Harry Potter and the Infinite Sadness

I had some fun last Friday reliving good old bookselling days at Olsson's Courthouse location in Arlington, VA. It was great to see former colleagues, former customer/friends and a heck of a lot of excited people. Excited people excited about a book. Nothing better---anyone who attended or worked it got a bit of a contact high with all the excellent book nerdage. Long live fantasy, long live imagination, long live getting lost in a shared cultural experience.

It was even fun letting the occasional drunk but Harry-jonesing young people come in to buy a book after we had turned the key.

After barrelling through the book by Sunday morning, I relaxed, savored for a few days and then moved on. Something about reading an excellent book inspires you to find an equally enthralling book. I picked up an advanced copy of 'Redemption Falls' by Joseph O'Connor. He wrote one of favorite books--'Star of the Sea'. Find that book, buy that book, read that book.

And I end this little post with one thought that crept in quite naughtily. Picture this: Animated series about the adventures of little Teddy Lupin and all of his super-friends at Hogwarts. It will be better than the Animaniacs. Come on! Wouldn't that ruin it all quite brilliantly. They can do little paperback picture books with horrible dialog based on the tv show?

Eastwood Rocket

I got this a couple of days ago played it on my small fender practice amp and loved the sound I had to dig out my much bigger Peavey VT Classic 4 x 10 amp so I could really get a feel for it and of course it blew up. It was my fault when moving it I bashed the back and smashed the fuse holder and it shorted out on the back and I had to get it fixed. I found this great place near by Professional Technical Service (ProTech) in Maryland they fixed it in 4 days and oh man this is one sweet sounding gutiar.

Ok, This is the Best Video Ever

Ok, take karate (correction--Kung Fu), cowboys, plasma guns, sexy heroines, mustaches, a unicorn, eagles and and . . . well, a kickass song.

Don't want to spoil it more--but man, oh man--brilliant!

Knights of Cydonia, by Muse

Homegrown Terrorists Target Kids Who Read

Yea Jean and her fight against stupid people a story she found on the School Library Journal was just posted on a great Blog BoingBoing.net

See Boing Boing post here

See original Journal Post here

Rise of the Silver Surfer

I thought this movie was much better than the critics the ending was a bit week but over all I enjoyed it. If you are looking for a remake of the 1967 comic you will be disappointed but Stan Lee's cameo was great.

Over all it was a great way to spend the day with my kids.

Dark Tower

Ok--I don't want to know how much it costs, really, I don't, but price be damned Sean got me the awesomest gift, a mint condition Dark Tower game. Way back in the 1980s, I played this board/electronic game as a teenager and was obsessed with it since then, my Rosebud if you will.

Basically, a way-scaled back version of D&D (playable in a little over an hour) but holding many of the charms without the creepy roleplay aspects. Loveably low-tech by today's standards, but not embarrassing to share with my tech-snob 11 & 14 year old kids.

2 years between posts, Have to work on improving that

I hope this will be a fun place for Jean and my self (Sean) to post rants and any thing we may find interesting, frustrating or completely mundane as the intro points out "guess what I just saw a duck Yes, a duck and a fly"

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Hello everybody, my name is Jean and this is my blog.