Have read about 200 pages of "Prisoner of Azkaban" and decided that it is such a compulsively formulaic and utterly ridiculous drag that I will not read any more. Why should I care about H.P. in the first place? Well, to start with, because I was in Holland when it got big and so many of those pathological, uptight, Evangelical moralists made a big deal of it. Then I got a shirt from the thrift store that was a kind of Gryffindor quidditch team jersey (which embarrassingly enough I was too chickenshit to wear because of the witch-hunters that were going to burn me at the stake). Then everyone surmised that I was "Harry Potter, The College Years" incarnate. Later we discovered many new friends that were all up-ons about H.P. and finally I decided to get sucked in. I quasi-enjoyed "Chamber of Secrets" but the third-in-series just plain blows. You see, I wanted to read for myself what was all the Hula Hoop about this series of hopelessly Scooby-Doo-ish books that made the once-homeless Rowling into multi-gazillionaire (second only to Dan Brown in the literary world).
Hell, I'm not even sure why I rant.
In other news, I recently found out that I am a "4" which means I am something of a Romantic/Individualist, although I have very Observer/Investigator tendencies. This is my latest obsession. It is called the Enneagram and it is a personality categorizer similar to - yet quite different from - the familiar Psych 101 Myers-Briggs test.
By the way, I am positively uninterested in this blogging nonsense. How ironic, eh? It strikes me as some kind of reverse-voyeurism, a self-absorbed and narcissistic indulgence - and in the most graphic terms, a sort of psycho-analytic masturbation. The more forthright and gruesome, the better: read, read, read and never get enough!
I prefer human relationships. Let this ugly cur-bastard-child of a replacement for personal human contact pass away, and dry up like a raisin in the sun.
Man, I love to rant. What a self-congratulatory waste of time for all parties involved.
But the 4 in me gives this last caveat: I'm a passionate SOB when I want to be (which is usually always), so take my words with a salt shaker handy (is that mixing metaphors?)
5.03.2006
A broom now in pieces like a raisin in the sun.
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This is all for a reaction? Probably true. But isn't that the desired effect of my monologue?
In retrospect and reread I feel some inclination to censor and/or retract the above statement. I can't decide which is more ironic and which is more me.
ahh yes.
whatever the case, I enjoyed reading it and feeling a bit of a sting, probably a healthy one, as I agree too much with the nature of the blog.
in other news, students can now legally work 25 hours a week off campus!
You're a book snob. HP is the best.
A choice comment from Gabe L (as I expected, for I knew that you were a Potter-ophile). Correction: I'm just a snob.
Hey I gave it a fair chance. Very fair, in fact. Hm. Maybe I should just skip right on to "Goblet of Fire" hoping that Rowling has finally tried something original.
What? Dissing Harry Potter? Sacrilege!
(You can't win, you see!) :-D
I have decided I like this blog.
Only Biss, only Biss. (Could make such a punchy statement.)
When I get back, I'll have some select conversations about this HP business. But you must understand: when wearing my glasses while substitute teaching grade school, the girls practically swoon thinking I'm him minus the lightning scar. They want my autograph. That has a particular effect upon my state of being you see.
For childrens fantasy I would suggest reading The Edgeworld Chronicles. I like them better than the HP books (and I absolutely despise the HP movies). Plus there's lots of them, so we don't have to wait on JK for the next three years.
sorry thats the EDGE chronicles. Not the EDGEWORLD chronicles
Boy Isaiah, you sure know what to post to get others to comment on your blog! I have so many thoughts giong through my head right now that I can't decide what to argue about first. So I'll just go to bed.
By the way, writing "H.P." instead of "Harry Potter" makes me laugh - it seems elitist, but you don't even like the books. It made me chuckle. I wonder if you secretly love Harry and want to be him therefore wearing look-a-like glasses and signing autgraphs in the teachers lounge. I can see it now... :)
Darn you, "Owen's Mama", you hit the ole nail on the head, and turned my argument on my head in the process! (There I go mixing metaphors again.)
Thanks for the rant Isaiah!!! a good semi-well thought out rant is great from time to time!! At lease my rants are usually semi-well thought out...others might put more time and effort into theirs...
Personally the mass flocking to read Davinci Code is more annoying than H.P. Even more annoying are the mulititudes of people who take everything the book says as solid truth. There is only one Gospel...and it isn't written by Dan Brown
that being said...the book isn't bad and the movie might be decent entertainment!
Well, yes. DaVinci is a kind of second coming of HP. And there is only one HP book left, yet. Good thing, too, because perhaps the mass hysteria is waning. Amazingly, three years after original publication, Brown's book is still on the upsurge. And that is just one book!
I just can't live down this "Hey, you look like Harry Potter!" business at the schools. I think that is root of the problem. It only feeds my inherent conceit.
you are wise to beware of the addiction.
and wise to not have computer access in your home. once it's there, it's hard to lose. like cable. and cold sores. haha.
Isaiah. I want to here more stories of middle-schoolers claiming you are one of the Beatles. Or maybe like breaking up fights or taking away cell phones. Yes, cell phones in school. What is your opinion about that?
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