I have come to warn you. Do not go to Betty Ford this year.

[reddragdiva]

Good Lord I rented a lot of bad lager at Betty Ford on Friday. The tango was fabulous fun and very energetic. Happy birthday to ditzy_pole. The place was somewhat empty (party Harry Potter and partly the world drowning) but nevertheless filled with beautiful women. Took photos, which will be up one day. People sitting around reading a book in a nightclub are very silly, though the paired Emilys were appallingly cute. No-one attended in costume, sadly. There were spare Potters, so I got one for us. My personal opinion is that the epilogue is a hearty "fuck off" to the slashers.

The rest of the weekend was hangover and domesticity.

I have Perl training this week, starting tomorrow, and seph_hazard has birthday drinkies on Friday evening.

Comments

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

As opposed to the rest of the book, which is feeding lines to the slashers when it's not pretending to be classic fantasy books and sci-fi TV series.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

And occasionally ripping off bits from European history....

[reddragdiva]

Yes, I must say the subtlety simply stunned me, like I was being beaten over the head with a side of dead horse.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Which bits? I confess that I don't know very much European history to be able to spot it.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

The wedding - Krum's little rant about symbols.

[unagothae.livejournal.com]

The innuendoes near killed me!

[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

One of my friends, while reading the book, was keeping her lj updated with choice phrases. Seeing the list out of any context was rather amusing.

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

Am thinking about bringing my powerbook and writing next month.

[unagothae.livejournal.com]

I thought the epiloque was total fan service. I swear I could HEAR the spooge flying all over the world.

[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

If she thinks a little thing like an epilogue is going to stop anyone... (Have not yet read the book. Not particularly excited about doing so.)

TO say nothing of the fact that there appears to be a brand new thriving community of slashers working hard BECAUSE of characters from the epilogue...

I'm waiting for the Harry/Dumbledore

[mouseworks.livejournal.com]

If a writer expropriates common cultural icons and stereotypes, she can expect to have fans seize them back and fist fuck them.

[morbidfrog.livejournal.com]

nice to see you and hear all you lovely baby stories.....it was my first visit and loved the place but definetaly too empty to have an atmosphere.