Silver Metal Lover / Ship / Z / Spadini

[Rita Winston]

Meow! I apologize to all the people whose birthdays I missed!

Tabouli wrote:

> As for American fantasy classics, I still
> dream that one day Tanith Lee will give
> permission for someone to film my teenage
> fantasy favorite: The Silver Metal Lover
> (the title of which still gives me a twinge
> of embarrassment).  Any author who can write
> a book about a 16 year old girl falling in
> love with a robot and make it not only 
> convincing but touching and disturbing has
> definite talent.  

My friend Lee (the ABD in Eng Lit) loves SILVER METAL LOVER because IIRC
it is poetic and tragic. Me, I *hate* it because it is exactly teen-age
girl wish fulfillment fantasy: As soon as she stops taking the hormones,
she eats as much as she wants and is beautifully slender. As soon as she
stops the hair dye, her hair is perfectly behaved smooth platinum
blonde. As soon as her lover suggests that she sing, she has a beautiful
and emotionally touching sweet singing voice. Her lover is so
multi-talented as to take care of her perfectly, such as make a living,
fix the plumbing, hide from law enforcement, do the coooking, paint
beautiful murals all over the bathroom while she sleeps -- sure, he's a
robot who doesn't need sleep and all those skills were built in, but
still being waited on hand and foot is a popular fantasy. AND he loves
her absolutely, but for no particular reason: not for her looks,
talents, intelligence, sense of humor, courage, merely because her heart
is pure. 

All those above points, I don't doubt that anyone who used to be a
teen-age girl will recognize them. The piece of teen-age girl wish
fulfillment fantasy that most riles me up about SILVER METAL LOVER is
something that most women I know claim not to know about. It is: that
her loathsome mother who is so cruel to her REALLY IS loathsome and
REALLY is the cause of all her problems, AND she gets to go on
world-wide radio and persuade the whole world how loathsome her mother
is. As if anyone would believe her!!

Ebony wrote:

> *grins*  Harry toothpaste--Hermione toothbrush.
>  *winks at Penny* It's like the pillowcases!  

A DOMESTICATIONS catalog arrived today ... that's a catalog that sells a
great deal of bedding, mostly decorative, and bedroom decor, and some
towels and table settings... and I always look through it immediately,
feeling much the same about browsing pictures of bedding and bedrooms
with oodles of ruffles and lace and pretty floral prints as some men
feel about browsing the Victoria's Secret catalog... but when past the
ruffles and lace, I was astonished to turn a page onto a Harry comforter
& sheets set. Named 'Harry Potter's Enchanted Flight', it depicts Harry
in red robe, broomstick, Snitch, and Hedwig. I was deeply shocked by the
absence of any of the other characters. DOMESTICATIONS seemed to me to
agree with Simon's Hy/Hw ship. I went to their web site in hope of a
link to show this product, but on the web site they show a different
one, Harry Potter Cloak of Dreams Bedding, which does appear to have
Hermione on one pillowcase ... and Hogwarts Castle on the other...

Amy Z wrote:

> David Frankis may find that project uninteresting,
> but some of us who  have suffered a lifetime of
> alphabeticism (discrimination against those at
> the end of the alphabet) perceive it very differently.
> Did Pfunzl ever create an alphabet that began at Z?

When I sent out the list for the Halloween Owl Exchange, I wrote:
"Please send a card/owl to each person if you can afford the Time,
Interest, Money, and Effort. If not, please start with the person whose
name is under yours and go on until you run out of T.I.M.E. That's
because, as a purrrson whose name begins with W, I disapprove on
principle of always starting at the beginning of the alphabet and going
on until all the goodies are used up. HAPPY H-OWL-OWEEN!" (BTW, I did my
cards last night, to be mailed today. I got covered with white glue and
used up ALL my $0.34 stamps, but woke up this morning convinced that I
had fogotten to WRITE in some of them....)

David Frankis wrote:

> Ernesto Spadini was born in Calabria in the
> 1820s and eventually found employment in the
> censor's office in the Kingdom of Two Sicilies'
> post office. (snip) His romantic early life 
> (> with brigands in the Calabrian hills) and 
> his obscure and ambiguous relationship with
> Signora Elena Christoffides (an opera singer
> of Arberresh descent)

Reading your narrative gave me a strong urge to stick these people into
a fanfic.
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Questions for JKR:
 1) What is a warlock in the Potterverse? Warrior-wizard? M.P.-wizard?
 2) Why aren't thunderbirds in FANTASTIC BEASTS?
 3) Are Boggarts Beings or Spirits, as they aren't in FB? 
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