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So after poking around on my f-list this morning the overall reactions to GoF seem to be "Very good, but not as good as PoA". And as I trust thunderemerald's taste implicitly, that's good enough for me. I'm a little disappointed as GoF was my favorite book (at least until HBP), but I'll suck it up and deal.

I figure tonight is mostly about hanging around with fellow fanatics, dressing up like a Hogwarts school girl and generally being silly. I'm also already planning a second viewing in the not too distant future as I'll undoubtedly want to see this one again, if for no other reason than to stare intently at the costumes. It's kind of sad that I'll shell out $10 bucks for the privilege of admiring the costumers' work for two hours, but there you are.

Costume geek, yo.

Anyway, I suppose I should get something aside from thinking about the movie tonight done today, so a quick "Yay, I get to see ravenmb, jakejr, aelfsciene, tersa, and rexluscus tonight!" And dinner at Tomatina's, yum! Now, off to work!

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via Hullabaloo:

In all seriousness, this may be a turning point. Murtha has said the unthinkable: "It is evident that continued military action is not in the best interests of the United States of America, the Iraqi people or the Persian Gulf Region." Yep. We've made a mess alright. But our continued presence is making things worse --- for everybody.

And the Republicans are predictably lashing out wildly with shrill accusations of "surrender." They are getting very nervous. This isn't 2002 and the codpiece isn't riding an 80% approval rating. The GOP still haven't yet absorbed the fact that his manufactured popularity was always a mile wide and an eighth of an inch thick.

Their patented jingo schtick is suddenly as starkly out of fashion as The Macarena. Woodwardian Bushism is revealed to be nothing more than a fad that people are now vaguely embarrassed to have embraced in public.

The White House response to Murtha? Smear! Smear for your lives!

Press Secretary Scott McClellan says the eve of fresh Iraqi elections "is not the time to surrender to the terrorists." ...

...McClellan says the administration finds the change of heart "baffling". He says Murtha seems to have endorsed the views of anti-war filmmaker "Michael Moore and the extreme liberal wing of the Democratic party."

Yeah those ex-combat Marines are all a bunch of tree-hugging liberal hippies. Dang, Unkie Karl really is off his game these days...