De peso y de peseta, hey!
Yesterday was the very last Old Timers' Day Game at Yankee Stadium. Tears tears tears. I can't imagine what it would have been like to be there today, having all those Yankee greats introduced and cheered for, big pieces of baseball history parading around wearing that beautiful uniform, in the Stadium that saw it all. Bernie wasn't there, though. Neither was Mattingly. But a lot of important ones were: Yogi, Larsen, Coney, Willie, Paulie, Tino. It's hard to think that there are only 20 regular-season games left to be played in that place. I'm never going to get to go there, feel Aura and Mystique, and watch them play. :(
Oh well. We all have to move on. I can't imagine how hard it is for the players who have so many memories in that Cathedral. Anyway: happy thoughts!
It's always a great day when Moose wears knee-high socks. :D Retired 17 batters in a row, how about that. I just love this man. I'm so happy that he's pitching so well -- after loving and supporting him for all these years (hello, since Grade 7 pa), it's so wonderful to see him doing so well, getting the recognition he deserves. YEAH YOU GO, MOOSE.
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WINNER. If you are any kind of David Cook or Michael Johns fan, you have seen this already. :P I'm posting this, because I want it on my LJ for all eternity.
There really aren't any words for it, except awesome.
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What I really wanted to post about was Breaking Dawn.
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My general assessment: The whole thing reads like a really bad fanfic disguised as a newly-released hardback book from a crazy woman disguised as a best-selling author. Most of it is so mind-bogglingly stupid and trite and grammatically incorrect that I just have to laugh to stop from tearing my hair out because OMG HOW DID THIS THING EVEN GET PUBLISHED??? I really don't get it. Watch me elaborate.
First off. VAMPIRE-HUMAN BABY. ("Don't have sex, because you will get pregnant and die!") What a retcon, to suddenly have them be able to procreate. STOP PRETENDING YOU KNOW BIOLOGY, MEYER. And then... AHAHAHAHAHA JACOB IMPRINTED ON THE BABY OMG THE HILARITY OF IT ALL. Seriously. She had to have this farce of a "plot". WTF WTF WTF. Was this how Meyer planned on "uniting" Team Jacob and Team Edward? Reducing Edward to a "burning man" willing to abort the baby and HAVE JACOB IMPREGNATE HER INSTEAD (OMG Meyer actually made me hate Edward, I can't believe it) and have Jacob IMPRINT ON THEIR VAMPIRE-HUMAN BABY TO SOLVE ALL THE TRIANGLE PROBLEMS??? I just. I can't find the words to properly rant about this, so I will stop.
(PS: Bella actually wanted to name the "little nudger" Edward Jacob??? How stupid can that be?! Not that the real name was any better -- Renesmee Carlie. NESSIE, wtf.)
The last couple hundred pages were so pointless too. OMG THE VOLTURI ARE COMING WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE LET'S CALL IN ALL THE VAMPIRES IN THE WORLD -- oh wait, not really. After the long, drawn-out "face-off," the entire COUNTRY OF VOLTURI just walk away. It... makes no sense. Much like all the other "action scenes" in all the other books, really, but this one takes the cake. She tries to build up the huge battle and the dead vampires and Jacob running with the baby and the whole family saying goodbye... all for nothing. Apparently Alice just needed to go to South America, and they just needed to hold Vampire United Nations, and things will all be better? ... Okay.
The book wasn't a complete waste of time, though. SETH CLEARWATER = FAVORITE WEREWOLF SHAPE-SHIFTER EVER. He was super awesome. :D Jacob's POV was surprisingly likeable too, despite him being written like a 12-year-old. I loved his perspective on vampires, and his fights with Rosalie. Did not like all his Bella-pain, though. Yuck. And despite her being an insane creation, Renesmee is super adorable. :) I love her power, and I like thinking of the Cullens being wrapped around her fingers -- especially Emmett and Jasper. ♥
My absolute favorite part had to be Bella being a vampire. I loved the way she discovered herself and rediscovered the world. When she opened her eyes, saw Edward for the first time (the first thing she ever said after being turned was I love you! Cheesy, but awwwwww), when they hunted together, when she found out just how much Edward had held back with her. Ten years, LOL. Hate that she became the Super Newborn Vampire With All The Powers Necessary To Save The Day (why was she able to go to an urban area and into a freaking RESTAURANT less than three months after being turned? Uh, so all the stories about DANGEROUS NEWBORNS OMG and Jasper's angst in Eclipse had no point?) but whatevs. I was tired of Bella being so helpless, and it was slightly enjoyable to see her be capable for once. I don't like that she single-handedly save the day, but whatevs.
I loved loved loved Bella's moments with Edward, as usual. ♥ The ones in her POV, I mean. There were not nearly enough moments, unlike the awesomeness that was in Twilight, and the redeeming ones in the other two books. See, that's always been what I've wanted to read most about. Just them together as vampires - no baby, no Volturi smackdown, preferably with the Jacob thing settled already. Simple, right? There are so many other plotlines out there -- Meyer didn't even have to do anything in this book! Thousands of people are already going to buy it, she could have just written Edward and Bella and the Cullens playing baseball and wrestling and driving their ostentatious cars and hunting and not sleeping and maybe a little about Bella's vampire struggles and she would have gotten scot-free. I would actually have loved it if she did that. BUT NO. She had to pretend to be capable of writing with plot. Um, please stop. :(
There was barely any Emmett or Jasper or Esme. I hate that we don't know their stories. I can't believe everybody thought Alice just up and left them like that (though Edward's sadness was cute). CHARLIE, OMG WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU. Also -- why make Leah and Rosalie seem like complete psychos? Why is it that Meyer thinks that no woman is complete without having a baby? All women have to have babies or else they'll be crazy like Rosalie or uberbitter like Leah. Yeah, thanks.
I had low expectations for this book because of the downhill trend in the series, be it quality of writing, plot, Bella or Jacob's tolerability. I didn't expect it to be any good, but seriously... I've read better fanfic. Much better fanfic. And I truly hope that fandom finds ways to fix this mess. O_O I will never waste my time in reading this book again, I'll just skim to the good parts... which really aren't that many. I'm glad I only have Twilight, so I can pretend that the series ended there. I might break down and buy Midnight Sun when it comes out, we'll see.
Okay, that got really long. Whatevs, I had to get that all out. And now I'm over it. Still in love with Edward, and that's all that really mattered to me. :) If you want an ebook, click here, download Microsoft Reader, and settle in for 700+ pages of almost nothing but FAIL. And some Edward. :P
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That was exhausting. Thank God for In the Heights, always ready to cheer me up. :)
It's hotter than the islands are tonight
And Mr. Softee's trying to shut me down
But I keep scraping by the fading light
Mi 'pana, this is my town