Can anyone help me with recalling a fic please? I was reading it last year, mostly during the summer, I guess, but I've since lost track of it and I only now remembered how much I was enjoying it.
Harry Potter story. After "Order of the Phoenix" Harry inherits all the Black property, including a large manor house on the coast (in Scotland?), near which is a small cottage which is Sirius' old seventies-style "bachelor pad", and which is warded against wizards seeing it. Harry spends time there, meets a waitress in a local restaurant who turns out to be a famous young classical musician who also also moonlights (against the wishes of her record company) as a rock-n-roller. The waitress also turns out to be Sirius' illegitimate daughter, whom he didn't know existed, and an untrained witch.

-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....

I seem to recall some folks around here like Lucky Star. I bought a box of Series 1 trading figures, and it arrived today. (And that's the only good thing about being home sick today...)

There aren't any rare or repaint figures - each can be assembled in either of two poses. I got two each of Konata, Kagami, Tsukasa, and Miyuki, and one each of Kuroi-sensei and the "mystery figure" (who I couldn't say in my CDJapan review is Akira from Lucky Channel).

So... I'd like to get my money back on the duplicate Konata, Kagami, and Tsukasa. I might be persuaded to part with the duplicate Miyuki. Ten figures, plus shipping, plus Customs, comes out to approximately $65.00. Divide that by ten gives $6.50 each, then add your shipping cost from postal code K1V 0V4...

Any interest?

-Rob Kelk

"Actually, my goal is to write neat stories. The money just makes it possible for me to write them faster and then buy neat toys."

Ryk E. Spoor, 7 November 2007
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Story's a month old or so:
www.neowin.net/news/main/07/12/05/mpaas ... taken-down
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

It's that time again! No, it's not time to spin the Wheel of Morality (TM), it's time to select panelists for the Anime Central 2008 Fanfiction Panel!
Anime Central (www.acen.org) will take place on May 16-18 at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Rosemont, Illinois. If you're going to be attending Acen and you're interested in being on the panel, please send the following information:
1. Your name or preferred handle.
2. Your real name, if different.
3. A list of your preferred works, including any you may have written in the past year.
4. The URL of your website, if any, or where your works can be found.
5. If you've been on a fanfic panel before, and if so, where.
6. (OPTIONAL) Why you'd like to be on the panel.
Please private mail me at pmui1@PLEASENOSPAM.prodigy.net by March 21 if you're interested. The panel will be selected shortly after that.
(I'm sure you know what part to remove...it's in caps.) :-)
Hope to hear from you soon!
--Pearson "Doc" Mui

Linky.
Just thought this was a well-done bit.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

Bizarre TV Triva with photographic proof:
1930s Chicago in the Star Trek: TOS episode "The City On The Edge of Forever" is actually a redressed Mayberry from The Andy Griffith Show. I Kid You Not. Click through all the way to the last page to spy Kirk and Edith Keeler in front of Floyd's Barber Shop.

-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....

"So, who is she?"
"That's Nym-*oww*. Fine. That's Tonks."
"I suppose that means your full name's the Secret of Nym."
...

Somehow, that seemed funnier in my head.
*sigh*--
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel
"Camaraderie, adventure, and steel on steel. The stuff of legend! Right, Boo?"

Offered here because damn, maybe its just empty rhetoric but why can't every leader sound like this guy? I wish he was Canadian. The Liberals could use somebody this charismatic.
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Epsilon

In Japan, if a "teen idol" type of singer is disgraced, her single act that tarnished her is her last appearance in the media.
Unlike Britney Spears who is yet again having as breakdown....
Grrr.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

Saw this one on Usenet (no Google thread yet) and thought folks might want to play...
(Edit: There's finally a Google thread.)
David Damerell wrote:

Quote:

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Recently, in discussion here (uk.media.animation.anime - RK) and at Anime Night, it's been pointed out that yes, Yokohama Shopping Log technically is "post-apocalypse gun-toting lesbian bikers". So, the question is this - what's the best description you can come up with for any anime/manga which is completely accurate but wildly misleading?
I'll kick off with;
Bubblegum Crisis: "Secret Adventures of a Tokyo Lingerie Saleswoman"

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