I wanted the bit at the end where Harry is explaining to the Dursleys about his escaped convicted murderer godfather who takes his welfare very seriously.

A very, very long time (probably close to two years) ago I sent my copy of Reading the Vampire Slayer out on a merry trip of the US so various Buffistas could read it. Can someone tell me where it is now? It was a fairly short list of people so I'm guessing it's vaguely near the end, and if it's sent back to the address I was using at the time, I'll never see it again.

My house.

Send me the address, and I'll send it back to you.

Thanks Plei! I sent my address to your profile email.

I'm miffed that I didn't get a Snicket trailer.

Did some people actually get a trailer? I only saw a display.

I got a Snicket trailer, with music from Edward Scissorhands, I think, which was pretty cool. I didn't recognize Jim Carrey until about halfway through it. It looked decent.

I'm reading The Well of Lost Plots at the moment (it's the third in the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde) and there are some things that are really bugging me, namely the complete breakdown of logic in regards to the fictional world. I can't make any of it make sense. Are all characters Generics at "birth"? Are all books actually cobbled together in the Well of Lost Plots and them beamed out into the authors' heads, and if so, why is there still such reverence for authors if they're just taking diction from whomever it is that's actually putting the books together? Etc. etc. etc. I liked the first book largely because of the worldbuilding--the Baconian society, the Richard III/Rocky Horror Show scene, etc. But WOLP takes place almost entirely within the BookWorld, and it seems like it's just one wacky idea after another without much attempt to put them together coherently .

I got a Snicket trailer -- it was the first of 7 or 8 -- and as soon as it started, I knew what the movie was. I was by myself (though the theatre was decently full), and I clapped my hands and said "Oh, yay!"

Nobody actually switched seats to be further away from me, but I could see them thinking it.

I just finished reading Lemony Snicket's Unauthorized Autobiography, and I find myself more and more annoyed, (which here means sick and tired of all the useless hints and and frustrating clues and pointless digressions but unable to stop reading the damn books despite all that), but the movie trailer did look kind of cool.

But WOLP takes place almost entirely within the BookWorld, and it seems like it's just one wacky idea after another without much attempt to put them together coherently .

Huh. That would have been my description of the first.

I have no idea why I don't like the Snicket books. They seem custom-designed for me, but I just can't read them. It's like trying to read the journal ramblings of a mental patient.

Also, I took another run at HP:OotP last night and today, and am very much hoping that the long delay for Book 6 has been caused by a team of highly-trained elite editors, who parachuted into the manuscript and began laying about with weed-whackers.