Got an email from Randy Hoyt - Harry Potter has won this year’s Mythopoeic Society Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature. It was announced this past weekend at MythCon 39.
A well-deserved win for Potter.
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Harry Potter Wins Mythopoeic Award
August 18th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Harry Potter awards, Mythopoeic Society Awards from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Book Reviews and Giveaway
August 15th, 2008 — , Book giveaway, Gryffindor Common Room, children's books from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
From time to time, I’m sent books by WaterBook Press to review and give away. This upcoming week is a Children’s Extravaganza Tour, and I have three children’s books I’ll be reviewing here on the site and then giving away. Hence, the August giveaway is three children’s books:
God Gave Us Heaven
God Loves Me More Than [...]
Real Invisibility Cloak - Why am I not Excited?
August 13th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Harry Potter invisibility cloak, real invisibility cloak, science invisibility cloak from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
This story has been making the rounds for years, and apparently scientists are getting ever closer to making a magical object a reality. Despite the fact that I argue in chapter one of my book that magic and science need not be antithetical, something about the possibility of a real invisibility cloak leaves me [...]
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Ethics, Law, and Billy Budd
August 9th, 2008 — , Beyond the Potterverse, Billy Budd, Gryffindor Common Room, Law and Literature Movement from Dave the Longwinded @ The Hog's Head
by Dave
This is a little outside our interests here at The Hog’s Head, but if you haven’t listened to The Philosopher’s Zone (produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), it is certainly an interesting program. You can download episodes from the link in the program’s title above, or you can subscribe to it as a [...]
Ethics, Law, and Billy Budd
August 9th, 2008 — , Beyond the Potterverse, Billy Budd, Gryffindor Common Room, Law and Literature Movement from Dave the Longwinded @ The Hog's Head
by Dave
This is a little outside our interests here at The Hog’s Head, but if you haven’t listened to The Philosopher’s Zone (produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), it is certainly an interesting program. You can download episodes from the link in the program’s title above, or you can subscribe to it as a [...]
Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Only $15 at Amazon.com!
August 7th, 2008 — , Amazon.com deals, Gryffindor Common Room, Samuel Taylor Coleridge from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Update: It’s back to the original price. Did anyone order before the $900+ price jump?
John Granger sent me an email last night with a follow-up today that Amazon.com has an unbelievable deal on The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (7 Volumes) - $15 for what is normally $965. Last night, they still had both [...]
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Around the Common Room
August 6th, 2008 — , Dr. Horrible, Goonies, Goonies II, Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
By Matthew
Here’s a mixed bag of stuff.
Harry Potter as a Japanese TV show.
Japanese Harry Potter
Cool balloon - even the dark side needs to recreate!
Goonies II anyone?
And if you haven’t seen it already, you should watch Joss Whedon’s Dr Horrible.
Act 1
Act 2
Act 3
PubCast #57 Temporarily Unavailable
August 6th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
PubCast #57 will be temporarily unavailable. It will be back up again tonight.
Beedle the Bard UK Cover Art
August 2nd, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Tales of Beedle the Bard from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
I really like the cover art for the UK edition of The Tales of Beedle the Bard.
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August 1st, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Half-Blood Prince trailer, Harry Potter's Birthday, Tales of Beedle the Bard, Three Broomsticks from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
It’s been an exciting Harry Potter week. Here are this week’s highlights, as well as a few things not yet reported here at the pub:
Half-Blood Prince Trailer released - We’ve been having a great discussion here, and HP Progs podcasted on it
J.K. Rowling’s and Harry Potter’s birthday (Neville’s, too, the day before!) Pat wishes them [...]
Half-Blood Prince Trailer Direct Downloads
July 30th, 2008 — , Download Half Blood Prince Trailer, Gryffindor Common Room, Half-Blood Prince trailer from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Want to download the Half-Blood Prince Teaser Trailer? HPANA has the links!
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Death Eater Attack & a Nifty New Feature
July 23rd, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
Earlier, there was a Death Eater attack on this blog, and it was down for some time. Sorry ’bout that! We’re back up and running, and I’ve added a new feature which should make following conversations a bit easier for some. You’ve always been able to subscribe to all comments if you’d like, by putting [...]
Around the Common Room
July 23rd, 2008 — , Dark Knight, Gryffindor Common Room, Jeffrey Overstreet, Jim Dale, John Granger, Portus 2008, myth from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
My review of Portus 2008
John Granger on Potter and medieval studies
Dark Knight fans: If you haven’t read Dave’s post on Joker and Voldemort yet, you should
Dark Knight fans (again): Here are two opposite perspectives on the film - Brant Hansen thinks it’s evidence of the utter boredom of our culture; Jeffrey Overstreet thinks it’s [...]
