John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot

Law & Order ... of the Phoenix

Our son told me about this video, a parody of the Harry Potter movies AND Law & Order. Nick actually was unaware of the TV series, as it went off the air three years ago, but he still found it funny. If you know the show (the doink-doink, the bad puns that the detectives make), it's even more of a smile. 

 

Yay, it's the weekend.

Party on, Garth. Party on, Harry and Ron. 

 

When they call it a Harry Potter Nation, they're not quite kidding

The online fan community for Harry Potter exceeds the population of Canada. Other fanbases? Not quite as impressive, but no small business at all. 

As spotted on I Can Has Cheezeburger, at least its sci-fi branch. 

About Spider-Man's nose

Someone connected a few dots to the Harry Potter side of things. From 9Gag.

Harry Potter's iPhone

And you thought that wand was so powerful.

Very clever. I like how Accio is set in the same font as Google.  

As seen as a T-shirt design on RedBubble. 

Tom Lehrer's A Christmas Carol (and a Daniel Radcliffe bonus)

Here is Tom Lehrer, one of the funny voices I heard a lot while I was growing up (my parents were big fans), singing A Christmas Carol, a still-apt poke at the true meaning of the season: money. 

I included a cover of this song for our annual Christmas mixtape ... sung by Daniel Radcliffe, no less. (And, it's probably worth noting, the rest of the cast of How To Succeed in Business WIthout Really Trying; the tune appeared this year on the annual Broadway Cares fundraiser for AIDS relief.) 

Radcliffe is actually a fan of Lehrer, and has demonstrated this notably in a Graham Norton episode on the BBC in which he raced through Lehrer's The Elements. The YouTube clip has been seen well over two million times ... with the Harry Potter fans probably squeaking by the Lehrer fan base, I would imagine! 

 

Harry Potter, objectified

The Harry Potter books are different, even though they're individual parts of a saga. If you were to sort them thematically or symbolically, how would you do it? This minimal-design approach by Brock Weaver is more than just eye-catching.

 

Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl (by having feet, or any number of other reasons)

There are a variety of ways to get the girl in the movies, and this chart (from Pleated Jeans) outlines all of them ... including a few ones that made me cringe and laugh at the same time.

Multiple Harry Potters, via Lego

We have tickets for later today for the final instalment of the Harry Potter film series. To get Nick excited this morning, I'm pulling out this, one of a series of videos made with Lego that tie into the Harry Potter books, particularly The Deathly Hallows.

This is the scene where the multiple Harry Potters prepare an escape.

The terribly cute Weasley family tree

Even angelic Fred looks cute. As spotted here.

A peek at the Harry Potter finale

The countdown is on ...Here's a look at what the second part of Deathly Hallows has in store.

Harry Potter: The pillow

How's that for cosy? And it even has a scar.

The producer even makes a Ron and a Hermione, too. As seen on GeekCrafts.

Daniel Radcliffe, A+ science student

Kudos to the Harry Potter star for knowing who Tom Lehrer is, let alone being able to knock off The Elements (almost) perfectly. From a recent appearance on Graham Norton's BBC show.

 

A perfect teaser line for the final Harry Potter film(s)

 The Battle of Hogwarts is the name of the grand finale that plays out in the last of the Harry Potter books, and it looks like the film adaptation will try hard to live up to readers' imaginations. The tag line - It All Ends Here - combined with a apocalyptic, painting-like scene of destruction, is clever.

Here's the trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. (Movie event of a generation? Did the Harry Potter series really have to pull out that kind of hyperbole?)

Harry Potter gets his report card

 

The boy came home with his report card today. It went well (a gift certificate from the bookstore proved it to him). The above, seen here, seems apt though for the end of the school year.