While all the pointy-headed liberal elites are off at the flim festival, we got to watch the new Harry Potter. It was good! I liked it!
I think what I like best is that it just doesn’t care. “Chum,” it says, “I’m adapting book 6 of a gigantically successful 7-book series. I don’t need things like ‘narrative’ and ‘causality’. All I need is those kids and a selection of the most impressive British actors I can find and then I can bloody well do what I like with them!”
The film is almost incomprehensible on its own terms, but for the initiated it’s great. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I particularly enjoyed Jessie Cave’s Lavender Brown, whose completely over the top scenery-chewing, in the hyper-real world of these books, curled all the way around again to start ringing true.
Also great: every visual gag involving Luna.
Day: July 22, 2009
Breaking Moon Silence
I can remain silent no longer. The Daily Mail has run “never before seen” “photos” that purport to show “Neil Armstrong” on the “moon”. Luckily the comments there are full of people who aren’t so foolish as to believe that ridiculous story!
No, we’re on to you, NASA. The real truth is plain and now that I’ve seen it I can’t keep it to myself. If you believe the lies about MEN on the MOON, then I urge you to look at the evidence proving the whole thing to be an enormous hoax. Follow this link. Your eyes will be opened.