MAD magazine satire

[Catherine Keegan]

I don't know how many of you wasted hours of "good reading time" as I did 
reading Mad.  Well, this month's issue skewers Harry Plodder.  The actual 
parody is pretty good - love the names (they've always mangled the names 
well) but there are a series of cartoons in the back which are more book 
related that are really, really funny.

I must admit that read most of the satire while killing time in the mall 
but I caved in and bought it yesterday during the marathon Thanksgiving 
shopping at Safeway.

I also saw that the Disney magazine has a bunch of interviews with the main 
kid actors.  The spousal unit asked, in that slightly sarcastic voice, 
whether I was going to buy that, too.  I had a brief moment where I thought 
about it.  The Disney magazine has some really good shots of the Quidditch 
robes but managed to talk myself out of it.

Newsweek also has more HP references this week.

Gotta start baking pies for tomorrow...

Catherine in California