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Proof Nicolas Cage Is A Vampire For Sale On Ebay
The photo dates back to 1870, so I’m going to guess he’s 181 years old, minimum. More »
Andy Warhol’s Landlord Asked Him Not To Throw Parties At The Factory
Sounds like someone was mad he wasn’t invited. More »
“Horsemaning” Is The New Planking, Was The Original Planking
New stupid photo meme alert! The practice of “horsemaning” is spreading like wildfire, and it goes a little something like this. More »
“Historically Hardcore” Posters Compare 50 Cent, Bret Michaels to Famous Figures
Last week I posted some tweets from Columbia College Chicago’s Twitter page, where whoever was in charge of outreach used pop culture references to attract applicants to the school. The trend seems to be catching: “Historically Hardcore“, a series of posters by art director Jenny Burrows and copywriter Matt Kappler, unites the accomplished men from your high-school history books with male celebrities found on reality TV and Twitter. More »
Take a Harry Potter vacation!
You can actually go and look at many of the locations used in the Harry Potter films. For instance:
Sites selected for the films certainly hit the jackpot.
At Alnwick Castle, Britain’s largest inhabited castle after Windsor Castle, Philippa Pendrich said, “We have done very well thank you”.
At the castle used for exterior shots in the movies, she said “Pre-Potter we had about 68,000 visitors a season. Last year we had about 195,000″.
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Follow the footsteps of the world’s favourite wizard through Oxford’s… More »
Delores Umbridge – let’s talk
She is probably one of JK Rowling’s more disturbing characters, at least for me, that is. I found her absolutely horrifying, especially the whole writing on Harry’s arm thing.
Here’s a few quotes:
Delores Umbridge:"I’m terribly sorry to contradict you Minerva but as you will see from my note Harry has been achieving very poor results in his classes with me"Prof McGonagall "I should have made my meaning plainer……..He has achieved High marks in all DADA tests set by a competant… More »
Timeline of the Wizarding World
Via the Leaky Cauldron, the Harry Potter Lexicon has just unveiled a timeline of the wizarding world – and let me tell you, it’s AWESOME, dude.
Now, this doesn’t just cover Harry Potter stuff, although that is a big part. It starts clear back in Ancient Egypt and covers both the Muggle and Wizarding worlds, side by side, in chronological order. For instance:
The 10th century BC
before 1000 BC(Y-2979)
Ancient… More »
In Memoriam – Cedric Diggory
I found this GREAT video basically paying tribute to Cedric Diggory; who died after Voldemort shot him with one of the unforgiveable curses. You know, even though I’ve watched this movie like eleventy hundred times, I STILL can hardly take it when Cedric’s dad finds out that he’s dead – my 12 year old and I both just sit there and sob.
Tags: cedric diggory, voldemort, order of the phoenix, harry potter
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