http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/7/14/imax-3d-releases-list-of-venues-for-harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince

In a new press release, Warner Bros has announced that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: The 3D IMAX experience is the widest IMAX international release ever, opening in 62 theaters internationally. As stated before, three cities here in the US will see the film open in IMAX tomorrow, with more due to follow shortly. The piece also reminds us: "In IMAX(R) 3D theatres, the film will featur...

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/7/14/new-photos-interview-with-trio-in-usa-today

The USA Today has a new feature online containing new interviews, photos and section where the Trio and Tom Felton weigh in on their favorite scene from a Harry Potter film. In the main article which features on the lives ahead post-Potter, the piece also notes how far the Trio has come in the years since beginning on the Harry Potter films.he young actors are no longer the shy, slightly awkwar...

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/7/14/newsweek-feature-on-the-hpa-and-quest-to-change-world-through-charity

It is no secret that Harry Potter fans are dedicated, giving caring people. Newsweek has a new profile online tonight of one bright example of a Harry Potter fan: Andrew Slack of the Harry Potter Alliance. In a piece titled "How Crazy are Harry Potter Fans," the piece focuses on the efforts of Andrew and the HPA to reach out and make a difference in this world through acts of charity and raisin...

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/7/14/half-blood-prince-review-roundup

Earlier this morning Joe from UK Rottentomatoes.com emailed about the collection of reviews they have on their website for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Hours later and a slew of reviews are still pouring in, with the movie "98% Fresh on the Tomatometer which makes it the freshest film of the franchise to date! Azkaban is in second place with 89%." The consensus: "Dark, thrilling, and...

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/7/14/ign-and-the-top-25-harry-potter-characters

As a fun way to help build excitement before the release of Half-Blood Prince, IGN has created their Top 25 Harry Potter characters. Noting that they selected and listed the characters "based on overall fan reaction, impact on the
franchise (novels and films weighed equally), character relevance to
the best moments in the series, and significance in the Potter mythos." Starting at number 25 (Lo...

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/7/14/heyman-imelda-staunton-to-return-as-umbridge-for-deathly-hallows

As reported previously, Harry Potter film producer David Heyman made an appearance at an Apple store in Los Angeles. Later SS was able to get a few minutes with Mr. Heyman who passed on some nuggets about the upcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows films. As heard in this audio recording here on youtube, Mr Heyman confirmed the return of Imelda Staunton as Umbridge. He also told them abou...

I know how hard text tattoos can be, especially when requesting a particular font. Does anybody have shop recommendations for Orange County, Ca?

Hey any of you late-nighters. We're sprinting over in the chat writeintothenight on AIM. IM guardiandae if you need an invite.

Hey all! I've made a couple of syndication feeds for various Gaia blogs and twitters, and realized I ought to link them here so that more people can friend them than just me. ;)

gaia_artistblog - feed of http://gaia-artists.blogspot.com/
gaia_devs - feed of http://twitter.com/gaia_devs
fin_twitter - feed of http://twitter.com/Fin101 (kind of dull, but sometimes he links to previews of things)

And I didn't make this one, but it couldn't hurt to mention:
gaia_rss - feed of Gaia's announcements

"The time for living words was over. They were deceitful, murderous, bloodsucking monsters, black as ink and bringing nothing but misfortune."

"Beauty that had lured him into a trap. Most birds were trapped with bread and a few tasy seeds, but the Bluejay could be caught by words and pictures."

"Well, what could be more suitable? thought Mo. A bookbinder's skin, sold for new books."

"Death and destruction felt deliciously real conjured up with the right words, and you could leave them ebhind between the pages as you pleased, at no cost or risk to yourself."

" 'Compared to me, the White Women are a bunch of sisters of mercy! But I'm stuck for the rest of my life in a story where there's no part for me but the role of a batty old woman!" ~Elinor.

You heard right! Assassination City Roller Derby is making an appearance on KNON 89.3FM's famous Sonic Assembly Power Hour with DJ Sista Whitenoise and DJ Woodtronic. this Tuesday night from ten to midnight CST in Dallas!

Wanna know what music Trigger Mortis likes to crack helmets to? Or what LuAnn Splatter's theme song is? How about the song GiGi Foulin' listens to pump her self up for the bout? These three ladies from Assassination City Roller Derby will be guest DJing and talkin' derby to ya for one night only!
Hear their favorite skatin' songs - some of it local and some of it not so local.

When: TUESDAY NIGHT, July 14, 10pm-MIDNIGHT CST
Where: KNON 89.3FM - Dallas, TX
Why: Because Roller Derby music rocks your face off

Listen LIVE at KNON.org!

Morrigan sets her heart on a goal, and Barris wakes up from a terrible idea hangover.

Originally published at The Murverse. You can comment here or there.

Hello all!

I thought I'd go ahead and post this here as well. I am looking for a few good guys and gals for my 2010 senior rep program. Here's the skinny:

For participating in our representative program, you will get a two hour photo session with the Brandi Thompson Photography team that includes up to three outfit changes. After our awesome session, you get to pick your favorite shot for your own personal ‘rep cards’ to pass out at school. You also get web sized images for your MySpace or Facebook, AND a free 8x10 print for Mom and Dad to put on the bookshelf.

Here's who we're still looking for:
McKinney: 1 - 2 guys
Allen: 1 - 2 guys
Plano: 2 - 3 girls, 1 - 2 guys
Richardson: 2 - 3 girls, 1 - 2 guys

You can see some samples by clicking here. You can send an email to brandi @ brandithompsonphotography.com!

I have started a new story, about a girl and a mysterious man she meets one night. It's rated PG 13 as of now, but might go up.

Part 1

and

Part 2


Hope you like!

- tennis: Novak Djokovic | Marat Safin | Dinara Safina | Armada Española (Janqui, Nando, Feli)
- Lions and cubs ♥

Teasers:



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Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life.

Translated into words, it's a cliche, but at the time I felt it not as words but as that knot of air inside me. Death exists - in a paperweight, in four red and white balls on a billiard table - and we go on living and breathing it into our lungs like fine dust.

In that time, I had understood death as something entirely separate from and independent of life. the hand of death is bound to take us, I had felt, but until the day it reaches out for us, it leaves us alone. This had seemed to me the simple, logical truth. Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.

The night Kizuki died, however, I lost the ability to see death (and life) in such simple terms. Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that. When it took the seventeen-year-old Kizuki that night in May, death took me as well.

I lived through the following spring, at eighteen, with a knot of air in my chest, but I struggled all the while becoming serious. Becoming serious was not  the same as approaching truth, I sensed, however vaguely. But death was a fact, a serious fact, no matter how you looked at it. Stuck inside this suffocating contradiction, I went on endlessly spinning in circles. Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

Title: Silver Lining
Continuity: MMPR - Pre Tommy
Pairing: Jason/Zack
Rating: G
Summary: Zack didn’t really understand why he had trouble attracting the ladies.
Disclaimer: Really not mine.
Word Count: 200
Notes: Thanks to queenriley for looking this over and all the encouragement!

Silver Lining