Don't leave a voicemail, seriously.

I don't know if this is airing internationally or just in American markets, so have the most inexplicable ad I have seen in a loooong time Star Wars Addidas ad I know, right? I guess they just covered all potential demos of "people who might wear track suits." Except Russian gangsters and old people.

Yes, clearly I am still watching the WC. I've stopped clicking on other people's WC posts, though, since my flist seems to be v heavily skewed towards Germany and Netherlands supporters. I have yet to act afool in anyone else's journal, though.

eta: Two more random links.

Toronto police jack Green Arrow's junk (see: photo).
Roger Ebert's review of Eclipse. I wish I could write like that. (There's a review of The Last Airbender on the site, too. He is not a fan.

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I'm going to have a shit ton of peas. The hideous zucchini are already coming in at the farm. Didn't I say last year, never again?

You got plans for the Canada Day or the 4th?

So through a series of unfortunate link hops just now I read a couple of lj posts endorsing the idea that tweens who express exuberant fannish adulation for Twilight are somehow kin to adult female fans in fandom.

Yeah, no.

As grown ups we can approach media and make inform decisions based on life experience and criticism by fellow grown ups. Twilight isn't some kind of neutral material like a YA novel written from the POV of a unicorn who has to follow a harrowing candy corn trail up Sugar Mountain to rescue her beffie, Badger, who has fallen into the hands of the Trickster Guild. Twilight is a deeply flawed text that is influencing young women at a time in their development when they need to learn about empowerment with support and nurturing from the adults in their lives. Part of the lure of Twilight is the groupthink and belonging model we all remember from junior high and high school where if you didn't have the right shoes you were NOTHING. Being into Twilight is part of being cool these days, my friends. These aren't the outliers, they are the ones setting the agenda. This is not geek culture.

How people are still not grasping how fucked up these books are is beyond me. This is not JUST A BOOK SERIES, it's a cultural phenomenon teaching girls every. single. thing. you might have had to unlearn once you got therapy/took Feminism 201. This sounds hyperbolic, because you are a grown ass woman who can think for yourself--do you remember being 13?

Reading the books as an adult is not the same as reading them when you're 13, so I am not being critical of my two friends who like the books. I would be critical, though, if you let your tween daughter read them without critical analysis. But I absolutely do not support the notion that tween Twifans are somehow equivalent to someone who is as of this moment a grown woman who participates in geek activity. Flawed premise completely.