The Hound of the Baskervilles on The Classic Tales
July 19th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
By Matthew
Please do yourself a very big service and download B.J. Harrison’s reading of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles while it is still available.
It is in six parts and I have been waiting eagerly each week for the next episode. I love to listen to it while having a daily constitutional. [...]
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Welcome, Portus People
July 18th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
I want to extend a special welcome to all those who have found The Hog’s Head as a result of attending Portus 2008! We’re glad to have you here. Aberforth’s beer is on the house, so we hope you’ll stick around and join the discussion. Here’s a bullet-point introduction to The Hog’s Head:
Blogengamot: The [...]
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July 14th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Portus 2008, pictures from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
My camera’s zoom doesn’t work, so I wasn’t able to get many good pictures. I’ll update this post as I find good ones from various Harry Potter fansites.
Me and Penny on the Podcasting Panel
Half of the Panel and the other half
Jim Dale presentation
Jim Dale at Private Press Meeting (which I attended)
Portus 2008, Day 3: End of Day Report
July 12th, 2008 — , Edmund Kern, Gryffindor Common Room, Portus 2008 from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
This will actually be the last Portus update, since I’m flying out too early tomorrow to make it to any of the closing events. I’ll be writing more on Portus, podcasting, and doing an essay or two at Suite101. For now, just a few quick updates.
Though I’m convinced of the Christian reading of “King’s Cross,” [...]
Portus 2008, Day 3: Midday Report
July 12th, 2008 — , Edmund Kern, Gryffindor Common Room, H.P. Lovecraft, Jim Dale, King's Cross, Portus 2008 from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
This morning, I got up early enough to make it to the hotel for a small press gathering with Jim Dale. In the next week or so, I’ll do a podcast with audio clips and reflections on that. His talk was excellent; he’s a very engaging speaker.
My second talk went well, I think. ”Hogwarts, A [...]
Portus 2008, Day 2
July 11th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Portus 2008 from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Today was an excellent day at Portus 2008! I attended two roundtable discussions led by Penny of HP Progs, and they were both stellar. Well done, Penny! David Gras of Harry Potter Fan Zone led a discussion on the way both Lewis and Rowling include pagan elements in their stories in a way that “bridges [...]
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July 10th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Portus 20, Portus 2008 from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Just the opening ceremonies tonight. I basically wandered around aimlessly until I ran into Greg and Penny, and then David and his wife (from HP Fan Zone), Karen Kebarle (whom I met at Convention Alley), and Dave and Leanne Bruno. It was an enjoyable night catching up with these friends.
I’m really tired. I slept from [...]
Heading to Dallas!
July 9th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Portus 2008 from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
I’m scrambling to get everything packed and ready before waking up at 3am to drive to a friend’s house in Buffalo, who will drive me to the airport, from whence I will fly to Dallas for Portus 2008 (you can still register for the whole conference or day passes!). Elvendorks from all around will gather [...]
A George MacDonald Summer
July 6th, 2008 — , George MacDonald, Gryffindor Common Room, summer reading list from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
I had a summer reading list planned, but I have the tendency to dabble a little bit here and a little bit there, and I think this summer I’m going to remedy that by burying myself in George MacDonald. So my reading list is going to be entirely comprised of books and audiobooks by [...]
Free Audiobooks: Giveaway Details
July 2nd, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Margaret Atwood, free audiobook, giveaway, karen armstrong, mythology from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
As I announced yesterday, The Hog’s Head is giving away three free audiobooks in the form of Brilliance Audio’s “The Myths Collection.”
Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth: What are myths? How have they evolved? And why do we still so desperately need them? Heralding a major series of retellings of international myths by authors [...]
Myth-Mania
July 1st, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Jeannette Winterston, Margaret Atwood, free giveaway, karen armstrong, mythology, mythopoeic society from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
There are three different matters of mythology I’ve been meaning to write about, and as long as there’s three, I’ll put ‘em all in this myth-mania post.
Myth Matter #1: Journey to the Sea has been launched!
Randy Hoyt, a Hog’s Head patron, whose voice you heard on the last PubCast, has launched an online journal [...]
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June 30th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
Harry Potter in the Classroom
Malfoy Actor Cites “Alchemy of Harry Potter”
Why has Rowling referred to the encyclopedia as “The Scottish Book”?
Young Voldemort
Rowling Wins Another Award
The Hog’s Head in Southern CA?
June 28th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
If any Hog’s Head patrons in Southern CA are interested in having me speak on Harry Potter at a local library, bookstore, coffee shop, or any other venue, I will to be there with my two favorite girls in the world for a week and a half - July 17-27 (23-24 are out - two days [...]
