odds/ends otp

Gee! Oh, eff! cont'd

Couple weeks back we had some discussion of whether Peter was at Godric's Hollow the night the Potters died, whether he took V's wand, what he did with it afterwards, etc. Recently, TLC reported that a fan asked JKR about this point:

I also asked when Harries [sic] parents were killed by Voldermort, Wormtail turned into a rat and pretended to be dead. How then did he give Voldermort his wand and robe back once he found him and helped give him back his body ?, she told me (after tapping her nose!) 'he hid them'.

The robes too, eh? Alas, chresimos, our vision of Peter sorting through the racks at Madam Malkin's trying feverishly to estimate the Dark Lord's waist size may not be canonical after all...


With laughing song and merry dance

Last weekend, keladryb and my brother and I went to see The Mikado. I always forget how much I love that play. I have a tendency to sing the praises of the less-appreciated G&S shows, because... well, that's just the thing I do. But The Mikado's popularity is deserved.

It's so morbid -- I always forget that, too -- but it gets away with it because the characters are so charming, moreso than in any of the other plays. It always strikes me, when Ko-ko stops Nanki-Poo from performing the happy despatch in the first act -- characters in satires generally have ulterior motives, but at the moment Ko-ko reacts, he has none. He just doesn't want this guy to kill himself.

I got into G&S because of my mom. She started taking me to the Lamplighters' shows when I was eleven, and the first one we saw was The Mikado. Since then, I've seen all of the extant G&S plays but one -- most of them multiple times, and most of them with my mother.

Now I'd like to call your attention to "Lots of Good Fish in the Sea" by Merripestin at Slash Cotillion. It's short, G-rated, Katisha/Pitty-Sing, and please believe me when I tell you that it is absolutely tasteful and exquisite. As a mother might say to a child about hundred-years-old light opera: Try it, you just may like it.

'They came back at nightfall during the harvest festival, and it was under the light of lanterns, the first time I saw her that season. Pitty-Sing, that smug little cat who had clawed me for her sister's sake, that sly beautiful defiant child. She had a lantern on a stick and a plum in her hand. Our eyes met, a distance of fifteen paces between us...'


Where Bush-Cheney needs to be

This is an excerpt from an email sent to me by the Kerry campaign. In addition to the usual "give us money yay!" stuff, they provided some information on the average standings of winning incumbents before and after their conventions. Likely to be of interest regardless of what candidate you're backing.

( 'There are some basic benchmarks by which an incumbent's success can be measured as the campaign heads into the fall...' )

Baby's first priv

To most of you, this will mean nothing, but: I've been given I1 in g/unk. *n00bie squee*

odds/ends otp

Gee! Oh, eff! cont'd

Couple weeks back we had some discussion of whether Peter was at Godric's Hollow the night the Potters died, whether he took V's wand, what he did with it afterwards, etc. Recently, TLC reported that a fan asked JKR about this point:

I also asked when Harries [sic] parents were killed by Voldermort, Wormtail turned into a rat and pretended to be dead. How then did he give Voldermort his wand and robe back once he found him and helped give him back his body ?, she told me (after tapping her nose!) 'he hid them'.

The robes too, eh? Alas, chresimos, our vision of Peter sorting through the racks at Madam Malkin's trying feverishly to estimate the Dark Lord's waist size may not be canonical after all...


With laughing song and merry dance

Last weekend, keladryb and my brother and I went to see The Mikado. I always forget how much I love that play. I have a tendency to sing the praises of the less-appreciated G&S shows, because... well, that's just the thing I do. But The Mikado's popularity is deserved.

It's so morbid -- I always forget that, too -- but it gets away with it because the characters are so charming, moreso than in any of the other plays. It always strikes me, when Ko-ko stops Nanki-Poo from performing the happy despatch in the first act -- characters in satires generally have ulterior motives, but at the moment Ko-ko reacts, he has none. He just doesn't want this guy to kill himself.

I got into G&S because of my mom. She started taking me to the Lamplighters' shows when I was eleven, and the first one we saw was The Mikado. Since then, I've seen all of the extant G&S plays but one -- most of them multiple times, and most of them with my mother.

Now I'd like to call your attention to "Lots of Good Fish in the Sea" by Merripestin at Slash Cotillion. It's short, G-rated, Katisha/Pitty-Sing, and please believe me when I tell you that it is absolutely tasteful and exquisite. As a mother might say to a child about hundred-years-old light opera: Try it, you just may like it.

'They came back at nightfall during the harvest festival, and it was under the light of lanterns, the first time I saw her that season. Pitty-Sing, that smug little cat who had clawed me for her sister's sake, that sly beautiful defiant child. She had a lantern on a stick and a plum in her hand. Our eyes met, a distance of fifteen paces between us...'


Where Bush-Cheney needs to be

This is an excerpt from an email sent to me by the Kerry campaign. In addition to the usual "give us money yay!" stuff, they provided some information on the average standings of winning incumbents before and after their conventions. Likely to be of interest regardless of what candidate you're backing.

( 'There are some basic benchmarks by which an incumbent's success can be measured as the campaign heads into the fall...' )

Baby's first priv

To most of you, this will mean nothing, but: I've been given I1 in g/unk. *n00bie squee*