impudent strumpet

1. When Hagrid took Harry into the Leaky Cauldron for the first time and everyone wanted to shake his hand, a witch named Doris Crockford k...

I started my Pre-HBP-Release Harry Potter Reread today, so Harry Potter-related posts are going to be much more frequent between now and the...

Today, I think Uric the Oddball will be the Half-Blood Prince :)

This book is a description of the events leading up to Sept. 11, by the former White House Counterterrorism Director. It's quite interes...

My biggest pet peeve about Harry Potter fandom theories is that it has practically become fanon that a) Metamorphmagi cannot morph into some...

This is the featured white at Vintages this month, and it's quite good. It's very bright and a bit minerally - reminds me of lemon-...

I got tired of the big giant space and changed my template. Let me know what you think of the font size, please. It looks a bit to big to ...

Just when Charles and Pauline Sammut thought their six-year war with the Islington Golf Club was over, a new battle with the private course ...

For the record, this blog template is called Split Pea. I tried reinstalling the template, and it still gapped. I tried comparing my templ...

My earlier post about racial slurs got me thinking: What constitutes inclusive and neutral language is always changing, as we make a conscio...

Is it Pride everywhere today, or just in Toronto? I'm wondering because non-local entertainment media seems to be focusing on its vario...

I know very few racial slurs, and I don't know the meaning of the majority of the racial slurs that I do know. (I picked most of them up...

Why does life have to be beautiful and wonderful and a precious gift? Why can't it just be a biological fluke that we happen to be expe...

I've blogged before about how recently the word "cowardly" tends to be overused and extended to mean "something I disappr...

One of my characters has the main ambition of marrying a rich sim. How do you tell if a sim is rich? I picked a character I thought was ri...

This book didn't do anything for me, but I don't think it's the fault of the book. I think it's just because I don't li...

Some quick thoughts arising from this article. 1. I find it rather odd that "I don't want to have children" is not generally ...

On the CBC radio new this morning, an politician made a remark that seemed generally innoccuos, but I found it particularly ill-advised for ...