Ex's

[Brooks A. Rowlett]

No: HPFGUIDX 1953

> Partially because, in my experience, there is no jerk in 
> the world as jerky as the jerk you used to be in love with; also 
> because ex-spouse bashing is a lot more socially acceptable (and 
> understandable) than bashing of a random person who you just dont 
> like.

Have to say I'm the exception, almost unnaturally so.  My ex and i
talked on phone at least weekly after she moved to a different state, so
that I could stay in touch with my son (who spent summers with me - we
thought the schools were better in Virginia than Indiana, else he might
have stayed with me during school year) - and lately, our discussion,
when not about Alan, have been about Harry Potter, and book banning, and
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and X-Men, and Unitarianism, and who's read
what lately, and her dog Krypto's death (but her cat Streaky is still
going strong:  toothless, deaf, and sedentary for most part, she still
put the new dog in its place within two days!)  

We get along so well I once dreamed that we appeared on a Jerry
Springer-like show and everybody thought we were fakes, because no one
could believe we got on so well.


My son's opinion of HP is kind of interesting, in that he is such a
voracious F&SF reader that he liked them just fine, but they don't stand
out head and shoulders above a lot of his other recent reading, to him. 
He was complaining that the one William Gibson book his Science Fiction
Literature teacher assigned was one *without* slam-bang action, when
Gibson was such a good action writer.  And he agreed with me that _On
the Beach_ was rather silly.

-Brooks
You might be a candidate for Jerry Springer if......you let your 12 year
old daughter smoke at the dinner table in front of her kids.