How Much of a Geek I Am

So brief insight into Erin-land here - I *LOVE* listening to audio books. Well not just any old audio book but specifically young adult fiction on audio book. Though I've listened to others (some Maeve Binchy, Fannie Flagg, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, a little Stephen Hawking and etc.) it really is the young adult fiction that takes the cake!

It combines two things I love doing - spacing out while driving long distances and reading... young adult fiction.

So I read the first Harry Potter book but then I re-listened to it and then listened to the rest. Like I can't just read a Harry Potter book - it HAS to be read to me by the talented Jim Dale doing all the voices and pronouncing things like the "Ridiculous" boggart spell as "Riddy-cue-lus" rather than "Re-dicu-lus". (Stephen Fry's rendition is just not the same.)

ANYWAY - so last week my dad and I checked out the fancy new Santa Monica library (our first time since it re-opened) and I celebrated the event by checking out "The Wish List" by Eoin Colfer (who writes the Artemis Fowl series... which I have not yet read). Today I got to the end (it was a short book) and after the the end credits whose voice did I hear but JIM DALE!! He was doing a little snippet PSA type of thing advertising the "Listening Library" (who also produces the Harry Potter audio books) and I got super excited!! It was like an audio book cameo and I just ADORE cameos!

Cameos are like God's gift to Erin! Very tiny moments of pure absolute humor and bliss! Ahhhhhh cameos. I still love Start Trek 6 for those 20 seconds in which a shaded Christian Slater says, "Captain, you're needed on the Bridge." Or even Topher Grace telling Brad Pitt he'd "totally phoned in that Dennis Quaid movie" in Oceans 12. Or hell... even any time you saw Hitchcock walk by in a Hitchcock movie or Gary Marshall dubbing over the bum's voice in Pretty Woman saying, "This is Sylvester Stallone's house right here!"

Anyway... just wanted to share.

Oh and special thanks to Leslie for having "The Wish List" on her Amazon wish list which caused me to put it on mine because it looked interesting and because I thought it was cool to have "The Wish List" on my "wish list" ... which then in turn caused me to pick it up at the library... leading to this small moment of joy in my day.