Category Archives: Literary

Join the Harry Potter Challenge

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Snape-a-go-goWell, get a move on.

We have, as of this typing, exactly 29 days before the July 21st release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Cold Hallows, the seventh and allegedly final book in the Hogwartian Mythos Cycle.

Which is, should you be a speedy reader, just enough time to get through all of the previous books, particularly if you read them before. If you read them before but you were drunk, it counts as reading them for the first time, for purposes of scorekeeping in this highly competitive international competition.

And no, watching the movies does not count, especially if you mostly just fast-forwarded and rewound and replayed all the parts with Luscious Lucius Malfoy until the DVD started to burn out on you.

For bonus points, you may also read the purportedly-but-not-confirmedly-false version of HPatDH which was posted on the internet last month. And you may do so here.

So what are you waiting for? Get to work!

GET TO WORK!

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quiz: has American culture ruined you?

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American what?


You Have Not Been Ruined by American Culture


You’re nothing like the typical American. In fact, you may not be American at all.

You have a broad view of the world, and you’re very well informed.

And while you certainly have been influenced by American culture (who hasn’t?), it’s not your primary influence.

You take a more global philosophy with your politics, taste, and life. And you’re always expanding and revising what you believe.

Has American Culture Ruined You?

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V for Vendetta: The translation!

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For those of you who, unlike me, do not speak Alliteration, here is the great alliteration speech from the film V for Vendetta, where V introduces himself to Evey, SUBTITLED!

quiz: in a post-apocalyptic world, who would you be?

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Hmm, bit of a surprise here, as I was expecting cyberpunk (does serving lattes to William Gibson for a solid year count for NOTHING?) but then, I have no more faith in technology than I do in human nature!

 

In A Post-Apocalyptic World, Who Would You Be?

 

You are a Bounty Hunter
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Also, how does that synch up with this:


Which heroic sword fighter are you?

 

You are Joan of Arc, maid of Orleans! You are a born leader. Your strengths include a sharp mind and determination, your weaknesses include a certain degree of self-righteousness and difficulty compromising. You would rather die than betray your beliefs. You are more popular than you realize.
Oh, yeah… you are also quite possibly insane.
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the Bayeux Tapestry does YouTube

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SO way classier than Debbie doing Dallas. But these guys didn’t take their boots off in the climactic scene either.

Dirty toenails: from porn stars to Norman invaders, an eternal shame.

This is actually a very clever animation of the historic and dignified (far too dignified for the likes of us, actually) Bayeux Tapestry (although not so historic as to not be up to date with, like, totally its own website if not a Flickr account), which documents the Norman Invasion in 1066, one of the few dates I remember from history (hell, I think my last date was in 1067) and my historic in and of itself attempt to get all the way through Will and Ariel Durant‘s entire output. I think they’re JK Rowling‘s ghostwriters nowadays, actually, at least it looks that way from the word count.

shamelessly pillaged from HopeEternal

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