Category: Let's talk
Dear zone community,
On Saturday, July 21, 2007, the world as we have known it is about to change. I understand that many of you will be standing in long lines, paintball guns and broom handles at the ready. Book stores from here to Timbuktu will be filled with the good, the bad, and the fanatic.
In the subsequent days, once the final Harry Potter book has been read, fandom as we know it will simply bust the information superhighway wide open. It is a frightening concept, but as the song from Hairspray so accurately claims, 'You can't stop the beat'!
With that said, I want everyone to know that you are free to read the final hurrah of Harry Potter to your heart's content. I, Meka, have taken it upon myself to keep the zone safe from interlopers, stockbrokers, angry parents, and what-have-you. I know that the entire population of crazy zoners will be chewing their fingernails and melting in a puddle of literary goo. So I want you to know that during your absence, I will be overseeing the zone. It will be lonely due to the overzealous Potter posse, but I do understand how a book can just hook people in until they lose their minds.
And while you isolate yourselves from the rest of mankind, I will be here, tending to the zone's various needs. So, I would like for the administration and other community members to know that I will make myself available for this fine website. I know, I know. I don't expect payment of any kind, of course. It will be the one day that I actually win the anagram game and it will be glorious. I know that many of you have never considered the fact that this community could somehow become lonely. Fortunately for all of you, I have thought this through. Please, don't feel bad for one moment. I understand that visions of sugar plum Potters and haggard hallows have been dancing through your heads, stomping out all rational thought. It will just be the zone and me, sipping soda and eating bonbons.
And when the internet literally explodes with everything from potter spoilers, to Harry Potter slash, to Harry Potter action figures and Harry Potter adult peraphernalia, and God help us, even Harry Potter underwear, I will valiantly throw myself over the zone and bodily shield it from the shrapnel.
Again, I expect no payment. I do this out of the kindness of my heart.
Sincerely,
Meka, keeping the zone fires burning
LMAO, Meeka...
lol
great and thanks for thinking of the ones like myself that won't be reading hp
again thanks and awsom jon
LOL Meka. Let me know if you need any help overseeing the zone as I have no intention of reading this or any other HP crap.
The presence of HP slash worries me the most.
Glad to know that others will keep this HP-free vigil. The first four books were enough.
Well, i'll be gone at a wedding for most of the afternoon. So, reading the seventh book will be out of the question for me that day. I'm getting at midnight, so I might just pull an all-nighter reading. lol
lol meka. i'm an hp fan, but I was amused nonetheless.
Ah it will only be a day out of my life that I spend reading the book. Its only 20 hours long, not even a day. LOL
actually I hear it's already floating around the net due to some stores putting it out by mistake early, as well as someone taking camera pictures of every page and posting them somewhere. NY times reviewed it already. Just for the curious.
i will not be reading the harry potter book either.
I'm not an HP fan but good idea though. Congrats.
I didn't read the first book, so I have no intention what so ever to read this one. I'd watch the movies, but as far as the books go, forget it! besides, I don't get right in to books of any sort anyway. not to the extent of having to finish one in one sitting. No way! would I even be able to read for an hour, let alone 20, my fingers just couldn't take it, and I get bord to easily. lol
Yay Harry Potter! But, good luck to you on the zone protections!
The world will appropriately note your sacrificial act, Mekah. Personally, I have to change the air in the spare tire of the car, and I expect that'll take all day.
Lou
lol Meka I find this quite amusing! Keep up the good work!
Quite a sacrifice Meka.
Therefore, I will tell you now that Harry dies a gruesome death so the book won't be worth reading anyway.
This awesome truth was told to me last night in a dream, and my dreams are never wrong unless they are wrong, then they're wrong.
Bob
Lol Meka, brilliant, and visions of Sugarplumb Potters is quite the scariest thing I've read all day.
Constant Vigilance!
lol, brilliant...I knew I could trust someone to watch over my beloved zone while I'm gone...
Meka, your heroic sacrifice is noted and appreciated...even by Potter readers such as myself. *GRIN*
Not a Harry Potter fan!!!!!, but thanks anyway!!!