Dumbledore is...WHAT?

Now, I love a gay character, and I am a gay rights activist, and yes, Dumbledore always did dress a little too well for a straight wizard...but come on, JK, can't you let us interpret the text of the Harry Potter books for ourselves??

Ever since she finished Deathly Hallows, she just can't shut her mouth. And every word that comes out of her mouth makes the books narrower and narrower and less and less interpretable. Books mean something different to each person, and she's not allowing her readers to see things for themselves. She's forcing us to see the characters EXACTLY the way she does...and that's incredibly limiting. Not only that, but I resent her lack of courage in actually making Dumbledore gay. If she had some guts, she would have made him openly gay in the books, instead of waiting until she'd sold all her books and then backpedaling. I am really quickly losing respect for her.

Ok, I am done with my Harry Potter rant for today. I am just bummed out about JK Rowling's verbal diarrhea.

In other news, D and I got new cell phones yesterday! This is very exciting, because we have never had new cell phones. We've had the same ones for over 4 years!! Now, what was funny, was the slimey cell phone salesman (who D commented is the 21st century's used car salesman), trying to talk us into more expensive, fancy phones. He kept making comments like, "I bet you're into gadgets, a smart young man like you," and "Now, Bluetooth is really necessary in this fast-paced world."

And there we are, D in his 10 year old Hendrix shirt from Target and me in my patched jeans and my handtooled purse from the Rennaissance Festival, and we're just smiling. No, we don't like gadgets. We don't even know what Bluetooth is. We just want phones. That call people. Nothing more.

We did finally succeed in getting the free phones that we went there to get, but that guy worked soooo hard to sell us $200 phones that had i-tunes and cameras and probably transformed into a BMW at the touch of a button! The whole experience was hilarious, and just made me and D realize how much we don't care about the things so many people care about. I am happy to have a new phone, don't think I'm that non-materialistic, but all it does is call people. (And it *does* have a camera, because apparently you can't get a phone without one anymore.)

Gotta take S to school. Post tomorrow. : )