Bye Bye Potter

So I forced myself to stay up until 2 am this morning finishing the last Harry Potter book. I forced myself not to read at my usual speed so I could prolong the ending (re-read book 6 in two days) and so I could enjoy every moment.

It was definitely sad. I enjoy books. I love losing myself in them. And I found myself on edge and loving it throughout this one.

Of course, when the book first came out, I would have NOTHING to do with it. I refused to read a children's book until Sara told me I was missing out. I devoured the four released books in about a month and became part of the manic fold. I even went the midnight release parties for books 5 and 6. I did not go to the one for this book preferring to avoid the insanity of a NY book party.

So....yeah...I admit it. I am a fan and I love the books. They may not be the highest form of literature, but they do what literature is supposed to do: Tell a story and move us.

Now...how they turn this final book into a movie should be interesting. It is a bloodbath and by far darker than any of the other books.

I Blog for No Reason

I signed into Blogger and got to the post page and realized I don't really have anything to say. The summer is slow and hot. I can't seem to get myself out of the bedroom, but at least I have managed to start writing again. Finished three short stories in about four days and now I edit and rewrite like any good writer. If these sell to magazines (please....someone) then I can use that to get representation and build the other short stories for a collection. I think that is the route I want to go. I would rather my sophomore pub be a novel instead of falling under the dreaded second novel curse (knowing fully well that there will be a second novel no matter where the first one comes in).

The jobs are steadily holding for now although I know the shoe will drop at any moment and am desperately trying to find other work to do before I have to start selling off more personal belongings.

I have nothing politically or socially savvy to say (altho some would say I never had to begin with to which I say...eff you).

Have a lovely week. Stay cool. Feed a pigeon.

More Bush Whackery

Bush commutes Libby's prison sentence - CNN.com

I don't get this. Good Ol' Dub is truly turning out to be the stupidest and worst president of the U.S. beyond even what I could imagine. Just when you think a politician could not sink any lower, he has found levels in a swamp bog that not even a mummified caveman could reach.

He commuted Libby's sentence?!?!?!

And is my use of multiple punctuation marks a reflection of surprise or disgust? He claims he was under great pressure to pardon Libby. Who the hell pressures the leader of the free world to commute a scumbag's sentence????

That time it was surprise.

This is just one more instance of the severe disruption and corruption of the so-called democratic ideal of this country. I mean just when you think Bush can't screw the country or its image up anymore he manages to outdo himself.

I feel bad for whoever ends up taking the office after this eight-year farrago. They have a slew of political vomit to clean out of the carpets.

On an unrelated noted, I finally got off my ass and started watching Tony's Nip/Tuck seasons.

It is what one does when they sequester themselves in their bedroom for an undetermined amount of time.

I have always been curious about the show and have burned through the first two seasons in four days. What a deranged and demented series...I love it. It is completely ridiculous and I find myself astonished after each episode wondering why I am still watching the next one at 3 in the morning....but the damned thing is good. It is twisted in all those socially reflective ways but also ridiculous in all those "this can't possibly be how people act" ways.

And then you read about Libby being commuted and you realize nothing on a show like Nip/Tuck could top the depravity of the Bush administration.

As Sara would say, it is as this point that HomeSec (sorry, I know you hate the term) would mark me as a national threat and tag me for migratory purposes.