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my birthday was on saturday and we opted for a more low-key day than monica’s night of roller der-bauchery. in the morning i worked on a print server problem at tortilla press while monica got her hair cut, then we went to the cherry hill public library book sale. that place is like the freaking acropolis. monica scored a bunch of art books while i got a stack of stephen r. donaldson books (the wounded land, the one tree, the mirror of her dreams, etc.). the icing on the cake was scoring four bloom county books and two graphic novels by los hernandez bros, heartbreak soup and the original love and rockets (!). they’re not in great shape (the spine on one of the BC books totally cracked in half when i opened it) but it was like $1 per book anyway.

i really wanted to go to aunt berta’s kitchen for dinner but i had a feeling that no one else shared my enthusiasm; i’m sure that my wife and friends would much rather go to south jersey italian place #204383. so instead, i dragged everyone to the 9:30 showing of harry potter and the goblet of fire. while i’m not a huge potter fanboy (i thought the second and fifth books were crap), GoF is my favorite book in the series so far and the film did an excellent job of condensing and editing the content down to a 2.5 hour film. after first viewing, i’d put it just slightly behind prisoner of azkaban. i think it’s getting to the point where the movies are almost inaccessible for the non-reader.