From the Hogwarts Light Verse Society

I'm still having a great time on MyLeaky. One of the groups I've started is the Hogwarts Light Verse Society (those Star Wars poems really got me going). Today is Leaky News Mistress Sue Upton's birthday, so in her honor, I wrote ...

A CLERIHEW

Sue Upton
Started eruptin’
When she heard Jason Isaacs state
That he thinks Hufflepuffs are great

A HAIKU

"Happy birthday, Sue!"
Frak opens up a bottle
Pellegrino sound

A LIMERICK

All Squee-ers love when Ms. Sue
Tells Pottercast listeners what’s new
If the news is real neato
John drops his burrito
And offers his own point of view

A DOUBLE DACTYL

Squeedly deedly
Sue Upton, Hufflepuff
Looked at Melissa’s book
Flying off shelves

“Maybe I’ll write a new
Fictobiography --
Hufflepuff, Helga: Our
Bodies, Our Elves”

A few recent projects

So I'm embarking on some shameless promotion for this play. In fact, if you're reading this, it's probably because you encountered some of those.

Here's what they are:

• I've been posting a lot on MyLeaky, the social networking site from The Leaky Cauldron. I'm known at Dean O. there. If you haven't joined yet, please do, and friend me. And please join the group I created, Housing Other Quartets.
  
• I have a piece on the latest episode of Inside the Magic, where I'm known as That Anonymous Guy. In it, I play a clip from The Black Hole and riff on it, MST3K-style. I also unabashedly plug this play and this blog. Thanks very much to ITM host and creator Ricky Brigante for letting me do that. Episode 204 is here, I'm on at the end, but the other segments by Skipper Ben and Jay and Mark are great, too.
  
• These are wholly unrelated, but one of my favorite online humorists, Lore Sjoberg has been encouraging fan participation. First it was to create a superhero anagram based on Lore's Jug Sauce Elite cartoon. Mine was this ....

Yes, I know it's a little disturbing to see Captain America hanging from a tree with his leg and arm shattered. I promise, it's just supposed to be silly, not some bizarre political statement.



The next reader-contribution post was to write some light verse about Star Wars. I contributed ...


Three clerihews ...

Yoda
Loves soda
He says, “Do the Dew.” Know why?
Because there is no try.

Jango Fett
Didn’t bet
On winding up dead
He thought he’d come out a head

(this one's called "Two Jewish Princesses")
Padme Amidala
Likes challah
Leia Organa
Prefers manna


And two double dactyls:


Hark to the story of
Lando Calrissian:
Bespin investin’ brought
Fortune and fame.

He bent his ethics quite
Cumulo-nimbly
Screwing his friends is just
Part of the game.


Wrinkly Stinkily
Emperor Palpatine’s
Post-Windu cranium
Looks like a tush

Is he the ultimate
Neoconservative?
Cheney’s lost ancestor?
Is Jar-Jar Bush?


(again, no need to debate politics here, but everyone seems to think the third prequel was a Bush critique, so ...)