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Angie can play anything she wants.

bslim, you just made me SO excited for the next movie. SO EXCITED.

Hmmm Angelina. I would love to make her spine glow...

Damn warn us about that picture of Paltrows legs will ya?! I just ate lunch. And the chicken wings had more meat on them....

Who know who got the shaft in this Disney-fied version of the “Firefly” cast?

Given the extra details they've added to the ol' tight pants, I'm giving this one to our Mr. Reynolds.

Bah, Lady Gaga is totally Baltar. She just wants to be a Cylon.

Snape Neville Snape Neville Snape Neville ...

Oh, of COURSE! So, there's an even bigger hero than the kid who didn't feel a single moment of love or affection for the first 11 years of life and when he finally found the comfort of good friends and a safe environment, the most powerful witches and wizards in existence started trying to kill him constantly with physical and psychological torture, not to mention his mentor relentlessly using him as a pawn against a man who was essentially the devil incarnate, until he *omitted to avoid movie spoileration*???????

Believing that kind of bullshit is Hipster 101, folks. Drink it in.

Fuck all y'all, the real hero of that damned series is Hermione Granger. Harry would have been dead five minutes into the series without her. SHE DID EVERYTHING FOR YOU, POTTER, YOU SHITTY EXCUSE FOR A WIZARD.

NEVILLE? What the hell is wrong with you people?!

At least SNAPE is an intelligent answer!

#waytooworkedupoverdamnedkidsliterature

Take it easy there, figgy. Why don't you sit this next one out, stop talking for a while.

Though if you call Neville stupid again I may have to pound on you a little bit.

Amma kick branded in the FACE.

*Deep breath*

Anyway. I just don't get this whole "Yay, Neville!" thing. Where the hell did that come from? He did one useful thing in the last book. And he didn't even think about it! UGH.

I think I'm gonna go with KBalls on this.

1) Neville's parents were also taken from him
2) He grew up without a lot of obvious affection from his gran (though we know she loved his little Longbottom heart)
3) He was an inveterate f*ck up at Hogwarts, academically (barring the Herbology)
4) Was not coddled or admired by teachers and fellow students
5) Did not have a close-knit circle of friends for much of his school career
6) Got no love from the ladies
7) Was called dumpy and useless and dim and pudgy and grew, against all odds, into one of the most valuable members of the DA, keeping things going when the Main Three were not there.
8) He's the everyman. Ron is SUPPOSED to be the everyman, but, really, it's Neville. And so we love him. Because he made much of himself when no one ever thought he would.

He did one useful thing in the last book.

Oh JeeeZusss

Thank you for making my point, Immodest Mouse. That list is impressive and absolutely makes him a lovable character, but it doesn't hold a candle to HP. The only things Potter had it better than Neville on was the friends and the teachers, but the teachers only revered him because of his celebrity, myth-like status; and that comes with its own set of problems.

FQ: How often are you releasing the Kraken?

Snorted tea all over my keyboard.

Figgy, to me Neville comes into his own in Order of the Phoenix (and I agree with you to a certain extent - I think it's here that Rowling begins to treat Neville as a round character instead of comic relief). Neville's parents weren't just TAKEN from him; his childhood was destroyed just like Harry's because of the BS prophecy. Re-read the St. Mungo's chapter and see if you don't love Neville just a bit more. ALSO, he grows so much with the support of Harry and the other members of the D.A. in that book and DOESN'T JUST DO ONE GOOD THING IN THE SEVENTH BOOK HE HAS KEPT THE RESISTANCE ALIVE AT HOGWARTS IN THE FACE OF THE CARROWS.

Ahem. I may go have some lunch myself.

THIS MAY HAVE MOVIE-RELATED SPOILERS IF YOU'RE PROTECTING YOURSELF THAT MUCH. I HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE BUT THIS IS MOVIE-RELATED.

I think I remember rumors of HRH + Ginny in older make-up. I think it's still happening. I'm hoping Harry calls his kid "Albus Severus" at least once so people can throw shit at the screen.

POSSIBLE SPOLIERS HAVE ENDED

I will actually bring feces. I just hope I don't confuse the doo-doo with my Junior Mints in the darkness of the theater.

I like Neville, I would have loved if the prophecy had actually been about Neville instead of Harry, but Kballs McKballs is right. (As always.)

"Snape is a hero, but not a good guy." Brilliant, Three-Nineteen.

On that Twitter thing: Obama didn't actually answer people's questions via Twitter. Some guy read Twitter user questions aloud, then Obama answered them aloud, at a news conference-type dealio.

So really, the only difference between this and people sending in questions via email is that at least these questions were limited to 140 characters.

Basically, Obama answered a handful of emails at a press conference. He didn't personally communicate one on one with the unwashed masses.

Oh how people want to make Twitter the most important thing in the universe. It's basically IM that's accessible to everybody, not just the one person you're IM-ing. Which to me makes it somewhat less than ideal as a means of communication.

I wish you'd learn to not take all my shouting so seriously, random person.

RE I Need More Allowance:

1) I didn't say he didn't respond to "real-time" tweets, I said he didn't respond one on one to people using Twitter. And he didn't. He answered questions the way he usually answers them. Sitting in front of reporters in the White House, speaking aloud while answering a question. Sounds like a fairly routine press conference to me. His responses apparently did not come via Twitter, but via a live webcast, which is cool, but not exactly the same as responding to Twitter users via Twitter.
2) Theoretically, in any "town hall" format, anybody can ask a question. But those questions still get selected by a "gatekeeper," I suppose to keep the idiot questions from wasting the time of the leader of the free world. There's no telling how many "are you a secret Muslim?" questions they had to wade through to get to actual intelligent queries. And that's what happened here. Somebody picked the questions he answered. Here's the New York Times (one of those old media thingies): "On Wednesday, the president will answer questions submitted during the past several days from Twitter users. The conversation, questions asked in 140 characters or less and answered in Mr. Obama’s typically extended manner, will be moderated by Twitter’s chief executive, Jack Dorsey. Hoping to avoid any accusations that the White House is managing the news, Mr. Pfeiffer and other aides repeatedly noted that questions would be selected in part by 10 Twitter users around the country who were picked by the company." Not exactly the ultra-democratic free-for-all that the Twitter executives would have us believe. According to CNN, Obama answered 18 questions. Out of thousands that were submitted.

The fact is, this "town hall," like pretty much every other appearance by the president, is highly controlled. I'm not saying it should or shouldn't be, just saying the reality is, the president and his handlers held a press conference. With questions selected by a very small group of interested parties composed mostly of the president's handlers and the executives of Twitter, who hope to leverage this event in order to increase Twitter's market capitalization. The company is, as we type, attempting to raise money to finance its operations (I assume they're trying to get some kind of venture capital thing going).

Maybe next time you should do some research, rather than buying into a tech company's hype about the democratization of the internet. Twitter is mostly concerned with monetization, not democratization.

That picture of Baby Kidman, where she's got that red splotch between her eyebrows . . . that's a poop face. Heh.

This is a well written article that I have bookmarked for future reference. Have a good.