remember we talked about this a while back. And I couldn’t remember any books that did it? It’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. That’s the book. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. was set using Adobe Garamond, a 16th Century whooseywhat font, redrawn by Richard Slimbach in 1989, who, by the way, is Louise’s hero. Anyway, there you. Except for, maybe, the part about Louise, that’s what it says in the back of the book.
it’s been driving me nuts for over a month now. whew.
Daily Archives: April 26, 2004
Yup that Biff. What a character. Always trying to get away with something. Although if it wasn’t for him.
I think that Christopher Moore’s Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal is going to end up being one of my favorite books. Or one of those books I push off on to people, insisting that they read it. Like I’ve recently been doing with Good Omens, like I’ve always done with Wicked and Last Days of Summer. If it’s been awhile since I’ve pushed Last Days of Summer at you… considered yourselves pushed. Go read it, it’s delightful. Anyway, I’ve been reading Lamb quite slowly, and the only reason I can think of, for that, is.. I know the end and I don’t want to get there. It makes me both want to go see the Passion of Christ, and more certain that I absolutely do not want to see it, at the same time. sigh… poor Jesus.
And the probably with listening to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, in my car is, it’s taking a gazillion times longer to listen to, than to read. Consequently I am completely caught up in the world of Hogwarts, I’m desperate to see the new movie, and I’d sell Evildeb’s soul to find out when the sixth book was coming out. If she had one. And right now, I am completely obsessed with how horrible that nasty Delores Umbridge is… I cannot remember ever hating a character as much as I hate her right now. Oh she’s awful. You see, if I were reading, this whole thing would be over with in a matter of days. 24 hours to read the book, and a couple of days to break away from the influence of it. But it’s taking weeks to listen to it.
Cause you never know when a Swedish girl’s gonna want to hve sex with you.
I adopted Pru from a no-kill shelter called Purrfect Pals. They are having an Average Joe Cat Show and Photo contest. While I am not going to enter Pru in the cat show, I do have some pictures I might submit for the photo contest. The submission fee is a nice way to donate money to the shelter anyway. With the possibility of getting a ribbon!
Meanwhile, I got this link, from Neil Gaiman’s website, and so if i don’t get anything done all day because I am busy looking up Norwegian slang, it’s his fault. [like I am going to take responsibility for my own actions….. fladdermus*, please!] Norwegian because there’s a chance I can pronounce it. I’m avoiding French because there is someone fluent in French on my team. And while he’d probably find whatever I had to say extremely funny, he’d also correct my pronunciation. You don’t want someone to correct your pronunciation after you’ve called them a connard. But like anyone is going to know the difference if you pronounce pikktryne improperly. Besides, what good will French curses do in my family? Much better to have something Swedish or Norwegian. Gaelic would be best, but I’d never be able to pronounce that.
* actually Swedish. It basically means slutty bitch. I wanted plain old bitch, but I couldn’t resist the way this one sounded… fladdermus. The swedish dictionary was kind of shocking really. I don’t know whether to be proud or embarrassed. After all, I’m only about 1/8th Swedish.