{"id":224,"date":"2007-08-10T18:44:21","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T23:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/2007\/08\/10\/excuse-me-im-going-to-go-listen-to-the-smiths\/"},"modified":"2007-08-10T18:44:21","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T23:44:21","slug":"excuse-me-im-going-to-go-listen-to-the-smiths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/excuse-me-im-going-to-go-listen-to-the-smiths\/","title":{"rendered":"Excuse me, I’m going to go listen to The Smiths"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows<\/em><\/strong> yet, don’t click here<\/a>. (Language, etc., advisory.)<\/p>\n

(While I’m on the topic of P\u00f6tterd\u00e4merung<\/em>, let me point out that there is a Potter-related poll in the sidebar. There is a similar poll, worded differently, on my other weblog<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Update: J.K. Rowling tells all<\/a> (spoilers, spoilers, spoilers),<\/p>\n

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You might have wondered where this site was this morning, and several other mornings recently. I wondered, too. Apparently, whenever there is emergency maintenance to be done at the hosting service<\/a>, or an outage or a kernel panic, the server where my site is currently stored is always affected. I guess if you go with a cheap hosting plan you get cheap service. Still, none of the other inexpensive web hosts I’ve used were as unreliable, not even my original free GeoCities site years ago.<\/p>\n

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sdbtemper.png<\/center><\/p>\n

I knew Steven<\/a> has a powerful mind, but I never realized just how mighty he is. According the the “recent comments” widget in Avatar’s sidebar<\/a>, “… Steven Den Beste ‘… has a temper and can toss building-shattering attack spells around.'” For your own safety, do not nitpick<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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While browsing around the Anime Tropes Wiki, I came across this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

When A Modest Proposal<\/em> was written a lot of people thought it was actually<\/em> talking about eating babies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some years back, a friend wanted to write a satirical letter-to-the-editor. I suggested that he read Swift’s dispassionate discussion<\/a> to see how it’s done. My friend mentioned it to his literature professor. The professor said, “What do you want to read that for? It’s about eating babies!<\/em>” He was the head of the honors program at Wichita State.<\/p>\n

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It may be a while until Guchuko plushies are available. Until then, there’s this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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