Books, tv, blah blah blah
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vaznettiRight. Enough whining about my RL woes, which are not really all that woeful anyway. The boiler is fixed, which is all you need to know.
I do feel vaguely odd about being practically the only person I know who is involved in HP fandom (even in a tenuous way) and not planning to rush out and buy OotP first thing tomorrow, or midnight, or whenever it comes out. I figure I'll grab a copy to read in the Blackwell's coffee shop, because I have no shame, and buy it when it appears in paperback. I have enough unwieldy hardbacks in my life.*
It's not that I don't want to read it; I just don't want to own it. I resent the hysteria, as well. Which is not meant as a slap against any of you. It's just my thing. I think I may watch the Rowling interview with Jeremy Paxman, unless we go see a movie, but that's because I've never seen Paxman do a "soft" interview, and am dying to see if he will break and start interrogating her properly.
The B.H. is still having trouble coming to terms with the end of Farscape. He wants another season. I think that this is my one great chance to get him to read fanfic, but will have to tread carefully, as he remains resistant to the notion. At some point I will almost certainly come back here for suggestions, as I don't read enough Farscape fic to know where to start. Meanwhile, because I'm slow, I've only just realized that Brookside has been canceled--or so it seems. This British soap was my chief guilty pleasure for many years, although I began to lose interest after Lindsey Corkhill gave up her life of lesbian crime. As the B.H. said, no matter how miserable you were, you could always watch Brookside for the reassurance that someone out there had an even sadder life.
*Wieldy hardbacks, that is, new Dalziel and Pascoe novels, are another matter altogether. One cannot have enough Wield in one's life.
I do feel vaguely odd about being practically the only person I know who is involved in HP fandom (even in a tenuous way) and not planning to rush out and buy OotP first thing tomorrow, or midnight, or whenever it comes out. I figure I'll grab a copy to read in the Blackwell's coffee shop, because I have no shame, and buy it when it appears in paperback. I have enough unwieldy hardbacks in my life.*
It's not that I don't want to read it; I just don't want to own it. I resent the hysteria, as well. Which is not meant as a slap against any of you. It's just my thing. I think I may watch the Rowling interview with Jeremy Paxman, unless we go see a movie, but that's because I've never seen Paxman do a "soft" interview, and am dying to see if he will break and start interrogating her properly.
The B.H. is still having trouble coming to terms with the end of Farscape. He wants another season. I think that this is my one great chance to get him to read fanfic, but will have to tread carefully, as he remains resistant to the notion. At some point I will almost certainly come back here for suggestions, as I don't read enough Farscape fic to know where to start. Meanwhile, because I'm slow, I've only just realized that Brookside has been canceled--or so it seems. This British soap was my chief guilty pleasure for many years, although I began to lose interest after Lindsey Corkhill gave up her life of lesbian crime. As the B.H. said, no matter how miserable you were, you could always watch Brookside for the reassurance that someone out there had an even sadder life.
*Wieldy hardbacks, that is, new Dalziel and Pascoe novels, are another matter altogether. One cannot have enough Wield in one's life.
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Date: 2003-06-20 04:53 am (UTC)Oh yes. Because really, I have very little interest in what questions were asked and what answers were given. It'll just be one of a million similar Q&A sessions, and JKR has been doing the media rounds for long enough that she'll have her guarded answers down pat.
It's all about the tone of voice in which the questions are asked and whether Paxman broke out the thumbscrews. :-)
(Currently under fire in Algiers, wondering about Marthe...)