Quick Note to Self

[handful_ofdust]

The fun thing about today's 'Net-enabled hive-mind is that you can use other people's reactions to make decisions like: "Ah, I see that now Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay is out, the Powers That Be have dropped The Hunger Games to ten bucks as a cheap gateway drug. Are the other books worth it, after that? No? Okay: Hunger Games alone it will be."

Because I can easily make that choice, since an open-ended story that doesn't end on a total cliffhanger (Gemma Files, I'm lookin' at you!) allows for me to make up whatever eventual conclusion I want, without having to see the actual conclusion spelled out for me. Sort of like how I can still enjoy The Matrix (or, indeed, The Matrix: Reloaded, if I'm feeling silly).

In other news, I don't much care about the whole LJ/Facebook thing. I messed with my settings some and feel fairly secure, to the extent you can feel secure about anything. Dreamwidth remains not a place I want to frequent. Worst-case scenario, I'll go to Blogger for everything or stop blogging generally, which would probably be best for my output. Yet seems unlikely.;)

Anyhoo. Today the fridge supposedly arrives, so I must run to the CIBC and get a new debit card, because mine has finally worn down to the point where it won't work anymore. This caused much embarrassment at Starbuck's yesterday, a state of affairs I don't feel like repeating.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

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And I agree with you about making up your own ending! I liked ONLY Star Wars, the first movie. Nothing else after that, much. And same with The Matrix.

What irks me about Mockingjay etc. is how that one trilogy is everywhere on my friends list these days. But I guess that's what "it's popular" is all about.

Re: the comments stuff with LJ, the thing, always always, about anything, is that you can only ever control *yourself*. So, if you worry about privacy violations, take appropriate steps from the get-go, in terms of who you let see your entries, etc. Still, I'd have preferred it if LJ hadn't added this "feature."

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Yeah, popularity does tend to equal ubiquity. Nevertheless, I started reading Hunger Games in the store, and it's certainly a suck-you-in-type narrative. Like Battle Royale in the post-Apocalyptic Appalachians.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I don't doubt it's good! I've heard only favorable things about it. Though your mention of Appalachians is the first thing that's grabbed me personally.