In Canada and Britain the Harry Potter movie is called Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In the U.S. it's called Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Why is this???
posted by Roz Doctorow at 11/26/2001 05:41:41 AM
I just discovered American poet David McGimpsey who now lives and works in Montreal. He's written several volumes of poetry. I've been reading Hamburger Valley, California. One of my favourite poems in this volume is "Millenial Predictions". It goes like this:
The ghost of Bill Clinton will haunt the White House
and impregnate the ghost of Barbara Bush.
Chef Boyardee's Beefaroni will contain a new, fad ingredient: live sparrows.
Billy Ray Cyrus will help change medical history
with his so-called "Achy Breaky Cure for Lupus."
Jesus will return to earth,
but only to guest star as a cranky radiologist on ER.
Dogs and cats will settle their ancient animosity,
then they will breed and create a new superspecies
that will eventually enslave humans as their personal groomers.
Humans, in turn, will be able to lick themselves.
In order to combat demographic shifts,
10-year-olds will be allowed to vote and hold office:
this will lead to the controversial "Grampa Smells Funny" initiative.
The "Utah Jazz" will change their name to the "Utah Progressive Jazz"
posted by Roz Doctorow at 11/26/2001 05:38:50 AM
A bit of nostalgia. I saw Bob Dylan in concert last week and was instantly taken back 30 some years. Except that he changed some of the tunes of my old favourites so that it took a while to figure out if he was singing a familiar song or something brand new. The Air Canada Centre in Toronto was certainly not an ideal venue for the show, but the pungent smell of grass and the kids dancing in the aisles almost made me forget that I wasn't sitting outside at a folk festival many years ago. The Globe and Mail review summed the concert up this way, "and by the ime he closed out the main body of his set, the whole room seemed to be in ecstasy (in it, not on it).
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posted by Roz Doctorow at 11/15/2001 02:06:59 PM