Full Screen and Fiction Literature

In a moment of weakness I went to Best Buy and purchased Clerks II.  And in a moment of great stupidity I purchased the “Full Screen” version.  When do we get to make the switch?  Why doesn’t full screen fill up my screen?  More and more people are getting wide screen TVs and at some point the nomenclature “Full Screen” will have to denote the wide screen format and those sad suckers left with the 4:3 TVs will have to live with the letterboxing.  The 4:3 format for movies on VHS or DVD was the worst idea ever, the industry should have done letterboxing and only letterboxing from the very beginning.  I’m watching my poorly picked out DVD right now and I’m getting a little sick of the pan-and-scan and I find it irritating when the actors are cropped a little too much.  Ish.

I’ve been reading a bunch of essays for school and I’m loving it.  The book is the “Best Required Essays 2006″.  Last year I read the “Best Required Non-Required Reading 2005″ and I found it very tedious and I started thinking that all the stuff that I actually enjoy reading, Wikipedia, blogs, and graphic novels.  Two of the three of those are entirely non-fiction pieces of literature, which leads me to believe that I don’t like reading fiction.  And then I realized that all of the fiction books that I have read in the past five years have been books on tape.

So there you have it, down with “Wide Screen” in favor of calling it “Full Screen” like it should be and I hate reading fiction.

-Josh