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Holiday tourists overwhelm top Florida theme parks
WASHINGTON — Free-spending US tourists shrugged off economic worries to overwhelm Disney World and other top Florida theme parks this week, forcing them to temporarily shut the gates, local officials said Thursday. Some visitors to Legoland, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, and three Disney destinations found parking lots and…
Social justice for wizards
Alyssa Rosenberg has an interesting post up about how some people refuse to accept that "Harry Potter" has political themes. There are probably two camps of people who believe this, though it's obviously false (which I'll get into): a) people who just think politics is a nasty sporting event and…
Witches: are they out to get you or just minding their own business?
Here’s a story that makes me all warm and fuzzy with Christmas cheer. A decision by the local Salvation Army to refuse Harry Potter and Twilight toys donated for its Christmas campaign has angered some Calgarians. Capt. Pam Goodyear, a Salvation Army spokeswoman, said the Christian aid organization doesn’t support…
Save us all from portrayals of responsible alcohol use
Via Atrios, I read last night this moral panic that struck me as one of the funnier ones I’d read in a long time. It’s about the presence of (gasp!) alcohol in the latest Harry Potter movie. Apparently, the British are supposed to pretend that they have the same furtive…
JJ Abrams, a nation (or two) turns its lonely eyes to you
Last night, Marc and I went to see “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince”, which of course meant spending more than an hour waiting in line in the summer heat to even have a hope of getting decent seats. Which in turn meant a lot of time for talking,…
Saturday Battlestar Galactica blogging: Kids, it’s exposition time!
As usual, mega-spoilers. The first three rules of writing fiction are: 1) Show, don’t tell. 2) Don’t indulge exposition. 3) Seriously, exposition just comes across as lazy. With this in mind, everything’s a trade-off. There’s a really good reason to write a story or series of stories about a bunch…
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