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Feb 18, 2008 20:28

So today is the day of the birth of the Mama of the Cleo! It is also her sister's (my aunt's) birthday. However, my aunt (her sister) is five years younger. Yeah... we don't really know how that happened, exactly. I mean, at least Sister Girl and I were born seven years and three days apart. Anyway, that's what I'm doing this evening: dinner, ( Read more... )

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r_a_black February 19 2008, 04:01:50 UTC
Just on the bit of "Will Twilight the the new Harry Potter?"

No. No. No, and a thousand times, no. The books are okay for a read, I'm looking forward to the next one, but for the love of God, every single time a new series gets it's fifteen minutes, suddenly it's the New Harry Potter. When will people just accept that Harry Potter is Harry Potter and Something Else will simply be Something Else. Bah.

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dreamingreader February 19 2008, 04:13:39 UTC
iawthc.

And how many "new Harry Potters" have we had? 50? 100? Maybe instead of having a "new Harry Potter", we should have "hey look at this great book!"

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r_a_black February 19 2008, 18:46:03 UTC
I have a book club with some co-workers of mine, we work in a bookstore, and when we meet I'm often told how again the current book we're reading is being called "the New Harry Potter" and I'm thinking, "I just heard about this book because of this club, are you kidding me?" I work at a bookstore, for the love of god, and I still don't hear about these books!

But yeah, just saying, "This is book is awesome, read it" would be a lot better instead of bandwaggoning on HP.

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cleolinda February 19 2008, 04:38:23 UTC
I think it's unusually tempting in this case because Cedric Diggory is involved. I think really, though, "Harry Potter" is code for "shitloads of money."

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weds February 19 2008, 04:11:39 UTC
Oh, thank you for posting the Diablo Cody stuff.

That whole "and suddenly she was a FAMOUS SCREENWRITER!" thing is basically driving me off the rails with associated writing-insecurity crap. That sort of stuff is oddly reassuring, like you actually have to have some weight behind you to be taken seriously after the first chunk of your fifteen.

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sevenmarie February 19 2008, 04:23:59 UTC
Hey! my mommy and HER sister are born on the same day 6 years apart (jan 6) not only that but they have different dads (my grandmother's 1st husband died in ww2) so that is carazy!

not only that my friend Dan's uncle, grandfather and great grandfather were all born on the same day of the year!

and my husband was born the day after his moms birthday. way to ruin her birthday party there bud ;oP

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edda February 19 2008, 04:37:50 UTC
Happy Burfday, Cleo's Mom! May Gerald descend temporarily from the heavens and shower you with many, many store credits!

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cleolinda February 19 2008, 04:39:26 UTC
Heeeeee, that should totally happen. Or maybe a free meal at Sonic, God help us.

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library_of_sex February 19 2008, 04:52:14 UTC
For a short month, February sees a lotta birthdays! It's my friend Jackie's b-day today, my mom's tomorrow, and mine next week! Like my icon says, "Holla!"

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