What we do in life, echoes in eternity. Except for your bank account...

...that has a finite existence. I had a small discussion with my mother a day or two ago talking about the management of our bank accounts for the business. It has been 8 months since my dad passed away and as we near closer and closer to actually closing the store, we have to settle down and close our bank accounts for our various services. Once again I am somewhat reminded of my mortality or even the mortality of all of those around me as we discussed closing the bank accounts. One that we will decide to totally empty would be easy as my mom said because it is an account that is only in my father's name.

And thus another small piece of existence of my dad is about to be erased. It's just business afterall, no need to keep a bank account open if I'm not going to pay attention to it at all. But I did start to reflect on what I have done so far, how I would be remembered or would the only trace of my existence and worth to anyone would only be that of a bank account that has been left open due to my potential family forgetting or postponing closing out the account? Would the only existence of my name in the public domain be a name on a bank card that is now useless?

Bah it won't happen, and even though I might have one night of unrestful sleep that has me contemplating this EMO bullshit, I'm right as rain the next day. I've only had these restless nights probably only once or twice a year anyways.

This just in: Dumbledore officially dead

I don't make it very clear but on the Chamber of Secrets Forums there had been high speculation as to the mortality of Dumbledore. Chamber of Secrets is basically the forum for Harry Potter discussion and fandom. Now granted they are basically PHDs in Potter-ology they aren't the fucking brightest bunch in the group. In fact I daresay that most of them, 98% are fucking morons who are the epitome of nerds and can only focus on only aspects of Harry Potter and theories with little social skills in anything else.

There are only a few people who are actually smart and fewer still who can post on subjects other than HP, which greatly saddens me because I'm imagining these are the people who love Harry Potter, people whom JKR was so fucking praised for turning on an entire youth generation to reading. And yet most of these people are about as smart as a dog who just learned how to play dead. Give them Harry Potter and sure they're experts, but try to call them out on their blatent stupidity on some aspects of even that and they just fucking crumble.

But why post this entry at all? Well to feast your eyes on this: Is Dumbledore Dead or Alive? v.10 . 10 versions of this shit. 10 versions of fan logic and stupidity that just boggles the mind and just general tradtional wriiting guidelines. Me I haven't even read one, but you have to fucking imagine, each version of the thread is about 1000-1500 posts.

Well it only took 13,000 posts, but we finally know the truth.

Scott Pilgrim Vol 3. and the Infinite Sadness

I've heard of Scott Pilgrim before I read it even though it was on a small level. The first exposure I had was with the preview in Wizard posting some pages from Vol. 3 of Mr. Pilgrim's adventures. At first I thought the series was about real life people trapped in a MMORPG and somehow they have to navigate through it, hence the save point.

I'd say this vol has some good and some bad points about it all. Bad points that seem to be more apparent than the previous versions. There was something increidibly depressing or malicous about this particular volume. Scott barely beaten his last opponent, which was attributed to trickery no less. This time the ex-boyfriend of Ramona's is even more powerful. DBZ powerful actually. Todd Ingram's hair actually stands up in typical Saiyan style when he powers up his telekinetic powers (how they are powered, I won't spoil the surprise,). That in itself paints a desperate picture. But what is the worst part is how miserable most people are in the volume. Scott's ex-girlfriend, Envy, terrorizes not only his current girlfriend, but you see the really apparent devastation of Scott's relationship with her in flashbacks. Even Knives feels the potential wrath from one of Envy's entourage, thus making a quite interesting and conflicted character become depressed and mopey as much of the visible cast.

The other bad thing that sort of off-sets the flow is the total lack of transition into some flashback sequences. However these are minor setbacks. The book is just too great for its weaknesses to overshadow it. The angst is more, the reality and unreality more, awesome video game references up the ying yay and what's best about it all is that it's always fresh and never repeatitive.

4.9/5.0 stars.