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Potter Revisited
READERS, BEWARE! THIS POST IS TEXT ONLY! IF YOU DON’T LIKE TO READ, IF YOU DO NOT CARE FOR HARRY POTTER, CEASE AND DESIST NOW. READING THIS WILL GIVE YOU NO PLEASURE! NO PICTURES, JUST WORDS!!!!!!!!! (NOT THAT THERE’S ANYTHING WRONG … Continue reading
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Tagged alan rickman, albus dumbledore, alfonso cuaron, Becky Glenn, buckbeak, daniel radcliffe, david thewlis, dementor, draco malfoy, dursley, emma thompson, emma watson, gary oldman, Harry Potter, harry potter and the chamber of secrets, harry potter and the deathly hallows, harry potter and the goblet of fire, harry potter and the half blood prince, harry potter and the order of the phoenix, harry potter and the philosophers stone, harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban, harry potter and the sorcerers stone, hermione granger, independent bookstore, JK Rowling, Maggie Smith, michael gambon, moony, padfoot, peter pettigrew, prongs, quidditch, rebecca glenn, remus lupin, ron weasley, rubeus hagrid, rupert grint, sirius black, the book frog, the grim, timothy spall, torrance, voldemort, wormtail
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Below the Cream Line
A couple posts ago, I offered Thistle’s and my top 10 actresses, and noted how difficult it was to come to our final conclusions. Everyone on the list has played an integral part in our lives, for better or for worse; … Continue reading
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Tagged Academy Award, angela lansbury, anne bancroft, diane lane, goldie hawn, gwyneth paltrow, holly hunter, ingrid bergman, Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, joan crawford, jodi foster, Rachel weisz, robin wright, rosalind russell, tilda swinton, vanessa redgrave
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The First Annual Las Vegas Gourmet Holiday Dinner
It began with two days of shopping and cooking. Thistle wanted to throw a holiday party for friends, co-workers and neighbours, and solicited my assistance. We prepared Mrs Robinson’s Turkey (see previous post, A Truly Noble Bird); Roast Stuffed Loin … Continue reading
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AFI Can Suck It
At Thistle’s Christmas party, we did not simply cook for 16 hours, we determined to make a list of the great film actresses of sound cinema history. Clearly, any compilation of this kind is clearly a subjective one, and anyone … Continue reading
Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires
There’s a big difference between Smokey the Bear when one is a child: and when one is an adult: But what made me think of all this was watching Star Wars (I never miss a chance to listen to Carrie Fisher commentary), when Darth Vader … Continue reading
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Tagged Alec Guinness, Bambi, Bananas Foster, Carrie Fisher, Darth Vader, Death Star, Obi Wan Kenobi, Star Wars
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More Unexpected Gay Characters in Cinema
The I Hope Disney Doesn’t Sue Edition The predatory fox and cat from Pinocchio… who, if my memory serves, were called John Worthington Foulfellow and Gideon. I always thought they had a little somethin’-somethin’ between them, but maybe it was simply … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventures of Mr Toad, Aladdin, Ariel, Beauty and the Beast, Darth Vader, Divine, Eric Blore, Gaston, Jafar, John Waters, Little Mermaid, Pinocchio, Rip Taylor, That Darn Cat, The Lion King, Timon and Pumbaa, Ursula
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WE ARE NOT AMUSED…
So The Facebook tricked me into revealing my name to sign up for it, even though I thought I could sign up just under my blog’s name… Or it might be my fault, since I’ve got a low level competence … Continue reading
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Tagged facebook, george orwell, richard grant, streetcar named desire, young frankenstein
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