Reid About It

Everywhere I went Friday night, there were people dressed like they were on their way to class at Hogwarts. Barnes & Noble, Wal-Mart, Hastings, Chachi's Bait Shop, everywhere that was going to have a copy of the new Harry Potter book had a line.

And for a change, I'm not going to make fun of somebody in this space.

Sometimes, dorkery is cool.

Ask yourself this, what's the next time we'll have any media sensation big enough to create lines at a bookstore? Are we going to release a New New Testament, maybe?

The last lines I remember were for the Lord of the Rings movie, which we're all out of, and the latest round of gaming systems, which were for financial purposes and all wound up on eBay the next afternoon. We're all out of media phenomena.

Embrace the inner dork, everybody. It's not like they're lining up for days to watch Die Hard 4.

By the way, my prediction for the final line of the book?

"And lo, Harry's spirit passed forth from the realm of hardcover releases, and into a series of ghost-written paperbacks unto eternity."