#published: 2007

[harry-potter-archive]

Potter Puppet Pals: The Mysterious Ticking Noise by Neil Cicierega

Description: Compelte (1 Video, 02:06)

Summary: Upon hearing a ticking noise, Snape decides to sing to it; other characters join in until the source of the ticking is found to be a pipe bomb, which subsequently explodes.

Published: Youtube; 2007 Last Updated: March 24, 2007

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Additional info:

2. this was published as news on Sparks' website:

3. Alvin and the Chipmunks

4. Everyone has seen it, but anyway. The Russia Today Report video.

6. When I'm Sixty-Four (Bonus videos: you may also enjoy this version performed by Russell and the band Baby Lemonade and this performance of All You Need Is Love where Russell shares the stage with Jarvis Cocker and The Residents, among others.)

[Edit: dangit I forgot an option. Sparks also joined Facebook in 2007.]

[samirafee]

#HAPPY FROG FRIDAY🐈‍⬛🐸🌺🐞

*Tails of American Bronte*

@samirafee

[coochiequeens]

Now that Neil Gaiman is being exposed for being an abuser can we talk about how he won the Newbery in 2009 even though since a whole chapter was previously published (and received another award) it shouldn't have qualified?

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2009

GRAVEYARD BOOK TO BE STRIPPED OF NEWBERY?

For the first time in history, a title selected for the highest honor in children’s literature, the John Newbery Medal, may be stripped of the prize. This past weekend, a committee of concerned librarians convened in Chicago with a petition demanding the American Library Association revoke the medal given to Neil Gaiman’s THE GRAVEYARD BOOK at the recent midwinter conference. At issue is the book’s eligibility for the award.

“The terms for the Newbery Medal are crystal clear,” states Carol Barbour of the Topeka Public Library, who is leading the anti-GRAVEYARD effort. “In order for a book to be eligible, it must be an original work published during the preceding year. If a book -- or even a portion of a book -- has been previously published it is considered out of contention.”

Ms. Barbour is referring to the fourth chapter of THE GRAVEYARD BOOK, titled “The Witch’s Gravestone,” which was previously published in at least two 2007 anthologies, WIZARDS : MAGICAL TALES FROM THE MASTERS OF MODERN FANTASY (Berkley) and M IS FOR MAGIC (HarperCollins.)

“Carol Barbour has no case,” says an ALA member, speaking on condition of anonymity. “Before a book can be considered for the Newbery, it must be thoroughly vetted by the Association for Library Service to Children. I’m quite sure that THE GRAVEYARD BOOK was deemed completely eligible in every regard. I can’t believe that anyone is taking this sideshow seriously.”

But the American Library Association apparently is taking Barbour’s complaint very seriously, even holding a rare closed-door meeting with her committee this past Sunday afternoon.

“It was insane,” said one ALA member in attendance. “Carol started the meeting by dramatically ripping the gold foil sticker off her copy of THE GRAVEYARD BOOK, then said that every librarian in the nation would soon be following suit when the award is revoked.”

Referring to Sunday’s closed-door session as “productive,” Barbour said, “I certainly wouldn’t be pressing this issue if Gaiman’s book contained just a few previously-published paragraphs, or even a short chapter. But “The Witch’s Headstone” is -- hello? -- forty-five pages in length and takes up nearly fifteen percent of the novel! When it was published in the WIZARDS anthology it won a Locus Award as the year’s ‘best novelette.’ Readers may approach THE GRAVEYARD BOOK expecting the literary equivalent of a gourmet meal, but what they’re really getting is Gaiman’s leftovers.”

Some ALA members have referred to Ms. Barbour as a “children’s book gadfly” who has tried to nominate herself for the Newbery, Caldecott

and other award committees many times in the past but has never received enough votes to serve on these juries. Some recall her aborted attempt to revoke the 2007 Newbery winner, THE HIGHER POWER OF LUCKY, because of its “unwholesome language.” Last year she protested Brian Selznick’s THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET winning the Caldecott because she considered it “too heavy for wee hands to hold.” But this year she seems to have found some major-league support in her attempt to bring down THE GRAVEYARD BOOK. The picture on the left shows a triumphant Barbour (in blue, holding Gaiman's book) after last Sunday’s meeting, posing with Shirley Sach of Ball State University, who served on the Newbery Committee that selected THE HIGHER POWER OF LUCKY and Lotta Shoppe of the Van Pelt Public Library, who was a member of the jury that awarded KIRA-KIRA the prize in 2005.

The American Library Association has issued a press release stating that the Association for Library Service to Children is “seriously” considering Barbour’s petition. If it takes the unprecedented move of revoking Gaiman’s award, they must decide whether a new winner will be selected -- possibly chosen from one of this year’s four Honor Books -- or whether 2009 will just go down in the record books as the first and only year in which no official winner was named.

