Polling for Dollars

[vovat]

All right. You asked for more polls (well, some of you did, anyway), and now I'm giving you one! Because, hey, you haven't done enough voting so far this week, have you?

[Poll #1084584]

Comments

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

The only reason I put "don't like" for media reviews is just the times it's a whole entry based on something I haven't seen/heard/read, I just kinda go "eh" and skim over it; but you might notice I also picked "like" for media reviews, so don't let it sway you any.

The one question that didn't have an "other" option was the length of entry one, for which I actually prefer the One Long Entry Subdivided Into Labeled Sections or Bullets.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I think I should also mention that I ended up voting for the fantasy land I was least familiar with, but when it comes to LIVING in a place, ice cream trees win every time.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure ice cream trees have been mentioned as growing anywhere in Oz other than the isolated valley of Oogaboo, but perhaps they've been exported elsewhere.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I've occasionally thought that the sign of a really good writer is that you'll be interested in what they're saying even if you're not actually familiar with what they're talking about. But I would flatter myself to think I was that good of a writer.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

Well you are a decent writer and there are often times I enjoy reading things in which I don't know what you're talking about, I just am more likely to skip what I don't know about when I am simultaneously trying to wrestle a baby and give myself a guilt trip for reading lj instead of working on the book project, you see....

[revme.livejournal.com]

That's the same reason I did "oz". It's not that I _dislike_ them, I'm just unfamiliar with Oziana aside from the real real basics (i.e. the Wizard, and how fucking creepy Return To Oz was), so it kinda goes over my head, y'know?

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, makes sense to me.

[obsessical.livejournal.com]

I would definitely live in the harry potter world. Just because if I lived in the Star Wars galaxy, i'd probably be some drone working on the Death Star or something. I odn't think Star Wars would be fun unless you were Luke Skywalker or something. Even if I was just a regular wizard kid, I'd still get to go to Hogwarts and have some cool wizard adventures, even if they weren't as cool as Potter's. Also I could be the first GAY STUDENT at Hogwarts, because APPARENTLY NO CHILDREN ARE GAY IN HARRY POTTER'S WORLD.

also when i said i didn't like oz stuff, i didn't mean you shouldn't write about it. it's your journal and you should write about whatever you want to write about. don't be so concerned with getting comments. I write about what I want to write about, or if I ask for help/an opinion on something. Mostly it's your journal, it's what you write for posterity, dude.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Also I could be the first GAY STUDENT at Hogwarts, because APPARENTLY NO CHILDREN ARE GAY IN HARRY POTTER'S WORLD.

Hey, Dumbledore was a child at one point, right? Besides, there are plenty of characters whose sexual orientations are never given at all.

Mostly it's your journal, it's what you write for posterity, dude.

A lot of people seem to share that opinion, but I've never been someone who kept a diary or anything, and while I do sometimes go back and read my old entries, I feel a little silly writing solely for myself. I guess part of it is a need for validation, but I also prefer a discussion to a monologue, especially now that a lot of the topic-specific mailing lists I subscribed to have either significantly decreased in postings or died out entirely.

Even though several people have identified Oz stuff as not interesting, I don't plan to stop writing it. Since most of it fits under "media reviews" anyway, I mostly just made it a category so I could see whether anyone who wasn't really familiar with the books read any of my posts on the subject. So far, the answer seems to be no, but that's pretty much what I expected.

[yosef.livejournal.com]

I always loved the McDonaldland playland at one of our local McDonalds. It was the only one around that had the old 70s(?) stuff still up (this was in the 80s/early-90s). All the other ones had converted to the tubes and ballpit thing. Oh McDonalds, how you've trapped me in your web of lies by sweetening my childhood with Happy Meals and fun character-shaped play structures!

Hmm, Firefox is saying that McDonalds isn't a word, unlike a lot of other proper nouns. Is that their sly way of sticking it to the man? Let's try Walmart... also not a word. Disney? is a word. Weird!

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to think of the playlands I've seen at McDonald's, and the main thing I can remember is the big tree with a face on it. I think they also tend to feature characters who are no longer used in the commercials, like Captain Crook.

"McDonald's," with the apostrophe included, doesn't give me any trouble in Firefox. I do have to wonder about their dictionary, though. Based on other replies I've made today, it recognizes the name of the Babylonian god Marduk, but not the word "axe."

[yosef.livejournal.com]

whoops... well, at least it still doesn't acknowledge Walmart. Because I'm a dork I just tested fantasy locations... Oz and Wonderland are real words, while Narnia is not.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Well, the word "oz" can mean other things, so I don't know that that's necessarily acknowledgment of the fairyland.

[shadarko.livejournal.com]

man that was difficult, oz or discworld. Oz = no taxes and immortality, discworld = fat mines and weatherwax. damn it.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Well, hey, Oz has pepper and mustard mines, so that's something, right?

I think one interesting thing about Discworld is that it's presented as a fantasy world that's no better or worse than our own, and hence a far cry from utopian lands like Oz.