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Beyond the Potterverse

Firefly Theme- Good enough for Astronauts

by korg20000bc 02.18.2010

Crew of the space shuttle Endeavor received their wake up call from their command with the Firefly theme song on February 12.  It seemed to go down pretty well too.
At 2:56 on the video you can join the action.
Treat it as your wake up call to join the Firefly discussion over on the forum.
Thanks to Black [...]

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LOST and Found: “What Kate Does”

by Travis Prinzi 02.16.2010

Last week, I began blogging about LOST at my other site, but I think I’m going to continue it here instead. As we continue to branch out into other conversations beyond the Potterverse, LOST is a good place to begin looking at story told on TV. Aberforth goes a little crazy when I try to [...]

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Percy Jackson and Harry Potter

by Travis Prinzi 02.13.2010

This weekend, the first Percy Jackson book-to-film adaption was released. It’s directed by Chris Columbus, who was at the helm of the first two Potter films. As with every other fantasy fiction series, it’s being compared with Harry Potter and also charged with stealing directly from it.
Nevertheless, a few trusted friends have told me the [...]

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Music To Get Lost To

by Jenna St. Hilaire 02.11.2010

All right, all you Lost fans. I admit to getting so creeped out by the episode where Locke “meets” Jacob with Ben that I never saw another, even though—or perhaps because—that was only the fourth or fifth episode I’d ever seen. As your resident wizard rocker, though, I have to apprise you of a fantastic [...]

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The Power of Story

by Arabella Figg 02.10.2010

On Sunday, Feb. 7, the Sally Forth comic strip was centered around Hillary’s continuing feelings of loss over the end of Harry Potter. To see it, go here and click on View Recent Entries.
How bereft we can feel when a beloved and powerful story ends, and how difficult we sometimes find it to move on. [...]

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Gamerizing Dante’s Inferno

by Dave the Longwinded 02.03.2010

Okay, so “gamerize” is a term I just made up. But, as a full-time grad student, now, I have some license to do such things. In fact, it’s sort of expected of us so long as we take at least ten double-spaced pages to define the term. But I’ll spare me the pain of writing [...]

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LOST Tonight!

by Travis Prinzi 02.02.2010

Any fans of LOST out there? Tonight, we get three full hours to start off the final season! (The first hour is recap.)
This has been a fascinating series of television, full of references to many of our favorite authors and philosophers (Charlotte Staples Lewis (?!), Edmund Burke, John Locke, among many others). The tension between [...]

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Favorite Movie Quotes!!!

by Dave the Longwinded 02.02.2010

With the inspiration of revgeorge, and the urging of Red Rocker, I shall open up this little post for us all to provide and discuss some of our favorite movie quotes. Whether you remember Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, George Clooney in Oh Brother, Where Art Though?, or Michael Gamb… Well, I guess I shouldn’t get [...]

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