Regarding Comments

I have a confession to make: I never really read the comments made to my blog. That's probably obvious to most of you because, until today, I rarely (ever?) reply to them.

Yesterday, however, I made a post that asked a stupid question I really wanted an answer to, so I changed the settings of my blog. Now when people make comments to anything I post, those comments are e-mailed to me. It's kind of neat: I even received an e-mailed comment today from someone responding to an old post I made, the comments of which I'd never read through until now.

Anyway, I'm starting to think that with the imminent death of the forum this will be where I publically communicate with all of you... via my blog's comments. Does that make sense?

I was wondering, though: should I start allowing anonymous posts again? I stopped allowing them awhile back because after I posted a certain chapter of "Suburban Girl" my blog got flooded with lots of (since removed) racist posts, all made by anonymous posters. But if I'm going to use the blog's comments as a way to interact with all of you, should I start allowing anonymous posts again? I mean, a lot of people don't have a Blogger or OpenID account (both of which can post comments here) and though it's easy to do so, many people don't want to bother with creating one or the other.

So what should I do? Start allowing anonymous comments or keep it the way it is? Let me know... in the comments!!! :P

-shannon-

~watching The Watchmen, thanks to derek! oh, and happily using one of my days off from jogging (I give myself two a week) because it's fucking *nasty* outside right now!!!!~

Stupid Question

I'm going on a date on Saturday with a guy I met totally randomly at a bookstore near my house. I was killing time after a jog and I *love* how the huge store allows people to read books without buying them, so I bought a cup of iced coffee and sat down and started reading "From Hell" in the store's cafe area.

Anyway, this random stranger came up to me and said, "Oh, you like Alan Moore?"

I had no idea who Alan Moore was! But this guy was so cute and obviously flirting, so I said, "Sure do!"

We talked for nearly an hour with me neatly deflecting all questions about Moore away. Finally he asked if I wanted to "get together" on Saturday. He joked that we could talk about the "Watchmen" movie.

I've never seen it. But I lied, during our conversation, and said I had.

So now I sort of have a problem! Except for the trailers I've recently watched online, I know *nothing* about the movie. I was only reading "From Hell" in the cafe because it had been left on the table! But now this guy thinks I'm all into Alan Moore. Ugh!

Basically I either need to keep up my lies, which I'm not sure I can do, or come clean with him and admit that I know nothing about comic books/graphic novels/whatever.

After he left, btw, I went and bought the Watchmen graphic novel (it was on sale at the store!). I'm about a third of the way through, and it's pretty entertaining! That was my plan for knowing what to talk about on Saturday, though... my entire plan. The problem is, I just did some searches on the Internet, and it turns out the movie is a LOT different.

So here's my stupid question: can anyone tell me what's different from the movie versus the book? Better yet, is there anyway I can download this movie now so I can actually watch it first? It's no longer playing anywhere near me (I just checked) and the DVD doesn't come out until July.

Please don't tell me that I should just tell him the truth. I already know that I should. But it's too early in our relationship for "truth". :P

-shannon-

~really likes this guy~