I'm pretty sure I just used the same subject line joke in two consecutive entries, but this fall has sucked hardcore, so I'm just gonna roll with it.

It's the Return of the Revenge of Sparklerita Night, featuring The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 2: Electric Boogaloo, the colon-filled finale to one of the sparkliest chapters in our nation's ( Read more... )

This is not exactly how I'd LIKE to return from a hiatus, but heavens forbid I forget Sparklerita Night! The History of Twilight the Fourth, Part One is: 20% NOT ENOUGH SHIRTLESS WEREWOLVES; 20% TOO MUCH SHIRTLESS PASTY VAMPIRE ABS; 20% AUGH GOOD GOD WHY DOES BELLA LOOK LIKE A PERUVIAN MUMMY; 10% OM NOM NOM PILLOWS OM NOM NOM; 10% he fell in love ( Read more... )

Sparklerita Night returns! Twilight 3: Twihard with a Vengeance is: 35% the werewolves still haven't met a shirtless scene they didn't like, hurrah; 25% no amount of fight scenes can improve this movie; 20% especially not since the special effects may be qualitatively better, but exploding marble vampires will never not look stupid; 10% also the ( Read more... )

Saw Iron Man 2 last night! ( I liked it! )

"It is clear to the Nut that magicism has been spreading in Upper Derby. It is quite a common occurrence to see graffiti against witches in the stalls of the girl's bathroom, and it has become even more common to throw garlic at the vampire children in the Kindergarten Center. This incident occurred so frequently to one vampire child, that her ( Read more... )

After once again availing ourselves to giant margaritas at Chili's, Mal and I saw Twilight 2: Cruise Control. This movie was: 50% studly men running around shirtless, 30% furious blinking, and 15% greatly improved special effects, except for the 5% sparkles, which still look stupid.

Oh, and there was something about werewolves and vampires, too.

So, Big Grandmother strikes again!


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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

OH SNAP, WUTHERING HEIGHTS.

Poll time: which relationship is MORE unhealthy and codependent, Heathcliff/Cathy or Bella/Edward?

Either Rob Pattinson has just sarcasmed like he's never sarcasmed before, or he's gone totally off the deep end: Well, I guess Twilight could totally bring it for Best Sound Editing...

In other news, I have a cold. Blech. On the plus side, I also have paid sick days! Woohoo.

So, during the copious free time that accounts for much of my working day, I stumbled across the following articles on the reading habits of young wimmins, which set me a-ponderin' (and apparently turned me into a grizzled old prospector).

( An explanation of the Twilight phenomenon, complete with gender faily discussion of the reading habits of teenage girls )