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June 27th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Some random, end of the week humor:
For anyone wishing to visit Matthew, Black Angus, or Michael, here are directions between Sydney and LA. Pay close attention to #6.
Interview with Aziza Aba Butain
June 25th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Harry Potter conferences, Portus 2008 from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
I’m working on PubCast #53, and it should be posted tomorrow.
In the meantime, I conducted an email interview with the Chair of Public Relations for Portus 2008, Aziza Aba Butain. I had to cut part of the interview from the Suite101.com article, so I’ve included that part below. It’s some interesting insight into what goes [...]
Around the Common Room
June 23rd, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
New article at Suite101.com: a brief summary of the whole nutty concept of Harry Potter Conferences. (I gotta keep posting occasional Potter stuff there…my readership has dropped 37% since I last wrote a Potter article)
One last push on the Facebook thing: We’ve currently got 34 members. We need just five more to join The Hog’s [...]
Convention Alley Wrap-Up
June 22nd, 2008 — , Convention Alley, Gryffindor Common Room, Harry Potter conferences, John Granger from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Convention Alley was a blast. Welcome to new Hog’s Head readers who have now found the blog through our meeting at Convention Alley. Glad to have you here, and I hope you’ll join the discussion! If you’re a Facebook or Twitter user, we have a Twitter Page and a Facebook Blog Networks page you can [...]
Convention Alley, Day 2
June 21st, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Reminder to Facebook Users: If you haven’t joined The Hog’s Head blog network yet, please do so! Another 12 readers, and we’ll have broken into the Top 50! To those who have joined - thank you, and thanks for the good ratings!
Another good day at Convention Alley. Once again, I missed the morning talks - I [...]
Convention Alley, Day 1
June 20th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
I pulled onto the University of Ottawa campus today, and just happened to pull in behind a thoroughly bewildered John Granger, who had spent the last hour trying to get from the wrong campus to the right one. He made up for this blunder, however, by giving an excellent keynote presentation on “The Five [...]
Headin’ North
June 19th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
I would travel all my life
If loneliness was not the price
But headin’ north across that line
Is the only time I’m flyin’
~ Gordon Lightfoot
Very early tomorrow morning, I’ll start the trip up across the good ol’ U.S./Canada border and on to Ottawa. Trips up to Canada have been a very regular part of my life, but [...]
The Hog’s Head on Facebook: A “Top 50? Blog?
June 18th, 2008 — , Blog Business, Facebook, Gryffindor Common Room from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
If you have a Facebook account, note that there’s a new application for blogs which catalogues blogs and rates them by user ratings and readers. Presently, we’d need to get over 35 “readers” on Facebook to get us into the Top 50 (which would be really cool).
So, please visit the Facebook Hog’s Head blog page, [...]
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“Minders of Make-Believe”
June 16th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
I don’t have time to comment on this right now (though I’d really like to), so I’ll just leave it for the pub to discuss around Aberforth’s morning pot of coffee. It’s a book review by Laura Miller for the NYT which considers the development of children’s lit marketing.
Around the Common Room
June 14th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
James McAvoy is denying the rumors that he’s Bilbo
The auction price for the Harry Potter prequel works out to $61 a word.
HP Progs has a typed copy of the prequel, in case you, like everyone else in the world, are having difficulty reading Rowling’s handwriting.
Portus News: Leslie Combemale, owner of ArtInsights Animation and Film Art [...]
Wilberforce, Bathsheba, Elvendork: The Harry Potter Prequel
June 11th, 2008 — , Bathsheba, Elvendork, Gryffindor Common Room, Harry Potter Prequel, J.K. Rowling Harvard Speech, William Wilberforce from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
Bathsheba? Anyone have a brilliant idea about why she chose that name? And here’s a prediction: the internet is about to be flooded with people wanting “Elvendork” as their new screen name. Which new patron of the pub will claim the name here first?
John Granger asks about Elvendork, and at Suite101, I write at [...]
Internet Businesses Websites Businesses for Sale Opportunities
Sean John Men Discount Fragrances Store
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Heavens to Murgatroid or Aslan vs. Snagglepuss
June 11th, 2008 — , Aslan, Gryffindor Common Room, Narnia, cartoons, cowardly lion from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
By Matthew
Red Rocker made the following comment on another post:
Returning to Matthew’s point, the depiction of Aslan - and thereby of Christianity - as defanged, lame and uninspiring: I blame not the movie makers but how Lewis positioned his Christ figure. Making him a lion reduces the possibility of being able to relate to him [...]
