From Kal Penn's Twitter (freaking love that guy, awww Kutner)

So if the CA Supreme Court & voters are so concerned with the "sanctity of marriage", how about we make divorce illegal too? Any takers?
7 minutes ago from web

Ha, I'd love for someone to suggest that.

Out of curiosity, and mainly because I'm writing a paper on it and am very, very bored, how many of you, especially you non-British people, have heard of The Booker Prize?

Poll #1393270 The Booker Prize
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7

Have you heard of "The Man Booker Prize"?

*glomps everyone* hope you're having a good day!

Help!

I remember seeing ages ago a master list someone had kindly put together listing all the fic fests and when and where they were. Does anyone happen to know if that list still exists, and if so where it is? I’ve ruffled through all my different files where I might have saved such a thing, but no such luck has been had.

I’ve been so behind in keeping up with the fests over the last few months I haven’t been following recommendations as they were given. So far I’ve caught up on two of them and would love to catch up on the rest before I get lapped and this year’s posting gets underway.

In summary: does anyone have know where I might find said list of fic fests?

Hugs to you all, I hope you’ve had a pleasant weekend!

I’m so happy for you, America! Yesterday was so tense and bewildering. I couldn’t believe how many people around here had Obama/Biden badges and posters up. All day there was background chat on the election.

The one downside of the day had to of been a conversation I overheard between two guys that started out as “I’d rather there was a black male President than a white female”… Great, nice to know there’s still a purpose for feminism in this day and age. I truly hope one day that things like gender, race and religion won’t be a factor in these types of votes; it just sullies the whole thing.

Obama winning made me happy in lots of ways, mainly because I know now that come the next general election here when fucking David Cameron wins (no, I’m not a fan) there’ll be a nice country that will have a decent leader in charge.

This election has sort of brought to mind Labour’s 1997 landslide victory. Though I guess things can’t turn out as badly for Obama as they have done for Labour due to that great rule disallowing Obama a third term. Ya’d think dear old Maggie taught people that three terms was just too much. But then again, what do I know? I’m just an embittered Lib Dem, the likelihood of them ever getting into power is as slim as something very slim that had taken slimming pills and worn vertical stripes whilst standing in front of a mirror of slimness.

GO USA! … apart from those idiots planning to vote yes on Prop.8. Is it possible to swap them out with some lovely foreigners? Ideally myself, Alan Rickman, Ewan McGregor, John Barrowman and David Tennant. We could all live in a resort together… just throwing the idea out there.

Sorry to spam up your flist with this, but, but but! READ!

'Half-Blood Prince' release moved to July 17, 2009
Warner Bros. has just announced that the release date for "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" has been pushed back and will be released on July 17, 2009 instead of this coming November.

I thought there was something weird going on as soon as they pushed the trailer release date back so late, but still! EH?

Alan Horn, President and Chief Operating Officer, Warner Bros. stated:

Our reasons for shifting Half-Blood Prince to summer are twofold: we know the summer season is an ideal window for a family tent pole release, as proven by the success of our last Harry Potter film, which is the second-highest grossing film in the franchise, behind only the first installment. Additionally, like every other studio, we are still feeling the repercussions of the writers’ strike, which impacted the readiness of scripts for other films—changing the competitive landscape for 2009 and offering new windows of opportunity that we wanted to take advantage of. We agreed the best strategy was to move Half-Blood Prince to July, where it perfectly fills the gap for a major tent pole release for mid-summer.

Jeff Robinov, President of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, confirmed:

The release date change does not alter the production schedule for this or future Harry Potter films. Post-production on Half-Blood Prince was completed on time, and the studio’s release plans for the two-part Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will not be affected by this change. We know Harry Potter fans are eagerly anticipating seeing the final chapters unfold onscreen. In fact, the good news for them is that the gap will now be shortened between Half-Blood Prince and the first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Yeah right, it comes down to one bloody thing, which is of course money. They realised they, for some fucktard reason of their own making did not leave enough time to push (some might argue kill) this next film, so they push back the release date! I am for one very annoyed. If I'm not wrong the director said last month the film is finished, there is no other reason for them to do this than to really drag out the media campaign. Why they want to do this, who the fuck knows.

Seriously, news like this makes it more and more tempting to just push some cosplayers into doing a film. I just wanna see Harry breaking Draco's nose *sniff* why do they deny this?

Stuff quoted from http://hpana.com/news.20576.html

Okay, so despite saying I’d never post here I am, thinking that now I’m, hums, coming out of the darkness of lurkerdom, there should be somewhere, some post, in which people can abuse me (I can hope) as I go on a friending spam.

Terminus… what is there to say? My heart goes out to all of you I met, every single one. Not to wax emoish, but the prior year hasn’t gone my way. And that’s all I want to say about it, no more time shall be wasted on it. What’s done is done, who’s gone is gone, there’s nothing to be done about it now. I feel the sort of contentment that’s eluded me for, eh, ages.

There was so much about the convention to be loved; I won’t repeat it since there are others who have already said it far, far better than I could ever hope to. Bad things about Terminus, one word really sums it up – Hilton. What wankfucks. They went from saying we still owed them over $300 (the bill had been fully paid on day 1, so this was a surprise), then they claimed it was $31… then just to conclude the interaction, they gave one of my roommates something like $400 0.o um, okay then!

AHH! This was my first visit to the States, I’m still in total and utter shock that I’ve been, and now I’m back in my little, sleepy Surrey village very much in disbelief. What did I think of the grand USA? Well I’ve never been to a foreign country where everyone speaks English, it really made me forget I was abroad. I was left reeling every time I spoke and realised “OH! British! Right”. Truly I loved it. I’m feeling though that the Chicago area is slightly more conservative then I’m used to.

I think that about sums it up. The shock is, phaw, huge. Hilton, in the words of many others = epic fail. Fandom love = epic. I wish I had had the courage last year at Sectus to say hello to people, to really mix, but perhaps now was just the right time? If nothing else the last year has started to remove my, arg, I hate to use the word but, shyness.

So one last time, thank you one and all. My apologies to anyone who had to see me dance, even without alcohol I dance like someone having a fit. Further apologies to anyone I poked with my wand.

FANDOM LOVE!

Caty ~*~ aka Coconut-ice(22, since some fucker has coconut-ice on here, I’m just coconut-ice on IJ)

Gah, I need some sleep.


P.S. If I took random photos of you and you asked for a copy you'll have them soon as. Thanks!