Lumos CDs!

I got my CDs of some Lumos sessions in the mail recently, and I've been listening to them in the car during my commute. The sound quality is really good, I have to say, though in many sessions you miss out on about a third of what was said because the voices of people in the audience weren't picked up by the mics. In some cases, the people running the panel did a good job of paraphrasing those comments and repeating questions, but in other cases, you just miss out. I think the CD of the crack panel turned out particularly well, and it was a lot of fun to listen to! I made audience members come up to the mic to ask their questions and make their comments, and I'm really glad I did, because there's very little on the CD that isn't understandable.

Overall, it's so much fun to listen to these, particularly to panels I didn't get to go to. So much fandom love, I gotta say!

And... um... there doesn't seem to be a copyright on these CDs that I can see. I have five of them: the crack panel, the slash vs. het panel, "Bridging the Gap Between Scholars and Fans in a University-level HP Course", "A Critical Look at Wizarding Education", and "Educational Theory and Practice in the HP novels". I'm just sayin'...

Kock? ;-)

I TiVo'd the William Shatner Roast on Comedy Central the other night, and I have to say it was one of the funniest things I've seen EVER. The snark and the mean and the sporking was just beyond anything I've seen on television, I swear. I laughed so hard I literally wet my pants!

One of the highlights was Andy Dick's cracktastic Kirk/Spock mpreg fanfic reading. The man knows his slash cliches, for reals. There were little things in there that made me wonder just how much slash he's read! I was surprised to see that it wasn't on YouTube anywhere, so... I uploaded the clip myself, heh. Enjoy!

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