Last night in my Fairy Tales class, we talked about Witches Abroad. Nearly everyone kept going on about how much they loved it! I wouldn't be surprised if we got a handful of converts out of the mix. During break, Ko and I got several people asking us which books we recommended. WIN! And when I get some of this mythical free time, I want to reread some of the witches books, which on the most part I haven't read since high school. Rereading Witches Abroad this week, I realized that I clearly didn't appreciate them as much as I should have. So much love!

When we were discussing ways the Witches derailed the stories, Veronica got volunteers read a few lines of dialogue. Naturally, I jumped at the chance. It's ridiculously fun to do voices for Discworld, and boo to my classmates for not taking advantage of the opportunity to really have fun with the lines they were given! They read the lines like they would read a recipe out loud. Shame, classmates, shame!

In other fannish news, dude, House was great this week! Just got around to watching it this morning. And speaking of cool House stuff, this fanvid is awesome. Link ganked from Violet! Someone took clips from Dead Poets Society and House, and gave us the story of "If Neil had just given into his dad instead of shooting himself he would have grown up to be Wilson." It's GREAT, and you should all watch it!

Tealin has posted boards for her animated sequence of a scene from The Hostile Hospital of The Series of Unfortunate Events. That girl makes my heart dance.

More yay: Japanese "I'm a Mac" Commercials. Though Japanese!PC is nowhere near as cute as John Hodgman. :D

And speaking of amusing Japanese things, my mind is blown by this video of a pool filled with non-Newtonian fluid, and again by this more scientific take. Sweeeeet. I want a pool of cornstarch!

And I leave you with an AICN reviewer's take on subversive themes in Ant Bully and Happy Feet. Commentary aside, I was pleased to read his praise of the insect designs in Ant Bully. One of my friends from my summer internship was a lead character modeler for the film, modeling the wasps, the frog, the ant Fugax (the one with the split chin), a member of the high council, the spider from the teaser, and the exterminator, to name a few. He's now working for Laika, which is high on my list of "Studios I would sell a kidney to work at." WOO CHRIS!