That girl who wrote that fic.

In case any of you HP fans out there missed it, Kevin Smith's Smodcast did an episode devoted to Deathly Hallows Part 2 (it's episode 180 here), and OMG -- it's freaking hilarious!

It's basically Kevin and his friend Scott Mosier going scene by scene through the movie and riffing on everything. They seem to be stoned, which makes it even better. Though they get a lot of canon details wrong (you'll want to correct them a lot, but just go with it) and keep doing this annoying Russell Brand accent when trying to sound British, it's a crazy funny listen.

There is an astonishing amount of slash and adult-oriented content in the podcast, I have to say. Kevin Smith is just cool that way, but I almost lost it in the grocery store listening to this. ( Here are a few spoilers/enticements... )

Anyway, I recommend it! :-D

Anyone else getting random spam comments on two-year-old entries? I screen all anon comments, so I'm not sure what the point is.

I meant to mention this last week:



W00t!! In addition to that, Surrender the Grey was nominated for a Quills award. :-D Nominations are still open until February 28, so please go nominate your favorite fics!

1. slashcast episode 11 is up here! Featuring a GLBT news update from phaballa; a meta discussion on movie vs. book canon with charlotteschaos, kerryblaze, and scarah2; a fandom opinion segment by stepps; and the first part of my interview with henry_jenkins. w00t!

2. MDH and I spent several nights this last week watching TV news shows, and for the first time in years, it was kind of fun. The Republicans are scrambling, and I'm enjoying watching it. They've become the party of warmongers, pedophiles, and meth-taking homophobic closet case religious nuts. Bush is having to go to areas where the Republicans have strongholds in a last-ditch attempt to hang onto his base. Democrats have a real chance of winning seats in places where they were more likely to have been lynched a year ago. I'm too cynical to be hopeful yet, but I'm kind of looking forward to Tuesday.

3. I am making progress on writing my holiday exchange fics, yay!

4. Made dulce de leche from scratch last night. And poured it over homemade vanilla ice cream. Mmmmm...

I'm a huge fan of Avenue Q, and after seeing it again recently, I began to wonder how much they would change when the musical moved to London. (It's just opened in the West End, I think.) There are so many distinctly American (not to mention New York) references in it that I wondered how it would play. Would it have to be mercilessly Britpicked?

As it turns out, the producers worried about this as well, but in the end, they didn't change very much:

Vernacular modifications (such as using the term flat for apartment) were also not a problem according to Whitty. "A few changes were made, but they're universal ones that work in both the UK and the States. We wouldn't use 'flat' for 'apartment' because we don't say that in New York. Sometimes it was a matter of making changes for references that come easily in the States but require a few seconds of processing in the UK — if you're landing a laugh in a song that's moving quickly, you can't afford those few seconds. So we found some happy mediums."

Link to the article

I have tickets to see it there in November, squee!

A few months ago, I signed up for Blockbuster's version of netflix and did a search on "gay" to fill up my queue. So basically, they send me gay-themed films to watch, and most of them I've never heard of.

I just watched the most adorable film I've seen in ages, and I really want to rec it to everyone. It's a romantic comedy about a 30-something man finally realizing he's gay, and it's fantastic! If you love slash, you really should try to get hold of a copy. If you can watch it with other slashers, even better.

Sex, Politics, & Cocktails

Original editions of the Star Wars films to be released on DVD this fall!!

Proving that fans sometimes win, w00t!

And Han shot first!

Have just bought two balls of glow-in-the-dark yarn on eBay. *looks shifty*

I'm really honored to be the featured author this month on hd_darkestmagic! You can read my interview by clicking on the image below. :-D

( Oh, wow! This is so amazing!! )

On an unrelated note, I dreamed I was at Lumos last night, and I was talking to epicyclical and sonofdarkness. But you both looked completely different than you do in RL, and I was sitting there the whole time trying to figure out if I should say something or not. Very weird.

Willie Nelson, you are so, SO cool! You make me proud to be a Texan, I swear.

Willie's new song: Cowboys are Secretly Frequently Fond of Each Other (Link opens iTunes)

See Willie talking about it on the local news here. (Check out the grey box on the top left corner of the page.)

I wonder if there'll be a music video? ;-)