Pop culture blindspots. Not all belonging to one person. I must admit, I share more than one...and I wouldn't call not having seen Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas that big a deal. Not like not having seen any Star Wars movie.

Yeah, but....I wanted to grab the author who hadn't seen the movie of Fear and Loathing and smack her repeatedly with THE BOOK (which came first). Hello? Not everything was a movie first.

The pop culture blind spot article was fun, except for the guy who's never seen Citizen Kane. Not that there's anything wrong with not having seen it, but if you haven't seen it you don't get to run around calling it the most overrated movie of all time.

Besides, that honor goes to Magnolia.

I have to say, though, that the guy who said that he'd never read a book by any of the big best-selling authors (Tom Clancy, Stephen King, John Grisham, etc.) has NOTHING to be ashamed of.

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I have to say, though, that the guy who said that he'd never read a book by any of the big best-selling authors (Tom Clancy, Stephen King, John Grisham, etc.) has NOTHING to be ashamed of.

And not having seen the article, all I can say is that while I agree with you, it set my back up the way that people getting on their high horse about not watching tv does. Nothing to be ashamed of, but no automatic more-intellectual-than-thou points either. But that's a total knee-jerk on my part, though, probably not at all borne out by the guy or the article. I only mention because I was kind of surprised at the strength of my response.

I just got what I think might be a 5000 word email from Nilly telling me how happy she is that she got my ARC in the mail.

I'd just like to note that it made it to Israel before it made it to me.

Teppy! Happy, um, third-day-of-your-new-age!

[Edit: Allyson! It was *that* long? Um. Sorry.]

set my back up the way that people getting on their high horse about not watching tv does.

Heh. Yep. Those "Kill your television" people bugged me.

Once at a pancake place in San Francisco I found a "Kill Your Television" sticker on the bathroom wall. So I wrote on it, "But TV is our friend!"

Yeah, I was a rebel....

I have never seen The Godfather.

Tim says he's dragging me into his home theater as soon as it's done and going all Clockwork Orange to my eyeballs to make me watch it.

I think you might have a mail curse, Allyson. There's one hovering over southern NM, it might be spreading.

(Seriously, it takes over two weeks for stuff from my parents to get to me. The postal service down there is majorly fucked up and the Postmaster General knows it.)

Heh, Nilly. I loved every word. Jilli sent me an email of happiness, too.

I have no idea how long I'll be able to stay at work when my box comes today.

Don't spoil me. I haven't read it, yet.

Belated birthday happies to Steph.

This was not a good weekend for me. Long story short, on Saturday I was in a very minor car accident (as in scratched bumpers was about it) but it was entirely my fault (I backed into someone at an intersection because the person in front of me started backing up and I backed up to avoid them WITHOUT EVEN LOOKING IN MY MIRROR).

So I basically spent the rest of the (very beautiful) weekend (that I basically wasted) beating myself up over being so stupid. I've only been in one other accident, when someone basically did the same thing to me I did to this guy (they backed into me while they were parking). I'm also not sure if the guy is going to file a claim or not. His car didn't look any worse than mine (which I wouldn't even know had been in an accident since it had a few scratches already), but he might want a shiny new bumper out of this, which would cost me money and raise my rates. Ugh. Not a major issue but I can't stop thinking about being so dumb. Which is probably why I basically couldn't sleep last night, so I've also achieved maximum gronk today.

t /me me me whining

Don't spoil me. I haven't read it, yet.

Psst. Don't tell Allyson that the plucky heroine dies at the end....