Monday

I just got back from Atlantic Station. I work out at the La Fitnesse there. Three miles today. Bleugh! (Thanks, E). Afterwards as I was walking to my car I heard what I thought was a Harry Potter movie coming from "Central Park" (little patch of grass in the Atlantic Station square). I was right! Atlantic Station has been showing all the Harry Potter's leading up to Tuesday's 12:01am release of HP 6. EEEEEE! I really want to be one of those freaks that watches at 12:01am. I did it for The Watchmen and I am a new fan to that. Been a HP fan for years.

So I sat and stretched and watched the final 30 minutes or so of HP 4. I realized as I was watching that Robert Pattinson plays Cedric Diggory, the kid who dies. Now, if you know me, you know I hate the Twilight phenomenon. I am not sure how its different from the Harry Potter phenom, it just is. I think anyone who thinks Robert Pattinson is hot is blind. Further, I think if you read Twilight you're a freak. The series is made for teenage girls. They sell the books in the young adult section for the love! Grown ass women not only love Robert Pattinson (who is fucking ugly) but they love the vampire he plays in the movie as if vampires really existed. As if Pattinson was really the vampire. As if the whole book was non-fiction. Its B I Z A R R E. I love the Harry Potter series, but I don't think any of the characters are hot and I'm not fantasizing about wizards. I just appreciate the playfulness of the story. The author's creativity. The series is a new classic. The Twilight phenom reminds me of the VC Andrews phenom back when we were younger and those books were stupid. I'll close with this - where were all these Robert Pattinson fans when he was in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire? Same dude. Just as ugly.