One Stray Pea

Last week Aaron and I had a discussion concerning recent trends and how out of touch he feels looking at the kids these days and seeing what they are wearing or doing. He said he’s reached that point where he just looks at kids and thinks, “what? that’s in style..wait, is that even a style?”. To which I replied, “I felt that way a long time ago, I sort of took it as a rite of passage.” That being said, there’s a trend that people my age and older are completely obsessed with and I don’t get it. Rather, I don’t get him. I don’t get this Harry Potter character. I mean, I get that he’s Harry Potter, boy wizard, but so what?

Have you ever gone to a theater the night that a Harry Potter movie opens? Seriously…remember in “The Wedding Singer,” they had table 9? I feel like I’m in theater 9. There are weirdos everywhere, it smells like body funk, people are dressed like movie characters and they’re waving wands. It’s worse than a Star Trek convention during a full moon. I have a limit to how much douche baggery I can tolerate in one day and that exceeds my monthly limit.

People go nuts over these books too, it’s crazy. They are like the Cabbage Patch Kids of the new millennium. I love Laurie Notaro and Douglas Coupland, but I wouldn’t be running to my local B&N to get their book at midnight, or even noon the day it comes out. I can wait. However, if you wait around too long, people start talking and posting on the Internet about the latest Harry adventure and then the book is ruined and people are ready to punch babies. I haven’t read JPOD yet, but I’m not going to harm small children or animals if you tell me what happens.

I’m anticipating some Harry hate crimes in the near news future.

Filed under: Book Snob, Harry Potter on July 14th, 2007