Good-bye to you

If I play my cards just so and get all of my homework and chores done before Saturday, I think I will be geared up for the perfect Sunday. My plan is to read Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows from cover to cover, stopping only to refresh my spritzer.

I was going to try to make it until the end of the semester, August 6th, and then read the whole series straight through. The fact that the book isn’t even officially released and there are already spoilers up everywhere, however, makes me think that I can’t stay in a media vacuum long enough to read the book and not know how it ends. Instead, I will try to read it in a single setting this Sunday. We will see how it goes.

The household watched Saw III last night, and guess what? It sucked. The genre, I believe, is called torture porn and although I am gorehound from way back, I like it untied to plot, or even worse, some hack's idea of a morality play. As we discussed last night, we think it is pretty rich that Jigsaw would target someone for being vengeful, when his whole life is taking revenge on people that don’t appreciate life. Jigsaw, of course, thinks he is righteous, the sure sign of a zealot, and therefore, cannot see the parallels between what he considers murder and what the rest of the world considers murder. The whole franchise is focused on a character that is painfully pious, high-handed, and insufferably self-righteous. Boo to that.

Time has stopped moving forward at work. I won’t make it out alive.