Upon learning that his book may be stripped of the Newbery, author Neil Gaiman twittered, “@$#&! I might lose the @$#&ING NEWBERY! THIS IS SO @$#&ING AWFUL!”

When told of Gaiman’s comments, Carol Barbour rolled her eyes and said, “Isn’t that almost word-for-vulgar-word what he said when he thought he won the award? Hello? Even his tweets are repeats.”

The American Library Association has said they will make a ruling in this case very soon -- possibly as early as today, April 1, 2009.

POSTED BY PETER D. SIERUTA 

That chapter won a Locus award in 2008 the year before it became a chapter I the graveyard book.

https://www.locusmag.com/2008/Locus_Awards_Winners.html

And that's not even going into the theories that the committee behind the Newbery was trying get extra attention by giving it to Gaiman on January 26, 2009 soon before the much anticipated Coroline was released on February 6, 2009.

[pup5000-af]

dudes. just realised yesterday was Sulfuses B-day 💥

[things-ford-pines-missed]

Things Ford Missed #73: The Twilight Saga.

yeah. he missed a lot.

also, while we’re here:

Thing Ford Missed #74: The First Four Twilight Movies.

(at least he gets to see breaking dawn part two with everyone!)

[lesbiangiratina]

Straight up kinda thought they were about to kiss here is it really possible for a gear and a forbidden beast to fall in love

[throughdarkeningskies]

being a warrior cats fan is seeing a design for a cat that's like 1% off what you imagine that cat to look like and just having no idea who tf it is. is this bluestar jayfeather stonefur or an unusual design for graystripe. is this firestar or one of his billion descendants. is that sorreltail or an oc

[catholicxknees]

Some excerpts from an interview featuring Adam in Kerrang 1158

Via simplysonia on livejournal

[fideidefenswhore]

After 1536 the only bard to comment on affairs of state with any regularity was Lewys Morgannwg, who as unofficial poet laureate continued to praise Henry for his imperial qualities as the heir of Brutus and a second Charlemagne, and (in an allusion to the laws of 1534) for disciplining the unruly Welsh for their own good. The opportunistic poet who before the break with Rome had honoured the monastic vocation in an ode to the abbot of Neath now commended the king for suppressing the corrupt monasteries, and yet he did not entirely abandon his attachment to the traditional faith. After the fall of Anne Boleyn, who is held responsible for promoting the 'new religion', Lewys denounced her as a second Alice Rowena, whose corruption had betrayed the kingdom of the Britons in 'the treachery of the long knives.' In the same poem the king is urged to prefer local men before Englishmen of low breeding to high offices, for the sake of security and contentment of the realm.

British Consciousness and Identity: The Making of Britain, 1533-1707, edited by Brendan Bradshaw, Peter Roberts

[pochapal-pokespe]

fascinated by the weird space that technology exists in pokespe but particularly in the sinnoh arcs

[possession1981-moving]

not to be an academic fanboy on main but i LOVE reading elizabeth wilson so sooo much

[clockworkcheetah]

authors who write primarily books for young teens need to stop acting like a 14 yr old never being love in is somehow weird and freakish

[nephyria]

people have been earnestly writing up Tumblr Culture/Site Function How-To’s for the bird site migrants and I’ve been reading them as a dual-platform user and was like

something’s missing. can’t put my finger on it—

but I have received an ask from a New Tumblr User (20 hours old) and I finally know where the gap is!

Y’all…they do not know how to do Tumblr Anon Hate 😔 they’ll try to do generic sexual harassment to you in your inbox and attach their whole username (!!!), which you can go to and see their One (1) post and all their likes (public, unlocked) where you can see how very much they cannot get anyone to fuck them (1000 likes, all from what is clearly One Keyword Search)

I will not be doing a write up of how to do anon hate properly, and I hope nobody else does so we can observe these clowns in their proper enclosure (comically small car) as they invite circus monkeys with guns inside with them. I wanna see how it affects the ecosystem

[hippo-pot]

just tried watching The Guild. <2 minutes in and i can confidently say it's not aging well

[lunaticbookblog]

Mistborn: The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

I can’t remember the last time I was so aggravated by a book. I wanted to like this book. The first 100-200 pages were a good start and an improvement on book 1. Then it took that momentum and seemed to spin its wheels for the next 300 pages. Certain main characters were so frustrating to the point I almost rage quit. (Not you, Sazed. You’re just fine the way you are). The plot felt like it was putting up important questions to be answered, then ignoring those questions in favor of literally anything else just for the sake of filling space.

It did have more character development that I was craving for some of the side characters, and introduced some new characters who quickly became my favorites of the series so far. Tindwyl was a treat, Breeze was a delight, and I could read a whole book of OreSeur and kandra lore.

The first book in this series left me wanting to feel more strongly. I guess I got what I asked for with this book. It definitely made me feel things - mostly impatient, frustrated, and annoyed.

However, there are a lot of overarching plot questions that create a tantalizing enough mystery. So I will be reading book 3.

“I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.”