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Pinups of the Week: Luna Lovegood at Gallery Nucleus

The fabulous Gallery Nucleus has a Harry Potter show up right now. I was struck by how many of the artists chose my favorite witch, Luna Lovegood, as a topic. A bunch of these pieces of art are still available, so go check it out!

Luna By Moonlight, Jayne Steiger

This is literally my favorite scene from all of the Harry Potter movies. Artist Jayne Steigerthis artwork

Luna, by So Youn Lee

Nice trippy piece. Artist So Youn Leethis artwork

A Lovely Luna, by Tran Nguyen

I really like this portrait of Luna. It’s like she’s a ’70s poster goddess. Artist Tran Nguyen – this piece

OK OK Sorry! I know this isn’t Luna Lovegood, but I had to sneak this great portrait of Bellatrix in here!

Bellatrix and Nagini, by Mindy Lee

She’s totally got that fabulous Cruella De Vil thing going on. Artist Mindy Lee – this piece

Wow you’ve got to check out Mindy Lee’s website. I’m sorry that I’ve been less than regular with the Friday morning weird menace pulps lately, but NEXT WEEK I’ll have a great one to get us back on track, I promise! I just needed to get some Luna on. It’s not like I’ve run out trashy pulp covers. Quite the contrary, in fact.

Queen of Darkness 5: Luna Lovegood

I can hear the moaning from my attic lair already. “Luna Lovegood!?!” you ask? Well to be honest, the choice was between Luna Lovegood and Bellatrix LeStrange. Let’s talk about the finer points. Bellatrix is crazy, dangerous and loves to scream about how she killed this or that person, and that’s fine. She also cuts a great pose with her mad eyes and crazy hair.

BUT…

Animal Hat

Luna Lovegood has an Animal Hat

I know. I know. She’s about 200 years too young for me, but let’s be serious: Luna Lovegood is Really Weird. She has a name that really belongs to the deadly romance interest in a James Bond movie. She sees things that other people don’t. She doesn’t freak out at the sight of blood. She talks about weird things all the time. (Hm. She’s sounding a lot like all my exes.) To Harry Potter and the world, she is a secret sharer and an anchor in that dark place where nothing makes sense. She also has an animal hat and looks like a fairy. MMMMMMM. Yes, sometimes that marginalized strange girl who “sees things” turns out to be right in the end.

Besides, those funny glasses make me confused and excited. Hey lady, why don’t you look my way? Have you seen too much with those x-ray eyes?

Xray Eyes Luna Lovegood

Do you have anyone you would nominate for Queen of Darkness 2009? Leave a note in the comments! Be sure to provide reasons why you think so in the comment.

Book Review: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Enders Game by Orson Scott CardI’m thinking that this is one of those books which has been reviewed too much and it’s a little off my DARK charter, but it certainly is dystopian and dystopian is dark enough for me. Besides I just read it so hey! Here goes.

I had a rocky relationship with this book from the very start. For example, I started reading it a year or two ago and put it down. Childhood and memories of childhood are depressing enough without reading a book about a kid who is being groomed to destroy an alien civilization by a bunch of well-meaning but desperate adults (and incidentally that is about all I can tell you about the plot without spoiling it.)

Ender is a genius who is not exactly 100% likable and this is what a genius looks like in a cultural vacuum. You’ve got soulful kids, bullies, antagonistic siblings, friends who turn into enemies, enemies who turn into friends, and manipulative adults. I do have to say there is something about the book that makes it a real page-turner, but if you’re like me you’ll get about nine tenths of the way through this book and wonder to yourself. “Why am I reading this?” Then the ending will come and you will either think it is enough or not enough. I thought it was enough but remained annoyed.

My scoring system isn’t going to work well on this book but I don’t care!

Creepy Factor: 0 out of 5
Suspense Factor: 4 out of 5
Weird Erotic Tension Factor: 0 out of 5

Final result: Ender’s Game was not good enough to make my “must read” list, and I doubt I will pick up any more books by the same author. At the same time, this book won both the Hugo and a Nebula awards the year it was released, so if you like Science Fiction, you’ll probably dig it.

Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card – TOR Books – 1977

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H.P. Lovecraft




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