Res ipsa loquitur

I'm not going to do the wishlist thing this year; I want one or two very expensive things, and aside from that, I'm at the point in my life where I really wish people would come to my house and take things away.

But I'm keeping an eye on y'all's wishlists. Don't forget to add them to Spreadthecheer.

Of course, anyone who wanted to write me some porn would be more than welcome to do so.

The Tech Goddess and I went to see "Memoirs of a Geisha" today (more because it had a conveniently-timed matinee than anything else). I wasn't terribly impressed.

( Random reactions )

resonant for some reason is imagining a new show called Stargate: Atlanta
resonant: in which they're just stuck in traffic all the time
resonant: and you can get a whole ep out of the day the air conditioner breaks.
shalott: bwahahahaha
shalott: dude
shalott: post that to lj
resonant: OK, why not.
shalott: and invite people to write drabbles for it
shalott: in the comments
shalott blithely arranges for you to be spammed with mail for my entertainment

[note. You can take them out of cars occasionally. I assume even people in Atlanta sometimes do something other than drive, such as work at the airport and stuff.]

Am I just imagining that someone wrote a Fraser/Vecchio story that made use of the similarity between "Benny" and "veni"? I could swear I'd read that story someplace. I even have it in my head that the title is "Veni."

If no one did, someone really should.

This post brought to you by my choir director, who just handed us Cherubini's "Veni Jesu."

There are a lot of HP stories where Harry gets up from the table at the Leaving Feast and blows off a chance of the party of the decade in order to go down to the dungeon, shout, "I'm not your student any more," and fling himself at Snape.

Sometimes Snape is expecting this, and sometimes he's as shocked as Warner Bros.' lawyers. Sometimes he accepts Harry's offer, and sometimes he nobly sends him away to get old enough to be interesting gain Useful Experience and Perspective so that he can Make An Informed Relationship Decision.

What I want to know is, why is it always Harry who makes the first move?

Because, really, can't you see it the other way around? After the Leaving Feast, Snape comes up to the Gryffindor common room and sends everybody scattering, and he talks for a while to Harry in private and then sweeps away, and the rest of the Gryfs come cautiously back in:

"What'd Snape want, Harry?"

"Probably wanted one last chance to assign him a detention."

"Er, Harry? I really think it's not terribly healthy to be casting Scouring Charms at your lips ..."

And then Harry goes off into the world to get old enough to be interesting gain Useful Experience and Perspective and Enough Distance To Become Intrigued.

But meanwhile, Snape's despairing of Harry's ever changing his mind, since Harry didn't say "No thank you" or "I'm flattered, but" or "It's not you, it's me" -- he said "Wha -- aaaaagh -- no, no, no, make it stop, make it stop --, god, the nightmares, where's my wand ..."

That's a story I would really like to read.