Apr. 16th, 2008

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If you said, "Huh?" after reading the title of this post, you are clearly not in the Harry Potter fandom and have no idea of the DRAMA going on in a New York courtroom this week, so feel free to skip.

I wrote about this case before. There are excellent commentaries over at [livejournal.com profile] praetorianguard's journal and [livejournal.com profile] chaeche's posts at [livejournal.com profile] fandom_lawyers.

I still can't believe that Steve did it. I considered myself friends with him back when we worked together on the HPEF Board of Directors. I just can't imagine what he was thinking. It's extremely painful to watch him destroy his relationship with someone he absolutely idolized because he was either a) inexplicably greedy and/or b) inexplicably stupid. I don't know which it is, but watching from afar, either alternative feels awful.

I hope and expect JKR to win this case. I don't know if and how Steve can pick up the pieces of his life again when it's over. (And that's not even the considering the possibility that [livejournal.com profile] praetorianguard raised that his erstwhile publisher RDR might turn around and sue him because of the irregularities in the indemnity clause in the contract.) He'd quit his job, and cut himself off by his own actions from the HP community he loved and reveled in.

Hubris indeed.
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Another great post on today's events at trial from [livejournal.com profile] praetorianguard here.

It's a trainwreck, people. It's hard to look away.
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I was down around 145 pounds when I was riding the bike, and then over the winter for a variety of reasons, it climbed up to 155.

For two weeks, I've been hovering right around 150. 150.5. 151. 151.5. 150.5. Then the last three days, I've been 150.0 on the nose. I keep climbing on the scale every morning and thinking, surely I'll drop below, luck of the draw, right?

Nope. 150.0.

And so of course, now that presumably I'm on the brink of finally dropping below that line, my inner Mongo suddenly has been irresistably seized today by

OMG WILD RAVENOUS HUNGER

GIVE ME CHOCOLATE GIVE ME DORITOS SCREW THAT GIVE ME MAMMOTH HAUNCHES DRIPPING WITH BLOOD FOR ME TO SINK MY FANGS INTO I DON'T EVEN CARE IF IT'S COOKED MUST EAT MUST EAT NOW.Somehow, I have a wee bit of doubt that I'll see below 150 tomorrow.

Perhaps it's all the frustrated cooking (and piling rejected foods into Tupperware containers) that I've been doing lately for my picky proto-vegetarian that's causing this? Either that or my usual monthly hormonal ebb and flow. Whatever. It's really annoying.

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