Channeling (or not).

[pauraque_bk]

I've seen a couple of people linking to the Salon article reporting the rumors that during last week's debate, Bush was being fed lines by a prompter.

Now Mark Lieberman of languagelog (which has had several recent entries discussing the speech patterns of the candidates) analyzes the evidence in what seems to me to be a scientific and unbiased way.

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On to a less bizarre subject. I'm very happy with the ficlets I received for the first lines meme. You guys are great!

fernwithy wrote Buffy fic.

atdelphi wrote Peter/Filch.

fabu wrote PotC fic.

_hannelore wrote Ron & Neville.

thepiratequeen wrote Neville & Harry.

gracefulfool wrote Hermione & Ron.

malograntum wrote Percy & Wormtail.

keladryb wrote Toby/Danny (West Wing).

gaeta wrote Peter/Remus and attempted to outdo me in the squick department. What say you, did she succeed? *g*


Is it just me, or have memes been unusually entertaining lately? More fun and participatory, less random waste of time.

Comments

[jheaton.livejournal.com]

That Language Log essay was really interesting. Thanks for posting the link!

[pauraque]

No prob. That's one of my favorite blogs.

Also, your name sounds very familiar to me. Were you a presenter at an HP convention at some point?

[jheaton.livejournal.com]

No, I've never presented at an HP convention. I'm fairly new to (and not particularly active in) online HP fandom, so I don't know where you would have seen my name, unless you just happened to run across it in another LJ comment or in one of the tiny handful of FAP threads I've posted in.