I'm lovin' it

[vovat]

Apparently I still prefer McDonald's biscuit breakfast sandwiches to the bagel ones. On the other hand, I like Wawa's Sizzli bagels much more than their biscuits. Go figure.

In other news, bethje and I left around 11 last night to go to Barnes & Noble and pick up our copies of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. They had us take numbered bracelets, and then enter in groups of fifty to get the books. I was number 608, except I wasn't totally sure of that until I checked out someone else's bracelet, because that's a number that makes sense upside-down as well. Better 608 than 809, so that was something that worked out for us, I suppose. Anyway, with the book, they gave us some green bracelet thingies, coupons we'll probably never use (I might possibly want to read Christopher Paolini's Eldest, since I read Eragon while at the library about a year ago, but I doubt I'll buy it), and advertising posters.

So far, I've only read the first chapter of the book. I know some people have commented on the fact that the Frank Bryce incident at the beginning of Goblet of Fire was the only occasion we saw something from a point of view other than Harry's. Well, this is no longer the case, since the first chapter of Half-Blood Prince doesn't include Harry at all, and a quick glance at the second makes it look like it doesn't either.

I finished reading most of The Hollyhock Dolls in Oz yesterday, but I still have a few chapters left to go. I'm not sure whether or not I should go ahead and read those before really getting into the Potter book.

In non-book-related news, we watched Gremlins 2 after getting back from the bookstore. I'd have to say I liked it better than the first one. It was funny, with a lot of self-referential humor. I thought the various mutated gremlins were cool, even if the electrical one didn't really make much sense. I guess they can do whatever they want when making up a fictional kind of creature, though.

After the movie, we caught a few glimpses of really-early-Saturday-morning TV. M. C. Hammer was preaching, and Bill Nye was talking about sex and drugs. Weird. After that, I read the first chapter of Half-Blood Prince (as recorded earlier in this post), and went to sleep. Then I got up and wrote this entry, which brings us right up to the present.

Comments

[3x1minus1.livejournal.com]

Bill Nye was talking about sex and drugs.

eeeeeeeeek! he's a preacher now, too? man.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Hammer is. Bill Nye isn't. (Maybe you already realized this, but the way you phrased your question was a little confusing.)

[3x1minus1.livejournal.com]

i know about hammer, but the way you wrote that, i thought bill nye was preaching too. why was he talking about sex on his show? ew.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

The show was about drug addiction, but there was a part where he said something like, "Humans enjoy eating, drinking, and sex." Beth and I just looked at each other in disbelief when hearing that. {g} I think his point was that drugs stimulate the same pleasure centers in the brain as food and sex, but it was still weird to hear.

[slfcllednowhere.livejournal.com]

*icon love*

[3x1minus1.livejournal.com]

ha, thanks

[bethje.livejournal.com]

Dr. Drew was on the show with Bill Nye. It looked like some kind of psychology program. It came on the New Jersey PBS, and they sometimes show "Psychology Today" or something. I guess this is a new, hipper version of the same. Bill Nye should wash his mouth out for saying "having sex," though. {g}

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I once saw Bill Nye shove a hot dog into a flashlight. Maybe something could be read into that. {g}

[slfcllednowhere.livejournal.com]

Haha last night I was looking at the TV listings on Yahoo and saw the Hammer thing and was highly amused.

Bill Nye = hot.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

Bill Nye = hot.

Really???? I am so glad you said that, because I've always had a bit of a thing for him myself....

Of course, maybe you WERE being sarcastic... but in any case... I've always had a bit of a thing for him myself, anyway...!

I know some people have commented on the fact that the Frank Bryce incident at the beginning of Goblet of Fire was the only occasion we saw something from a point of view other than Harry's.
Not true, the very first chapter of the very first book, it's from Uncle Vernon's, and then an omniscient narrator's....

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Not true, the very first chapter of the very first book, it's from Uncle Vernon's, and then an omniscient narrator's....

Yeah, that's true. I'd forgotten about that. I guess a really significant difference would be if there were a chapter written from a different point of view in the MIDDLE of a Potter book, but I haven't read enough of Half-Blood Prince to know whether this is the case in that one (although I tend to doubt it).

[slfcllednowhere.livejournal.com]

Haha no I was totally serious. If I ever make a "people associated with kids' shows who therefore make me feel rather inappropriate for being attracted to them" list, Bill Nye will totally be on it, right up there with Steve from Blue's Clues.