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- Going Mirrorless: WonderCon 2019 Cosplay Photography
Last fall, I conceded that phones have caught up to casual cameras and I’d have to get a nicer one to get better image quality. Well, I finally bought a mirrorless camera. The kiddo found my old SLR, and we’ve split a few rolls of film (re)discovering how to shoot with it. Then he started […]
- A Gallery of Harry Potter Cosplay at WonderCon
There was a lot of Harry Potter cosplay at WonderCon this past weekend! Here are some of my photos, featuring Bellatrix Lestrange, Hagrid, You-Know-Who, Professor Sybill Trelawney (who should look familiar to regular readers!), Hogwarts Professors Dolores Umbridge, Gilderoy Lockhart and Albus Dumbledore; Arthur Weasley, and Rita Skeeter. There are a lot more that I […]
- Professor Trelawney Cosplay at Long Beach Comic Con
Katie’s been talking about dressing up as Professor Trelawney for a while now. She put together the pieces for a costume over the last couple of weeks, and wore them on Saturday at Long Beach Comic Con. It was a huge success! Lots of people recognized the character and wanted photos. We even ran into […]
- Dementors on the Train
In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, when the Dementors search the Hogwarts Express, Professor Lupin derisively says that none of them in the compartment are hiding Sirius Black in their robes. But Ron has Scabbers in his robes, not knowing his “pet rat” is the actual murderer who committed the crime Black was […]
- Overheard at a Comic Con
Overheard at LBCC: “Some guy asked me, what’re YOU dressed up as? And I said…a Muggle?”
- HP8
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 was an impressive ending to the series…but what impresses me most is that it actually finished.
- Hogwarts Groceries
I keep misreading the Snapea Crisps as Snape Crisps…and the right hand placement gets you Aragog Coffee at Trader Joe’s.
- Gandledorf
Go ahead. Tell me Dumbledore doesn’t look like Gandalf in this poster.
- Crossover Names
Have you ever run into a name that you can’t help associating with a completely different context? Like when people realize that one guy in Office Space is named Michael Bolton? Or when you look at “AD&D,” and instead of “Accidental Death and Dismemberment” your first thought is “Advanced Dungeons and Dragons?” Yeah. Especially in […]
- HP Rebellion
I don’t understand the rage exploding over the Harry Potter delay. More precisely, I suppose I should say I don’t understand the depth of the rage. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was originally scheduled for November, but Warner Bros. has just decided to push it back to June for scheduling purposes. Is it annoying? […]
- Following Up on Harry Potter
It was a bit of a surprise to learn that J.K. Rowling’s The Tales of Beadle the Bard is actually getting a mass-market printing. This book of short stories, set in the Harry Potter universe with commentary by Dumbledore, was originally released only in a tiny run of seven hand-made copies, sold at auction for […]
- …and the Wizard
After the “Weird Al” concert we explored the fair a bit, then left to go to Borders to pick up Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Katie had reserved the book at the new one that just opened at The District. And by “just opened,” I mean Wednesday. Her confirmation number was 7. I kid […]
- Waiting for the Wizard
I walked over to the nearby Barnes and Noble at lunch just to see whether anyone was lined up for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Fantasy Film Follow-Up
Saw Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I thought it was better than the fourth film, and up there with Prisoner of Azkaban, though Katie liked Goblet of Fire better. The main thing I would really have liked to see more of: Hogwarts in rebellion. “It unscrews the other way.” We agreed that […]
- Fantastic Films?
2007 looks to be a good year for fantasy adaptations, at least of books I’ve read. What I’ve seen of Stardust (Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess) looks great. I’m psyched up for His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (Phillip Pullman)—and I’ve got to say I’m glad they’re doing each book as its own movie, instead […]
- This isn’t going to last long
Did a Google search just for the heck of it. I wonder how quickly those numbers will climb…
- There Goes the Hogwarts Express
Is this what he saved those mean girls from?
- One Time-Turner to rule them all
I keep calendars displaying both the current month and the next month up in my cube at work. I figured I’d better post this configuration before it stopped being what I got to look at every day:
- From what?
Movie marquee: Harry Potter Saved Mean Girls
- Bad Boys
I am thoroughly sick of the phenomenon I call the Draco Malfoy Effect. This is the process by which young (and not-so-young) women become convinced that not only are evil bad-boy types desirable, but completely reformable. Liking the maverick is nothing new for the Hollywood-hypnotized masses, especially seeing as how he’s so often played by […]
- Sorting the Leviathan
I realized this morning what struck me as odd about the original crew of Moya: they’re not a crew, they’re a D&D party. Two warriors, a priest, a thief, and Ordinary Guy (who’d probably be classed as a bard). We started trying to categorize everyone else who shows up and realized that we’d need to […]
- Harry Potter computer viruses
Inspired by finding a list of Babylon 5 viruses earlier this week. Harry Potter virus: Looks like the last file of a virus you just wiped out, until you try to erase it–then it wipes your drive. Voldemort virus: You can’t get rid of it, only make it dormant. It can be reactivated by the […]
- OotP and LotR
I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me before, but recently I started to wonder if, given the prophecy stuff and plotlines of Order of the Phoenix, Neville could end up Sam to Harry’s Frodo. “Who are you? His bodyguard?” “His gardener.”
- Peter David on “Order of the Phoenix”
I found Peter David’s review of the latest Harry Potter. I agree for the most part with his take on the high/low points, although the pacing didn’t bother me. I had made a comment the other day to Katie regarding Voldemort’s objective not being worth protecting. After all (spoilers)
- Yup, it’s good.
We actually did brave the line on Friday, sort of. A line of kids running out of Borders at the Block just as we were trying to get in, around 10:30. We stayed to look at the entertainment, which the adults were enjoying at least as much as the kids, and then got some coffee […]
- Always check the requirements
We have a “yours, mine and ours” set of computers at home. My system started out as a Compaq Presario in 1994 and has been upgraded piecemeal over the past decade, Katie replaced her Power Mac with a G4 last year, and we picked up an eMachine to use as a dial-up server when we […]
- One more day!!!!
It’s really too bad we’re not planning on braving the crowds of kids to go wait for Order of the Phoenix tonight. My hair’s really got its Hermione on.
- Crimes against adulthood
I now have a Hermione toothbrush. I consider it revenge for all the times my mom wouldn’t get me theme merchandise when I was a kid.
- Snrglt…
The woman across the cubicle keeps talking about someplace in Wildomar, and every time she says it, I hear Voldemort….
- Harry Potter titles I’d like to see
I guess it’s just the “HP and the A of B” pattern, combined with the new movie coming out, but I’d like to see titles like: Harry Potter and the Temple of Doom Harry Potter and the Last Crusade Harry Potter and the Chocolate Frog Factory Harry Potter and the Holy Grail Harry Potter Versus […]
- On the Borders of Reality
The two of us and our friend Daniel were wandering through Borders last night, looking at the Harry Potter display. Oddly, it was right next to the sections on Astrology, Speculative (I guess New Age is too passé), two whole shelves on Magical Studies, Christianity, Metaphysics, and finally Self-Help. (How’s that for an interesting combination?) […]