When has Plan A ever worked?

This is for anyone who is a) following the American elections and b) plays tabletop role-playing games: Adventuring Party Politics: The Campaign is Getting Ugly.

My thanks to nymphish for emailing that to me.

I'm visiting my mate Andy in London, and last night we got on to the topic of the Harry Potter books (he's known for ages about my slash obsession). Andy was telling me how much he loved OotP and how disappointed he was by HBP.

Fair enough, everyone is entitled to thier opinions. But we discussed futher and it turns out that Andy got his copy of HBP as a ebook pirated from god knows where. So he starts talking about some of the plot elements and how it reads like bad fanfiction. At this point I ask if I can take a look at the ebook.

Guess what?

It is bad fanfiction!! With original characters and everything!

I'm not really sure what it says for JKR that Andy couldn't distinguish between the two...

www.weeklyworldnews.com and Winchesters Fight Supernatural Menace With Weekly World News

I also liked the Evil Genius Test :)

Snakes on a train!

Thanks to smutella for telling the world (well, the small corner I know about) about this.