Robin McKinley - 1982

I've been on a kick lately because I found a box of the books I read as a kid, so I'm just going to list all the ones I reread and loved.

ARG! I only got the last two in hardback, I actually found the first book in the series discarded on a park bench. Comic book kismet.

Vivian Vande Velde - 1992

Seriously, who under 35 has cable TV these days? I can think of ONE person and she lives with her parents. If she didn't I'm 80% sure she wouldn't have cable either.

I have this urge to spray paint "ASSHOLE" over the tailgate in big readable letters, and since I do have spraypaint for work, I don't know that I could resist the temptation were it presented to me.

That, I think, is part of the problem. There's a population of bronies who think they are the only audience who matters so they should be catered to.

Oof, that moe fandom can get really gross. The problem is that there is a contingent of the brony community that is really loud, really creepy and sort of sets itself up to be hated. The most revolting thing that happened to me was the Ditzy Doo/Derpy Hooves debacle. When Hasbro and the creators embraced and then…

I'll believe it when I see it. It's always, "we're excited to think about it" or "after we get all these other things done" or "it's hard to figure out how to execute, we just want it to be perfect," "We really want to, but..."

Nooo....no this won't work either. I also kinda like both these people. Can't they cast Lohan and Rob Lowe? I don't give a shit about either of them, and the results will be more likely to end up on rifftrax.

Every day I pray for the women my boys will love. I hope they will be drawn to real beauties, the kind of women who will leave them better people in the end.

Other things that tempt teen-aged boys into sin: girls in t-shirts, girls in sweaters, girls wearing hats, girls not wearing hats, anime, US Weekly, Sports Illustrated, issues of Wonder Woman, issues of Batman, movies about cars, tv commercials, sneakers, wrenches, apple pie, Alan Cumming, Mad Men, everything on the…

Does psychopathy count as a mental illness? Legit question, because everything I've seen about the guy leads me to believe he's a psychopath.

That's a theory people have, especially since Ana is also constantly talking about how thin she is and comparing herself to other women. Plus the only other woman who's not a blonde whore trying to get her hooks into Christian is "Mia," also described as thin. This book has a lot of super creepy if not frightening…

I was hoping they'd cut out all times someone talks about Ana not eating but then we're down to 4 minutes.

I will say one thing about this movie: it will probably join the elite ranks where people say, "the movie was far better than the book."

Probably because there's really not that much sex in the books and most of it is pretty tame. If you took out all the repetitive boring sex and the chapters of email exchanges...well the movie would only be 20 minutes long. Shoot, how ARE they going to do this?

Before I realized the bullet was text, I thought it was just a weird visual way of saying, "it's better to fill your heart valves with margarine than with butter." I'm not sure what being gay has to do with margarine. Is Big Butter in the pocket of Big Homosexual, and thus prone to causing explosive coronary…

I forgot to mention that I'm MacGyver, so maybe them taking the nail clippers was for the best. But they still let me keep the gum and paperclips, THE FOOLS!

No, at no point would I ever call her characters or settings "engaging." Perhaps "infuriating" or confounding." One of the most baffling things about these books to me is how much absolute dead space there is. No, I don't need to see their (rather creepy) email exchanges, or listen to Ana harp on what (invariably)…