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This has to be the biggest coup in the history of this blog. Yes, ladies and gentlemen it is true: this evening the absolute very last page of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was sent to The Knight Shift. This is it! This is how the entire saga ends for good. This is the most absolute toppest-top secret that J.K. Rowling has been sitting on for over ten years now.

If you DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILED, you are advised to TURN BACK NOW!

I mean it!

MASSIVE HARRY POTTER SPOILERS AHEAD

You sure you want to know?

Okay, let it be on your own head. Don’t say that I didn’t warn you.

Here it is, the final page from the very last chapter of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:

“Is there anything you would like from the menu?” Rosmerta asked.

“Three bottles of butterbear and

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A few months ago it was “Chris as a South Park character”. Now today, after all of these years of dreaming and courtesy of The Simpsons Movie website, I am finally a character from The Simpsons! Looks pretty much like me, right down to that weird bit of hair on the right-hand side of my forehead that does its own thing without going one way or the other on the part (it’s not so pronounced just after a haircut but after a few weeks you really see it). My Simpsons avatar is also wearing denim jeans (my usual style) and dark brown shoes which are meant to be my hiking boots. Lisa thinks that brown and green are my best colors, so I colored “my” shirt brown. And since I’m somewhat of a “fight the status quo” sort, I put the upraised fist/sign of defiance on my ...

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A short while after finishing my review of Kingdom Come (thank heaven that’s the last we’ll ever see of Left Behind… hopefully) I found out about another book that was coming out around the same time. This one also dealt with Pre-Tribulation Rapture theology, but with a twist: it’s story was about what happens when Christians obsess about the Rapture to the point of ignoring the work that God has provided to occupy ourselves with until He does come. That alone would have piqued my interest. That the book’s page on Amazon described it as a “quirky apocalyptic gangster novel” only fueled my desire to know more. And that this was a Christian satire novel that was – gasp! – said to be uproariously funny settled it in my mind: I absolutely had to read Tribulation House by Chris Well.

It wasn’t until two days ago that I found a ...

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Nothing I say can prepare you for how cool this is:

This was done for some video contest sponsored by Nintendo. I think it’s one of the most brilliant videos ever put on YouTube. Oh yeah, and “Little Mac” has his own Myspace page, too!

If only Mike Tyson had behaved himself and not got his name stripped-off the Punch-Out game…

EDIT 6/21/2007 2:00 a.m. EST: The contest was something called Nintendo Short Cuts Showcase… and Punch-Out!! didn’t win anything! But it’s sure a huge hit on YouTube.

Amazing that a four-and-a-half minute short film about a Nintendo game produced by a gang of good friends would be something that’s much more fun to watch than the full-length Super Mario Bros. movie done by a major studio....

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If you’re a Star Wars geek, chances are you caught last night’s Robot Chicken Star Wars special on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. I tuned in. Now, up ’til last night I had already seen this lil’ Star Wars clip from the Robot Chicken show…

But last night was the first time, ever, that I tuned in specifically for Robot Chicken on TV. So I watched the Star Wars special (which was hilarious!) and then, decided that I see what “regular” Robot Chicken is like.

I haven’t laughed this hard at television in… I don’t know how long!

And I can’t believe that I haven’t watched Robot Chicken until now!

For a long time, I’ve thought that television had become stale, without anything “new” adding vibrancy and vitality to the medium. And then Lost comes along, and re-defines dramatic storytelling. And now here is Robot Chicken, which I think ...

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Remember the classic episode “A Piece of the Action” from the original Star Trek TV show? That was the one where Kirk and Spock beam down to the alien planet that had its entire culture based on 1920s Chicago mob wars. What happened was another Federation ship had come years earlier and accidentally left a book about the Chicago mobs behind and the aliens on this planet, being curious and innovative, re-engineered their world around what they learned from that book. It was a great episode with a lot of humor (and not entirely unplausible when you think about it).

Anyway, someone has taken the “A Piece of the Action” episode and turned it into a parody of The Sopranos intro! It’s also got a “Scientology” spoof commercial at the end. I think it’s one of the most hilarious things that I’ve ever seen on YouTube! Check out “The Spockranos”…...

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With apologies to Jimmy Webb and the late Richard Harris, but I just couldn’t resist writing this one. Inspired by events of the past few days…

“MacArthur Park 2007”

Originally written by Jimmy Webb and performed by Richard Harris

New words by Christopher Knight

Border is wide open for them girl
They’re starting to get bold
As they scream their Spanish chants
Now they incite a riot as they press
The government to bow down
To La Raza’s mad demands

MacArthur Park is burning in the dark
All those rubber bullets flying ’round
Gonzo’s hot to find someone to blame
This country just can’t take it
Illegals are going to break it
And we’ll never have America again
Oh noooooooo!

I can see unlawful immigrants
Fighting with the cops
Of Los Angeles P-D
Better put a stop to this right now or
They’ll be spreading from sea to shining sea

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When I was growing up, Newhart was one of the few television shows that I really liked to watch. Guess it was all those weird characters living together in that tiny Vermont town. One of the quirkiet was Tom Poston’s George Utley. I think it was in his very first appearance on the show that he gave Bob Newhart’s character Dick Loudon his business card and all it says on it is “GEORGE UTLEY”, no phone or address: people have to shout for him if they wanted him. The look on Dick’s face after that is what set the tone for all the years of the show that followed.

Well, news is coming out tonight that Tom Poston passed away Monday night at the age of 85. In addition to a life of great acting and comedy roles, he was also a pilot during World War II who flew ...

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