I like John Green. Yeah, I get that TFiOS wasn't perfect, and that his math skills were a little off there. But I still like prominent nerds who don't use their fame to exclude others, but who tries to spread the love. And I like that he seems joyful about a life of the mind, and that he loves his brother — and will…
The Fault in Our Stars is partially a commentary on the structure of typical "cancer stories"—it definitely expects its readers to be familiar with the genre's tropes and recognize how they're unfair to actual disabled, seriously sick and terminally ill people.
There's that time the flight I was on tried to get above a storm.
Yeah, I definitely think the Nerdfighters had a pretty big hand in keeping it on the NYT Bestsellers list and the subsequent movie.
And here I thought John's YouTube fans were the ones responsible for making The Fault in Our Stars a huge thing. I mean...I was one of them when the book came out.
What a stupid thing to say.
Mr. Farce saw a preview for The Fault in Our Stars this morning and turned to me and said, "Is that a remake of A Walk to Remember?" pause, "I'm embarrassed I asked that. And we're fucking old."
That was my first thought too. (Off topic: I saw the touring company of "The Book of Mormon" earlier this year, and there was a full page ad in the program for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with the tagline, "The book is always better." I was amused.)
Seriously. When are college students going to start treating college like the professional environment it in no way is?
Honestly, this condom commercial works too well as Birth Control in its own right...
Because unless you are a Twilight vampire, showing up naked would be significantly less sparkly.
Who wore it best?
The real Bahn Mi aficionados will continue to buy this amazingly delicious and ludicrously inexpensive sandwich from the proper purveyors: tiny, hole-in-the-wall, family-owned, Vietnamese delis. Here in Seattle, where awareness of the best Bahn Mi shops is prized knowledge, these sandwiches have become the late night…
FAIR ADVANCE WARNING: I'm about to pull a Republican-style joke out of my ass because I am so fucking horrified that the geniuses behind Taco Bell are about to ruin another world cuisine goddamn delight:
Woohoo! I matter!
I mean, in my case I'm just joking around but I do like the study and think it's interesting. I think I'm like 50/50 with these articles. I do plenty of serious comments, but after getting my comment feed shit on last week I'm feeling lazy. :-P
1) Torchwood was a lesser show on a lesser network
Farewell, Oberyn.. but hello, Sand Snakes! Dorne shall rise again! Hail House Sunspear!!
Brent are you creating a burner account FROM WITHIN THE GAWKER OFFICES? I AM LOOKING AT YOU RIGHT NOW. OMG WHAT SMUT ARE YOU TYPING?!?!?