Thursday, March 12, 2009
Political Mayhem Thursday with guest booger iharrypotter
It's been a while since I have handed off Political Mayhem Thursday to someone else, so this week I'm giving things over to iharrypotter. Personally, I stopped watching the Harry Potter movies after they introduced that Jar-Jar Binks character...
This is the single biggest conspiracy in Harry Potter history since that whole gnome debacle at PotterFiesta 2002.
In fall 2008, Warner Bros. announced that the film adaption of the amazing novel Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince would be delayed until Summer 2009. This made many fans very angry, even to the point of total and utter boycott. I even met a couple at the Potteria Convention of January 2009 who were boycotting the entire Warner Bros. corporation because of the delay! But why does this affect you? Two words - the recession.
All the press is about the housing collapse and the sputtering car sales, but those are economies that rake in $200,000 from a single sale. Most people only buy new houses every 15 years or so (although I met a man at a Harry and the Potters concert in '04 that claimed that he had bought a new house every year since the first book was released), but the movie industry is an economy that is much more alive, with people buying tickets every two weeks or so. The movie adaption of Half-Blood Prince should have been king of this industry, following on the footsteps of the very popular (but inaccurate) adaption of Order of the Phoenix. But we plunged into this recession, and now, people just don't have the money to buy movie tickets as often.
However, the timely release of this movie could have saved us from this awful recession. When did the economy really plunge? November. When was Half-Blood Prince supposed to be released? November. Connect the dots for yourself. Could $300 million dollars in ticket sales have pushed the Bush bailout (thought to be the idea of one of Voldemort's lost stepsons, see The Leaky Cauldron Archives, 12 Dec 2008) over the top? Yes!
The only question left now is whether timely action from President Obama by adding some money to the stimulus package to "encourage" WB to release the movie soon could save us yet. As all of us "in the know" are aware of, Obama is a huge HP fan (spotted at MuggleNet LIVE! 2007 ordering a Cedric Diggory-Dog from the snack bar by a spy camera). Couldn't he add a measly $3 billion to the package to "convince" the movie execs at WB to release it now?
Also, what is your opinion on how the money in the stimulus package should be spent?
-iHarryPotter, voted "most likely to name at least one child 'Albus Severus' " by the readers of MuggleNet.com!
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This is even weirder and harder to follow than the socialist stuff Lane posts.... or the RLL posts in reply.
# posted by 
: 1:57 PM
: 1:57 PM
Come on Iplawguy, it's "RRL" and my stuff isn't hard to follow. Repetitive? Sure. Trite? Maybe. Wordy? Absolutely. But hard to follow?
However, I agree. This post is as hard to follow as Lane's comment on Baudrillard. I must admit, I just don't get it.
However, I agree. This post is as hard to follow as Lane's comment on Baudrillard. I must admit, I just don't get it.
# posted by : 5:02 PM
: 5:02 PM
Dang. I couldn't remember if it was two Rs or two Ls, but since you're all southern and stuff, I just figured that your name must be Robert Lee L ____.
Or is that just a Virginia thing?
Or is that just a Virginia thing?
# posted by : 5:28 PM
: 5:28 PM
I think someone cast the Confundus charm on the Razor...
Texan and "southern" have very very different connotations IPLG... I wouldn't go there if I were you.
And I find Lane's posts very thought provoking. He is like our own T.S. Eliot, in a way. Now we just need to find his Pound to interpret... :)
Texan and "southern" have very very different connotations IPLG... I wouldn't go there if I were you.
And I find Lane's posts very thought provoking. He is like our own T.S. Eliot, in a way. Now we just need to find his Pound to interpret... :)
My Pound's name is Andrew. He TAs math at U. of Memphis.
'sides, Pound was crazier than Eliot, although my favorite poem is, of course, "The Waste Land."
'sides, Pound was crazier than Eliot, although my favorite poem is, of course, "The Waste Land."
it's been so long I'm going to need to re-read book 7 the week before the movie comes out.
And Ginger I agree - Southern and Texan are two very different things! As long as I have have lived inthe south, I am not a Southerner.
Have a great day y'all
And Ginger I agree - Southern and Texan are two very different things! As long as I have have lived inthe south, I am not a Southerner.
Have a great day y'all
HaaaaHaaaaaHaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!! Deeeeeeep Belly Laugh!!!!! It's true! It's true! But I know the TRUE story behind the date change! HE WHO MUST NOT BE NAMED is like totally responsible for the recession. He owns WB, don'chaknow????? But Professor Osler, Jar-Jar and everything is in Star Wars and all, not Harry. Or is is Star Trek???? But anyway, it's Voldemort's fault!!!!!!!!!!!!! We need to keep our villains straight--that's what Aristotle said: "A is A; and not-A is not-A, and A qua A is A, too. And Voldermort qua Jar-Jar is NOT a sound or valid perspective.
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