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For some reason iTunes thinks I like Supertramp. I honestly don't recall ever hearing a Supertramp song, and a quick look through track listings reveals that I have NO IDEA who these people are, aside from some derogatory comments in movies. He's dissing Supertramp, wow he must be cool. But wait - who the HELL is Supertramp?!

Dear iTunes, please stop aggressively pushing Supertramp on me.

Other things iTunes thinks I will like:

Jay-Z (yeah ok, I'm with you)
Wintersleep (who?)
Broken Social Scene (what a great suggestion this would be if I didn't buy all their albums FROM iTunes)
Britney Spears (I don't get it)
Avril Lavigne (seriously - rewrite your crap suggestion algorithim)
Veruca Salt (hmm, yeah maybe)
Daniel Powter (lawlz - fuck you iTUnes)
2Pac (ok fine)
Heart (um, no)

4/10

Oh iTunes, don't you know that the position of crackiest suggestion page is already held by Amazon? Stop humiliating yourself like this.

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Am I the only one who thinks author interviews are meaningless? As far as I'm concerned, if it isn't in the text, it isn't in the text.

Gay Dumbledore? Ok, sure. I saw the subtext, but if it was significant enough to reveal in an interview, why didn't you reveal it IN THE BOOK? It just reads to me like she's trying to bump Deadly Hallows back up to the top of the best sellers list by generating controversy.

Next thing you know Ginny will have had a brief period of heroin addiction, wherein supporting the habit became so difficult that she had to go out and work the pole.

Whatever, Jo.

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Damn it, now I want to see a heroin-addicted-stripper!Ginny fic. Possibly in her Holywood Harpies uniform. Maybe even in the locker room for the other players.

I thought you'd fled to JF! It lives!

I'd be honestly surprised if there isn't already heroin-addicted-stripper!Ginny fic. ;-)

Nope. :) Change and I don't get along well, unless it's the silvery, jingly kind.

Hee! Now I need to keep an eye out for some.

Well, I did defriend you, which explains why I didn't notice. D'oh.

Just google Ginny/pole/Harry.

*refriends btw*

Gay Dumbledore? Ok, sure. I saw the subtext, but if it was significant enough to reveal in an interview, why didn't you reveal it IN THE BOOK?

I actually have a theory about this that I will talk about in an entry, but the really short version is: Harry didn't see it and it wasn't important to the story.

*kind of likes Avril Lavigne*

Harry didn't see it and it wasn't important to the story.

STILL. I mean, good god woman, have some confidence in your work and let it stand as is.

*kind of likes Avril Lavigne*

You are dead to me.

Hey hey, you you, I didn't like your girlfriend anyway.

Ok, so I know you posted this last year, but I just had to say, Here Here!! (wtf?! What kind of saying is here here?! Ahh well. Suffice it to say, I agree with you)

I mean, I read the book, went ok, personally, crap, didn't like half the things she did, think it was a MAJOR anti-climax, but Dumbledore, GAY?!?! Yeh, didn't really pick up on that either....even when I was looking for it!!

Anyway, shall end my rant here.

That is all. Carry on.

inorite? I definitely saw that the DD/GG relationship was significant for the story and emotionally (they got awfully close, awfully fast), but she really could have amped up the subtext without turning off anti-gay readers.

I do agree that the book was an anti-climax but I can't really bring myself to complain about too many of her choices. Mostly because I, and come on, a lot of other people, saw it coming. With all the talk about love being the most powerful kind of magic, I was starting to doubt we'd get a really kickass ending. Lo and behold we get screaming-baby-Voldemort, in King's Cross Station, and the pacificst-ish resolution.

The whole thing is weirdly Christian, even with DD, you know?