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Seattle/Olympia Movement to Impeach Bush:

The Citizens Movement to Impeach Bush/Cheney is sponsoring "Constitution in Crisis: A Town Hall Meeting" on Feb. 20 at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts, 512 Washington St. S.E. in Olympia. The event begins at 7 p.m. and is free to the public. For more information, call George Hartwell at 360-459-1079, or e-mail him at impeachbush@riseup.net.

Fewer can afford to buy a house in King County. No, really? It's probably why people are being suckered into paying housing prices for condos. All the pain of living in an apartment with the responsibilities and cost of owning a house.

A typical household would have had to bring in 46 percent more income in 2005 to afford a median house, a huge leap from 2004, according to an annual report released Wednesday.

And as promised to damashita regarding the Harry Potter world, Order of the Phoenix will be in Theatres July 13th*, and the seventh and final book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is due on shelves July 21st in a variety of forms.

*Also see ABC Special Behind the Scenes, Harry's First Kiss, and the adorable actress they found to play Luna Lovegood. And yes, I think many of us are looking forward to seeing Helena Bonham Carter play Bellatrix. I'm just not sure if their casting choice for Umbridge is going to live up to the toadite of my imagination. *shivers*

EDIT: Nakey pics of Daniel Radcliffe via damashita (see below)

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs are now featuring scents based on Neil Gaiman's books According to his blog, they're working on Neverwhere and Stardust as well. ^__^

Wil Wheaton weighs in about the Boston madness: "You know, if the goal of terrorists and the whole point of terrorism is to scare the shit out of us so badly that we leap ten feet in the air whenever someone says 'boo,' then the terrorists are clearly kicking our national asses."

via sweetprince, I give you a waste of time: ( Book Meme )

Speaking of books, Jacqueline Carey has a fifth book coming out in the Kushiel series slated for June. It's entitled, Kushiel's Justice, and forgive me for speculating based on the cover alone, but might that be a daughter of our heroine and her consort? *speculates in vivid fanfic fantasy*