My rantings.

Last time I posted I told my story of how after  Melissa's requested people to send in unanswered questions, how I made the first comment on the news item that I suspected a special guest my be in the offing, and how Melissa was denying it on the board but confirming it to me by email. Well the Pottercast has happened and after a pre intro sequence clearing up the House elf issue, this happened.

I'm sure you've all read the wonderfully exciting news that JK Rowling is to make an appearance on Pottercast. And how Melissa has aimed an apology directly at me for semi lying to me. Well I have to make a confession of my own. Melissa e-mailed me the day after I posted that comment on Leaky main to tell me that my suspicions were correct, so I've actually known, pretty much, all along. Well lets face it, asking us at a time when we would be summing up our years end experience what we didn't learn is sort of a strange thing to ask of us. 
The secrecy is of course understandable I mean imagine what pottercasts inbox would have been lie if they openly announced "JK Rowling is on the show. Submit your questions."  I reckon it'd be pandimonium (probably still was).
So, lets hope we'll all enjoy this wonderful interview.

Recently I visited the out of the way coastal town of Kilkee in County Clare. A popular holiday spot with a nice beach, cliff walks, restauraunts, hotels, pubs and holiday homes. Anyway at the start of the cliff walk there is this statue which I took a few photos of.

Now thats all fair and well. A nice statue erected for a decent Raquetball player. But this wasn't any old raquet player. This man went on to become the vision of a well loved character the world over.

I had myself a Tripple whammy of movies yesterday. I went to see The Simpsons Movie, followed by only my second viewing of Order of The Phoenix, followed by Transformers.

I'll start wih the lastfilm I saw and work my way back. Trnasformers was a visually awesome movie if a little weak on the storyline and character development.

I noticed mainly a line from Sirius when he was talking to Harry in the Tapestry room after sendin Kreacher away. "He was never a nice house elf. At least, not to me." A small throwaway line that went on to mean a hell of a lot in Deathly Hallows.

And now to the first movie I saw yesterday. The Simpsons Movie. I thought it was pretty good, like a feture length episode o the program. But one scene in it had me rubbin my eyes to make sure I was seeing what I thought I was seeing. Yes Homer turned Spiderpig into Hammy Porker for a brief scene but later in the movie when the Springfield town folk are escaping with Cletus the slack jawed yokel distracting the EPA guy I noticed somthing on his arm. The Dark Mark of the Deatheaters. Take a look for yourself. (image from his Wikipedia profile.)

I went to this website http://simpsonizeme.com/ and put up a photo of myself and this is the result.

Pretty Cool huh?