WONDERKILLER
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It's OK if you're grown and you love Harry Potter. It's still funny to me, but it's cool.
RUG RAT ALERT: Borders Books is hosting a midnight release of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Princee” July 16. If the excitement over Pottermania won't keep your rug rat alert enough to make it to Borders at midnight maybe your kid doesn't like Harry. Maybe it's just your old ass, dragging him off in his footie pajamas because you can wait to rip into that thing like Anna Nicole Smith on a Christmas ham. Like Tom Cruise on a nosy reporter.
Just all rabid. Pages hanging out your mouth. You shaking your head side to side like a mad animal.
For those who don't know this is the sixth* book in the Potter series. They've all been runaway bestsellers. There will be magic at the 4980 Stockdale Highway store along with the selling of those books. The fun begins at 9 p.m., July 15, where you ... I mean, your kid ... will be able to make dragon masks, do some Bertie-Bott flavor guessing, make dream catchers, do some Harry Potter trivia and some magic potion formulation. And of course, there will be lots of Potter themed snacks to try and buy.
Face painting. Wizard hats. You, I mean your kid, will have SUCH a good time.
RAT PACK NEEDS NEW MEMBERS: The Royal Association of Thespians are looking for new, politically incorrect members for their offensive comedy troupe. They recently put on an offensive comedy musical. And are best known as our own personal, local branch of pranksters. Auditions will go down Saturday, July 16 at The Empty Space (706 Oak St.) from noon to 3 p.m. For more info, call 301-2464. Keep in mind that RAT is "an equal opportunity offender!"
BAKERSFIELD BROS: KNZR's Talk Radio Idol winners, the Bakersfield Bros., will have their first broadcast ever tomorrow on 1560 AM after Dodger baseball, around 2 p.m. They got the job after competing in a talk radio host contest hostd by KNZR personality Ralph Bailey. I was a judge the day the Bako boys went up to bat and I thought they were both the funniest and took the most risks. So they'll keep management on their toes, no doubt. One half of the brothers, Greg Gordon, wrote me to let me know what's what: "Don't be shocked by our youthful Rightward points-of-view or our staunch defense of Bako in the face of encroaching coastal outlanders!" Get acquainted with the Bako Bros., (Greg and Tim) and help them defend the inland on-air. Good luck, guys.
LA LA LA: ... news courtesy of SOYP, due to scheduling conflicts, there will be no Major League Improv this weekend at the Spotlight Theater. Come back next Saturday night at 6 p.m. for some comedy action ... Check out Cedar Street, Screwtape Letters, Applying Pressure, Damien's Day Out and Imago Deus at The Gate this Saturday. Show starts at 7 p.m. and it's only $5 ... The Kookoonaunts' show at The Gate is now 7 p.m. July 16, a week eariler than previously reported ... The Syndicate Lounge's smoking room. Gotta sneek peak today and if the restaurant thing goes off right for her during the expansion that place is gonna be large. Like Mafiosos and lawyers. Just a thing of beauty ... "Closer" is up and running at the Empty Space ... And Diamond Nights bring the glam rock to the MontGo Saturday night. Will you be there? Will you wear glittery pants? ...
* Parental reader pointed out that this is the sixth book. (But swears its the kid's who the fan. The kid!)
It's OK if you're grown and you love Harry Potter. It's still funny to me, but it's cool.
RUG RAT ALERT: Borders Books is hosting a midnight release of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Princee” July 16. If the excitement over Pottermania won't keep your rug rat alert enough to make it to Borders at midnight maybe your kid doesn't like Harry. Maybe it's just your old ass, dragging him off in his footie pajamas because you can wait to rip into that thing like Anna Nicole Smith on a Christmas ham. Like Tom Cruise on a nosy reporter.
Just all rabid. Pages hanging out your mouth. You shaking your head side to side like a mad animal.
For those who don't know this is the sixth* book in the Potter series. They've all been runaway bestsellers. There will be magic at the 4980 Stockdale Highway store along with the selling of those books. The fun begins at 9 p.m., July 15, where you ... I mean, your kid ... will be able to make dragon masks, do some Bertie-Bott flavor guessing, make dream catchers, do some Harry Potter trivia and some magic potion formulation. And of course, there will be lots of Potter themed snacks to try and buy.
Face painting. Wizard hats. You, I mean your kid, will have SUCH a good time.
RAT PACK NEEDS NEW MEMBERS: The Royal Association of Thespians are looking for new, politically incorrect members for their offensive comedy troupe. They recently put on an offensive comedy musical. And are best known as our own personal, local branch of pranksters. Auditions will go down Saturday, July 16 at The Empty Space (706 Oak St.) from noon to 3 p.m. For more info, call 301-2464. Keep in mind that RAT is "an equal opportunity offender!"
BAKERSFIELD BROS: KNZR's Talk Radio Idol winners, the Bakersfield Bros., will have their first broadcast ever tomorrow on 1560 AM after Dodger baseball, around 2 p.m. They got the job after competing in a talk radio host contest hostd by KNZR personality Ralph Bailey. I was a judge the day the Bako boys went up to bat and I thought they were both the funniest and took the most risks. So they'll keep management on their toes, no doubt. One half of the brothers, Greg Gordon, wrote me to let me know what's what: "Don't be shocked by our youthful Rightward points-of-view or our staunch defense of Bako in the face of encroaching coastal outlanders!" Get acquainted with the Bako Bros., (Greg and Tim) and help them defend the inland on-air. Good luck, guys.
LA LA LA: ... news courtesy of SOYP, due to scheduling conflicts, there will be no Major League Improv this weekend at the Spotlight Theater. Come back next Saturday night at 6 p.m. for some comedy action ... Check out Cedar Street, Screwtape Letters, Applying Pressure, Damien's Day Out and Imago Deus at The Gate this Saturday. Show starts at 7 p.m. and it's only $5 ... The Kookoonaunts' show at The Gate is now 7 p.m. July 16, a week eariler than previously reported ... The Syndicate Lounge's smoking room. Gotta sneek peak today and if the restaurant thing goes off right for her during the expansion that place is gonna be large. Like Mafiosos and lawyers. Just a thing of beauty ... "Closer" is up and running at the Empty Space ... And Diamond Nights bring the glam rock to the MontGo Saturday night. Will you be there? Will you wear glittery pants? ...
* Parental reader pointed out that this is the sixth book. (But swears its the kid's who the fan. The kid!)
posted by Danielle Belton @ 3:58 PM
3 Comments:
At 5:23 PM,
Anonymous said…
Russo's Books is also holding a Harry Potter night and some o' Bakersfield's finest actors will be playing parts in it! Come out and see Doug Cheesman as Harry, Amy Hall as Hermione, Jeremiah Heitman as Ron, and many more local actors re-enact scenes from the first five books at the Marketplace on the eve of July 15th...
At 11:03 AM,
Anonymous said…
Sixth book.
HP & the
...Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone
...Chamber of Secrets
...Prisoner of Azkaban
...Goblet of Fire
...Order of the Phoenix
...Half-Blood Prince
(No, really, it's my daughter who's the fan...really.)
At 11:19 AM,
Nick Belardes said…
As a novelist you would think I was reading more Naipaul, Jones, Faulkner, and Dostoyevsky as of late. Nah, I just finished Harry Pooty book five after years of swearing I would never read a Harry Potter book (called Happy Topper in my family because of a once firm hatred for the franchise). I swear I am not going to show up to one of these events though. I swear and swear again...
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