Fandom...

I am a fan of many things. I am a huge fan of only a few. LOST is one those. I have mentioned it many times before in previous blogs, so it may be old news. My Wednesdays revolve around the 60 minutes that fall between 9 and 10 pm. The guys on my floor know that there are a group of us that when LOST comes on, nothing gets in the of us watching it. There have been times when a yelling match will occur causing us to miss the first 5 minutes. One could say that I am a little obsessed with LOST. But I am not nearly as obsessed as the people in Trekkies, and people that follow Hairy Potter or Twilight. I hate to admit this, but when the latest Twilight book was released I was at the midnight release party at Borders. Not because I was buying the book, but because a friend was meeting his girlfriend there because she was buying it. The whole hour I was in there, I was making fun of everybody. They probably wanted to kill me, but I think they had it coming, they dressed up like characters from a book. Strange, I know. This is when fandom crosses that line into the obsessed categorie. My liking of LOST is normal. But when people go to book release parties and have their picture taken with a cardboard cutout of the main "stud" character of the book, that is obsessed.