Category — Microblog Mondays

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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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I love reading about other religions. The BBC recently had a piece about the fastest growing religion in Iceland, a combination of Norse mythology and ecology guiding the practice:

The blót had been organised by the Ásatrú Association of Iceland, a pagan faith group that is currently one of the country’s fastest growing religions, having almost quadrupled its membership in a decade, albeit from a low base of 1,275 people in 2009 to 4,473 in 2018.

It sounds like a wonderful group:

Although the Ásatrú Association has no doctrine as such, it does promote virtuous behaviour. “It’s about being honest, upright and tolerant,” Hilmarsson said. “Respect for nature is also important. You have to make sure you live in harmony with nature.”

I mostly like the idea of new ideas and ways of navigating the world popping up. That religion or art or literature or [name your favourite way to process the world] is ever-changing.

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I am aware that there are many people who do not reread books or rewatch television shows or movies. I am not one of those people. I love rereading books, and research backs up my assertion that rereading (or rewatching) is just as enjoyable as the first time. So there.

The question, of course, is how do you decide? There are some books that I know as I’m reading it (or shows that I know as I’m watching them) that I’m going to want to read again and again, even before I know the ending. And others that I enjoy so much the first time around, but I also know that I probably won’t seek them out a second time.

I think it comes down to characters I want to spend time with. As in, if they were real people, I would want to hang out with them.

What about you?

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