped it yesterday, it only took three hours to reach Chicago, but Amazon put in a request to hold the package until tomorrow. I actually thought about driving over to the UPS depot that serves my area to try to pick it up … [Read more...] about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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The End of the Harry Potter Series
[Be sure to read the comments: I wrote the first few of these here, but a lot of people have contributed some truly funny endings.] The end of the Harry Potter series, as written by Mario Puzo (The Godfather) : Replacing the fallen Dumbledore as head of Hogwarts, Professor Minerva McGonagall proves to have balls of steel. In a well-coordinated series of carefully-timed … [Read more...] about The End of the Harry Potter Series
John From Cincinnati – Review
John From Cincinnati is all about angry stupid people. But not uninteresting angry stupid people. The show was created by David Milch, co creater of NYPD Blue and Deadwood. Set in the California surfing town of Imperial Beach, the show is in some sense a family drama, revolving around the spectacularly dysfunctional Yost family and their equally disturbed and tortured … [Read more...] about John From Cincinnati – Review
Transformers – Review
This was the best action movie I've seen in a long time. I was not a fan of the Transformers TV series (or comic book, or toy line), so I can't tell you if the movie is faithful to the franchise. From what I understand, the mythos is pretty confused and has changed many times, so the movie probably isn't far off from whatever Transformers fans are expecting. In the first few … [Read more...] about Transformers – Review
On My Reading List: The cult of the amateur
I've just picked up The Cult of the Amateur: How today's Internet is killing our culture by Andrew Keen. I spotted the book at Borders and read the jacket copy, which surprised me in its ability to make me seethe with anger: in a hard-hitting and provocative polemic...Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today's new participatory Web 2.0 and reveals how it threatens … [Read more...] about On My Reading List: The cult of the amateur