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Fred and George: Subversive Students
June 8th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Surprise! My one article on Harry Potter at Suite101.com got more hits than any of the others by far. Should have seen that coming. So in the interest of building a readership there, I wrote another:
The Brilliant Weasley Drop-outs: J.K. Rowling’s Trickster Twins as Models of Intelligence that Counts
As usual, I welcome all questions, comments, and [...]
Prequel Speculations
June 8th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
It hadn’t even struck me that we’re in something of an interlibrum, a waiting phase between Deathly Hallows and the index-card prequel to the Harry Potter series. ZoeRose gives her speculation, and I don’t think you could find a better piece of speculating than that.
Other ideas?
More on Rowling at Harvard
June 6th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, J.K. Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
I’ve been hired to do freelance writing for Suite101.com. This is exciting for me, as it means I’m taking just another small step towards writing as much as possible. I’ll mostly be keeping my Harry Potter commentary here, but every once in a while, I’ll post something on Potter there instead of here, and I’ll [...]
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June 6th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Hogwarts, education and politics, literacy from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
This is a project I did for a graduate class. It includes a brief theoretical framework, some brief reflections on how Harry Potter relates to that theory, and then, for the sake of any educators who read this site, I’ve attached, as a downloadable document, this content plus eight lesson plans I constructed. I hope it’s [...]
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Reminder: Enter Giveaway Contest!
June 3rd, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
UPDATE: Because of an unforeseen schedule conflict, I can’t record PubCast #52 tomorrow. I’ll record Thursday, which means the deadline for entering the Giveaway contest is now 7AM EST Thursday, June 5.
Just a reminder to enter the giveaway contest for the BBC radio dramatization of The Lord of the Rings. Please note: Signing up for Twitter [...]
C.S. Lewis describes Voldemort’s hell, Caspian movie problem and why Rowling spoils it for everyone.
June 3rd, 2008 — , Aslan, Gryffindor Common Room, Harry Potter, Rowling, caspian, hell, lewis, pain from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
By Matthew
I’ve been reading through Lewis’ The Problem of Pain and the bells started to ring when reading the chapter on Hell.
Our Lord speaks of Hell under three symbols: first, that of punishment; second, that of destruction; and thirdly, that of privation, exclusion, or banishment into “the darkness outside”…
…Destruction, we should naturally assume, means the [...]
Free Audiobook: The Pilgrim’s Progress
June 2nd, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, allegory from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
We’ve had some discussion here about “allegory” as it relates to Narnia and Harry Potter. I’m of the opinion that neither should be defined as “allegory,” though Lewis comes closer than Rowling in some places. If you want to hear an example of a straight-up allegory, The Pilgrim’s Progress is the classic example, and it’s [...]
Giveaway - BBC Radio Collection: The Lord of the Rings
June 1st, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
We’re going to try to do giveaways here at the Hog’s Head at least once a month. This one’s really exciting: a dramatized BBC production of The Lord of the Rings. Matthew wrote about this a couple weeks ago. Here’s a wikipedia entry for the production, and here’s a link with a lot of reviews.
How [...]
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Express Yourself at The Hog’s Head
May 30th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Dumbledore said that the Hog’s Head attracts more interesting clientele than the Three Broomsticks, and Hagrid famously said, “You get a lot of funny folk in the Hog’s Head.” Now you can prove it. The Hog’s Head has been invaded by monsters and images. If you don’t have your own image, you’ll have a monster [...]
James McAvoy as Bilbo?
May 29th, 2008 — , Bilbo Baggins, Gryffindor Common Room, The Hobbit from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
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That appears to be the strongest rumor:
James McAvoy is set to play Bilbo Baggins in ‘The Hobbit’.
Film bosses are rumoured to be close to signing McAvoy - who played the faun Mr. Tumnus in ‘The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe’ - to play the fantasy hero in the big [...]
HP “Prequel”: What Do You Think?
May 29th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Harry News and Commentary, Harry Potter Prequel, JK Rowling from Dave the Longwinded @ The Hog's Head
by Dave
Check out this news article from the Chicago Sun-Times. For a charity event, several major UK authors were asked to write something on a card to be auctioned to raise money to help those with dyslexia:
Rowling used both sides of her card to hand-write a prequel to her seven-book Harry Potter saga.
Rowling’s “prequel” [...]
New Poll: What magic artifact was the coolest?
May 29th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Invisibility Cloak, Magic, Mirror of Erised, ford anglia, item, marauder's map, pensive, poll, put-outer, time turner from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
By Matthew
There’s plenty of items in the Harry Potter stories that I’d love to get my hands on.
Oh, what fun could be had.
Please vote and comment on what you selected.
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