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(This isn’t another Harry Potter post.)

Alright, so. Young MC – Bust A Move.

Your best friend Harry has a brother Larry
In five days from now he’s gonna marry
He’s hopin you can make it there if you can
‘Cause in the ceremony you’ll be the best man

If Larry is getting married, and Harry is his brother, then why is ‘you’ the best man? Seriously, if I was Harry I’d be totally pissed off that my brother chose my best friend to be his best man instead of me.

Or is it a guy thing, like, Larry is so embarassed to ask Harry to be his best man, cause it would be one of those soppy moments where they’re all “dude, I love you the MOSTEST, brahs forevah!”, so he just asked Harry’s best friend instead? Doesn’t Larry have any friends of his own?

Or is it actually Harry who’s getting married, and Larry is just thrown in there as a bit of extra information? Because, if you know a pair of brothers called Harry and Larry, then you know that’s a family with no imagination at all, and then you’ll know what kind of wedding it’ll be. So really Harry is all “yeah, my brother’s name is Larry, but by a stroke of luck I’m getting married, will you be the best man? Please remember to rehearse the pink and yellow songs with clever rhymes in them.” Unless it’s planned by the bride and her family, but then, if she’s marrying boring Larry, then who knows, she might be a stick in the mud herself.

As the later lyrics clearly state that the reception was jumpin’ though, I suppose it was a rather fun wedding after all. Good for you, Harry or Larry.

I had this thought just as I was falling asleep last night, and lo and behold, I managed to type it down on my phone (thank you, AK Notepad). It made for some interesting reading this afternoon when I opened the notepad to write my grocery list, heh…

Ok.

So.

Harry Potter. They use owls to send messages.

The internet. We use Twitter to send messages.

Now, the internet is rarely (never?) mentioned in the Potterverse, but one has to assume that it exists in the Muggle world, at least. BUT. If there was a magical www (wizard world web? wonderful wizardly web? web (of) wizardly wonders?), and they had a Twitter-like service, it would, without a doubt, be called:

HOOTER.

Get it? Because birds tweet, and owls hoot! Oh gosh, late night brain, you did it again.

So as I was pouring myself some ice cold Cola Zero to settle down and watch Glee, I was mindblogging a post about my favourite Star Wars quotes, and it made me want to watch Star Wars oh so badly, but as it turns out I DON’T OWN THE DVDS. NOT ONE OF THEM.

WHAT!

And it’s all because I’ve been waiting for YEARS now for the full sextology (it is too a word, I googled it) to be released in one set of epic awesomeness, but NOTHING HAS HAPPENED. I swear I saw one like it in a bookstore in NYC but then I didn’t get it because I figured that hey, if this bookstore has it, then so will all stores soon. Now I’m thinking it might have been a mirage.

Pedestrian accessibility: One does not simply walk into Mordor.

I was talking to my brother on MSN (yes, I know, we live in the same house, but it’s not like I can be bothered to walk downstairs just to tell him pointless stuff like this) about how installing The Sims 2 and all its expansion packs takes for-frakking-ever.

Me: The Sims 2 install ftl.

But then I got to thinking, about ftl. As you may or may not know, it’s a “common” abbreviation of “for the lose”, as opposed to “for the win”. Duh. BUT. Being so into Battlestar Galactica, I can’t help but think about FTL drives – as in “faster than light drives”. And imagine! If the installation of The Sims 2 ++ would really BE FTL. Then it wouldn’t just be ftl, it would also be ftw, as in “The Sims 2 FTL FTW!”

Yes? YES? I KNOW!

This post brought to you by Ibuprofen and Coke Zero. Be responsible, go to bed if you feel sick.

I just took a quiz about Harry Potter, and got 15/15 correct. The quizmaker named me an expert and “sorted” me into Gryffindor, whereas you’re sorted into Ravenclaw if you get between 9-12 points.

I am so offended right now.

Yes, I’ve mentioned Supernatural before, but it deserves another mention because it is made of all things awesome. Add to that a couple of hot guys, and BAM! IT’S A HIT. With me, at least. Like Big Bang Theory, it also has its fair share of references to popular culture. Win!

I’ve always been a fan of the supernatural, even though it scares me crazy. I have Supernatural-themed nightmares. Like the other night, I dreamed that Tor was sort of Dean Winchester, and there was a creepy reflection in the mirror and then THE OWLS SENT US DEATH THREATS.

Yeah… Minor derailment there, sorry. It’s true though, I did dream that. The Dean part wasn’t so nightmare-ish. DISCLAIMER: I love my husband and don’t really want him to be Dean.

The first SPN episode I watched was Bloody Mary, one of the season 1 episodes. It was on TV here, and I figured why not, and then I didn’t sleep much the following night. Then I kept forgetting to watch it because it was on at stupid o’clock. But then Bre came to visit and she brought her season 1 DVDs, and we spent much of our time bonding over demons and Winchesters. It was awesome. Who needs a bachelorette party when there’s Supernatural?

Apparently Jared and Jensen aren’t on Twitter. Apparently Sam and Dean are, though. How could Sam NOT be on Twitter? I’m just sayin’. The boy’s a geek. He could almost do a guest part on Big Bang Theory (although I’m really no fan of crossovers. Too much strangeness and awkward and oh hi I’m Harry Potter and I just walked through a portal to Middle Earth. Better not.).

“It’s like we got a contract on us. You think it’s ’cause we’re so awesome? I think it’s ’cause it’s we’re so awesome.” -Dean Winchester

In the words of GIR: I love this show.

And what’s not to love? It has geeky boys (who are kinda cute too), video games, geeky humour and tons of references to popular culture. And that last one, that’s one of the things I love the most. Popcultrefs. Yes, that’s a word. Yes, I might have made it up right now. Also, I googled it right now and the top hit was the Wikipedia entry on popular culture.

I stumbled across BBT on Norwegian TV one day, and immediately recognised it as an awesome show that had to be watched. So I ordered the first season on DVD, and watched. And laughed. Now let me explain something about me and laughing: The later years it hasn’t happened too often. It’s not that I’m not generally having a good time, I just don’t laugh like I used to. BBT makes me laugh like I used to.

And I love it for that.

I may also have a small fictional character crush on Leonard.

If you’re already familiar with the show, then you might also want to follow the guys on Twitter! You can find Sheldon, Raj, Leonard and Howard there, as well as Kunal Nayyar who plays Raj. Fun times!

“I’m polymerized tree sap and you’re an inorganic adhesive, so whatever verbal projectile you launch in my direction is reflected off of me, returns to its original projectory and adheres to you.” -Sheldon Cooper, PhD.