Spoil­ers. I did take time out of my absurd sched­ule to go see Harry Pot­ter & the Half-​​​​Blood Prince at mid­night on Wednes­day. Which reminds me how irri­tat­ing it is when I go buy a ticket for “12:00am Tues­day” for a 12:00am Wednes­day show­ing. That peo­ple and movie the­atres can­not fig­ure out the mid­night thing con­fuses and infu­ri­ates me. I know movie the­atres count mid­night show­ings as part of the busi­ness day pre­ced­ing, but one would think that in today’s glo­ri­ous age of fancy com­put­ers tick­et­ing and rev­enue soft­ware could be pro­grammed to han­dle this crap in a more sen­si­ble way. The movie. Hm. Look­ing for [ . . . ]

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