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This week’s Youtube Monday highlights how a little kid beginning out on the drums at age 2 can play by the time he hits 11:

The Youtube comments are hilarious - they complain a lot about how the parents screwed the kid out of a promising career as a drummer by making him play with awful bands.

If you’ve never heard of this heat-sensitive fish that swims instinctively to warm, urea-laden streams of water, you’ve got quite a story waiting for you about the candirú. Male viewers may wish to relieve themselves before watching this week’s Youtube Monday.

Moral of the story: if you gotta go, make sure you go before setting off into the depths of Amazonia and hope that your bladder doesn’t burst.

“I always thought of Dumbledore as gay. [ovation.] … Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald, and that that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was. To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extent? But, he met someone as brilliant as he was, and rather like Bellatrix he was very drawn to this brilliant person, and horribly, terribly let down by him… “If I’d known it would make you so happy, I would have announced it years ago!”‘ - J. K. Rowling, intervew transcript at Carnegie Hall.

The Christian fundamentalists must be having a field day with this. Not only does Dumbledore represent a prominent figure in witchcraft, he’s a blasphemous homosexual!

Which makes Dumbledore’s existence in Singapore illegal, of course, under Section 377A. Now you know: every single one of those accursed Harry Potter books revels in an authority figure that  controversial and subversive beyond his defiance of established government institutions! How did the censors not catch that, eh?

Reference

1. The Leaky Cauldron, “J. K. Rowling at Carnegie Hall Reveals Dumbledore is Gay; Neville Marries Hannah Abbott, and Much More“, 2007-10-19.

Australian artiste Raymond Crowe makes really awesome hand shadows that have to be seen to be believed. I quite like the eyes.