Category — Microblog Mondays

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I read an interesting thought experiment recently:

Imagine that you woke up one day to discover that you were the only person left living on Earth. With no one else around, you’d be able to go and live in any house you wanted – Buckingham Palace even. But would you want to? “You would probably find somewhere that was just comfortable and practical.” The same goes for your expensive clothes, fancy cars, or the latest technology. “When you really follow that thought through, it’s amazing how much we acquire and want only to impress other people.”

It really gave me pause because when I’ve coveted houses, it has been based on location and size, but if given the chance, I would take a Hobbit-house (in a cricket-free Shire) over a palace every single time. Peek inside Buckingham Palace if the earth was empty: sure. But I wouldn’t want to live there.

What do you think?

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Carolyn Hax’s commenters rounded out her recent answer with additional advice. A woman asks whether she needs to invite her surrogate to her baby shower. Hax answers that she doesn’t BUT asks her to check her reasoning.

But it’s a commenter that provides the idea of sitting with the decision and wondering how you’ll feel the day after, “when it’s too late to change anything.” I would have additionally asked how you’ll feel looking at pictures from the event in the future. Will you be okay explaining your reasoning to your child if they see the pictures and ask why the surrogate wasn’t there?

What do you think of the situation? Personally, I would have opted for the surrogate to attend just so I didn’t have any regrets because this one wouldn’t pass the regret test for me.

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I just got back from a trip. Hint: it’s the birthplace of modern magic. (As in, we literally went to the father of modern magic’s birthplace and grave.)

The place has one official language that is used everywhere, but also has seven local languages that are still in use in varying degrees, though some of the dialects are listed as “endangered languages.”

And the capital city has zero stop signs. Once upon a time, there was one stop sign, but that disappeared in 2014.

Any guesses? I’ll post the story tomorrow.

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When I was little, I never read the final page of the Phantom Tollbooth. I would read up until the last word on the final two-page spread, and then instead of turning the page and reading the final two paragraphs on the other side of the paper, I would skip back to the front of the book and start again, meeting Milo as if it was the first time.

I felt such a deep sense of book grief that our journey together was over.

I felt that after Brothers and Sisters ended. And House. And I’m feeling that way with Downton Abbey coming to an end for us. There are books I refuse to admit are over. I re-read and re-read The Magicians, so Quentin Coldwater is usually with me any time I have to wait.

Media grief, it’s a real thing.

What book or show are you sad is over?

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Back in college, my friends and I had a bad movie club. Everyone went to the video store and chose what they thought would be the worst movie. And then we’d watch them back-to-back all night, and vote at the end over who had done the best job choosing the worst film. This is how I saw four of the nine Children of the Corn movies.

Bad films are in the eye of the beholder. People hate my favourite film: Jeffrey. Maybe it’s not my favourite film anymore, but it was for a very long time, and it’s exactly for this reason: catharsis. I cry so hard watching that film/play. I was horrified when someone labeled it a bad film. Bad film? It is my favourite film. How can it be bad? I feel the same way about Love, Actually. I know it makes some people throw up in their mouth, but I love watching it every winter.

Spill: what is your favourite “bad” film?

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