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handful_ofdust ([personal profile] handful_ofdust) wrote2010-09-02 09:12 am

Quick Note to Self

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.

[identity profile] intertribal.livejournal.com 2010-09-02 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I remember skipping to the end and reading the whole "yay we're dead" scene - that's when the dismay came in - but I also remember the point I stopped reading was when Puzzle was being dressed up as the False Aslan. I never fucking got what was so great about Aslan. Whenever he showed up in the other books I was like, "oh, maaaaan." I also rooted for the White Witch, esp. when played by Tilda Swinton. Clearly I'm a Satanist or something.

[identity profile] intertribal.livejournal.com 2010-09-02 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Jadist conveniently rhymes with Sadist.

That's all I got.
sovay: (Cho Hakkai: intelligence)

[personal profile] sovay 2010-09-02 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Jadist? Charnist?

Jadist.