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Today is a day when I share such things. It began with an extremely boring and unsubtle dream. I was at a Quest game, except that, because we were with Mac, I couldn't actually really participate, so I did a tiny bit of NPCing and mostly just sat there and watched other people LARP. To give context here, I frequently dream of Quest as an apparent metaphor for my work life/writing projects. For instance, I had a dream several months ago in which I was running a game, but half the people were sitting around being lazy and unhelpful, and a bunch of other folks were trying to be helpful but ket coming up with totally extraneous and unworkable ideas. (In retrospect, I think that all the people involved were different facets of my own brain.) So yes, subconscious, I know just how anxious you are about being functionally unemployed, and feeling out-of-it and so forth, but really? Massively boring dream.

The second surprisingly boring thing of the day is this original Princess Bride Trailer, which was linked to by people commenting on why Stardust seems to be tanking in the theaters, and blaming it partially on its preview. This trailer for PB explains entirely why that movie flopped in the theaters, pretty much. It's horrific. Also, DO NOT watch it if you haven't seen the PB, as it takes spoilers to a new level. It's worth watching to marvel at the incompetence.

Finally, more in the unsubtle category, this lengthy interview with J. K. Rowling explains a variety of the issues that many of us had with Deathly Hallows. ( However, I still don't agree with many of her choices. (Spoilers) )