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I guess Portus is over now. There is still the Post-Portus Dance Party which starts in about three hours, but the name kind of implies that it really shouldn’t be counted.
The weekend was… interesting. Apparently at some point I pissed off Eris again and she decided that this week would be her revenge. [...]

On my 18th birthday a friend gave me two books, The Toa of Pooh, by Benjamin Hoff (still one of the best introductions to Taoism as far as I’m concerned), and All I Need to Know I Learned In Kindergarten, by Robert Fulghum. That evening was the beginning of my idle research into eastern [...]

So I’m looking down the barrel at one hell of a fun couple of weeks. While my luck didn’t grant me the privilege to head down to Orlando this weekend for the Nerdapalooza festivities, it has tossed me a few bones to compensate.
First up, this Saturday is the DC (actually Vienna, VA) stop on [...]

The Devil’s Snare
Lauren Fairweather
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For those who are not up to date on their Wizard Rock (WRock) knowledge, Lauren Fairweather is one half of the WRock group The Moaning Myrtles. About a year ago Lauren started writing songs outside of the Myrtles and The Devil’s Snare is her first solo album.
The first [...]

As we have seen across the book, convergence culture is highly generative: some ideas spread top down, starting with commercial media and being adopted and appropriated by a range of different publics as they spread outward across the culture. Others emerge bottom up from various sites of participatory culture and getting pulled into the [...]

When I posted on this site over a year ago, and said that I would start posting about things other then music I followed that post up with three posts about music. Since I am nothing if not predictable, let’s make a post about music.
The first sign that you are starting to get [...]

I think I may end up just biting the bullet and putting up a Lizz category. Seriously.
Wrock Fans by ~lizzilicious on deviantART
The above picture is one Lizz took at a Harry and the Potters concert. Props have to be given to Lizz for taking a great picture, but that’s not why I’m posting [...]

My mind tends to wonder when I’m driving back and forth to work. Sometimes I think about things I need to do. Sometimes I just have random thoughts about random things. And sometimes I end up thinking about things I’ve done. Tonight’s drive home involved the latter, though it left me [...]

I keep this up and I’m going to have to rename this blog the Liz Appreciation Society or something just as silly. Because you see Liz has pulled a reverse Samson in that she has actually increased her awesomeness by sheering off her red locks. She increased her awesomeness by first hosting one [...]

I need to give a hat tip here to Liz, who is the one who turned me onto the UK WRock group Split Seven Ways. A favor for which I’ll be indebted to her for a while yet to come.
I mention this because SSW dropped a new EP on Friday, called Slytherin Hearts. [...]