blackmail and witchcraft

I'll make sure to keep this in mind for when I try to extort money out of politicians.

also, a short story

Around six or something years ago, perhaps a little longer, my mother and I were looking around Barnes and Noble, looking for a good book to buy. On one of the new releases table was a small stack of books. My mom read the first paragraph, said it was good and that she was going to buy it for me. I read the first couple of pages and thought it sucked. The book was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and after it became apparent that it was A Big Fucking Deal, I assumed that the world had absolutely no taste and that I had a decent investment in a first american edition book that was sure to go through several printing.

Why do I speak of this story? Well, apparently the pope thinks that Harry Potter is Evil, thus leading me to assume that if this loser pope hates Potter, then I must be missing something. Sure enough, I read the first 100 pages of the book last night.

Damn, I have no taste.