It's All Nineteen, Anyway.

[mike_smith]

I'm gonna be seeing "Serenity" in a li'l bit, because I could go for a movie, and some sick, sad part of me demands I check this thing out to see if it lives up to the hype, or dies like its flagging box office take (now a staggering $14.3 million). Sort of the same sado-masochistic tendencies that got me reading this book. More on this next time

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[sabra_n]

This goes about as well as you'd expect, as she randomly discusses whatever she happens to notice, in a tone that makes me wonder if she doesn't eat Quaaludes for every meal.

I think that might be the best assessment of Luna Lovegood I've ever heard. Even though I loved her commentary.

-blue

19: Ridonkulous.

[aberranteyes]

I love Luna dearly, but only because, like me, she spends most of her time only physically present on Earth.

Oh, and you get my Browncoat icon because it's also my "fucking 19" icon.

[seductivedark]

Yeah, McClaggen is pretty pathetic. I hadn't thought of it that way before, but he does seem to want to be Ron.

[jim_smith]

"So, all in all, not one of Ron's better birthdays?" observes Fred while visiting his kid brother in the hospital. Eat me, Fred.

Holy crap, did Rowling actually manage to depict Fred doing something independently of George? I would figure they'd both visit Ron simultaneously, and indeed share this line of dialogue.

Galva Ron murmurs "Er-my-nee" in his sleep, which I guess puts the final nail in the coffin of all those Harry/Hermione shippers.

Are you sure he didn't bang his patella when he collapsed from the poison, and that he isn't just groaning "Erk...my knee!"?

On the way, Harry passes by Señor Draco, with a pair of girls in tow

Whoa, and I thought I was a smooth operator...! I don't see why he's calling Harry "The Boy Who Scored."

NEXT: Snape versus a Bear!

So suddenly this stupid book is about Draco's nailing two chicks at once and Snape's wrestling bears? Are we in a beer commercial?

[rubyd]

On the way, Harry passes by Señor Draco, with a pair of girls in tow

The funny just keeps coming.

[mike_smith]

On the way, Harry passes by Señor Draco, with a pair of girls in tow

The funny just keeps coming.

What? That was really what happened in the book. He had a couple girls with him on their way to... whatever.

I mean, anything I say about robots and murder, _that's_ the stuff I'm making up.

[mmmdraco]

When everything resolves itself, you will dig your eyeballs out with sporks... or perhaps just curl your toes, lips, and eyebrows simultaneously.

Also, Sometimes I wonder if cashiers just sit around all day looking forward to the next time a customer purchases something they like. Yes. Yes, we do. Because a vast majority of the time, we're thinking to ourselves, "Why do people only buy things that suck? Why is it that when I work in this bookstore with more space for manga than for reference material... I sell more reference material? And romance novels? Why do women buy $200 of them at once every month? I buy $50 of manga (after discount) per month and that's been too much lately for my single scad of free time!" (I talk fast in my head.) So, when someone buys something cool, you want to applaud them for not sucking, and you want to let them know that you're doing so since you can't give them a discount on it. But, some people talk too much. I usually say stuff as I'm ringing it up, and leave the decision about starting a

[c2t2]

Agh, please dont remind me how much I used to pay for DBZ VHS tapes *slinks off muttering*

[mindset]

Wait. On DBZ they fight Cell in a Hell? Isn't that a little backwards?

And somehow I'd missed the bit about "dolphin-sized footprints" before. Man, that's an odd comparison.

Anyway, Mike, good job, keep going. :)

[mike_smith]

Well, it's Japan, so they do everything ass-backwards

[jim_smith]

Also, how do you even know they're in Hell, given that they're fighting against an empty yellow background, just like every other scene in all 8,000 episodes of DBZ!?

And somehow I'd missed the bit about "dolphin-sized footprints" before. Man, that's an odd comparison.

Now I want to see Hagrid's dolphin-sized feet against the Big Show's typewriter-like hands.

[mike_smith]

Also, how do you even know they're in Hell, given that they're fighting against an empty yellow background, just like every other scene in all 8,000 episodes of DBZ!?

Because I said so. Now someone gimme a damn beer.