#35 Stacey and the Mystery of Stonybrook Part 2!

[lippian]

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[shatisarockgod]

I think something happened to your coding. Example:

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[lippian]

I see it, but I can't fix it. But I hit 'edit,' changed nothing, and hit 'save entry' and now I can't see it anymore.

[lippian]

Hold on, now I've lost an enormous chunk of it. I think this happened because I copied and pasted bits from a word doc, but I don't see why that would be... mods? Did I do something wrong? I'll just hit edit and try to rewrite the part that disappeared in the meanwhile...

[mimithemuse]

Bad coding aside, I am laughing SO HARD right now! You turned one of the worst books into something very enjoyable. Bravo! :D

Can I have a rant moment here? I'm 1/4 Native American...so I kinda take offense that everyone thinks where my ancestor buried their dead is haunted. I mean, WTF man? I realize they lost their land, so concieveably the spirits of the early natives could be upset about that, but why is it always Native American? Next time, I want to see a pilgrim burial ground or something like that. I mean, all types of people were buried in places that are now used for houses, etc. /end rant.

And Stacey reminds me so much of a kid who begs for a pet, then bitches about the upkeep until mommy takes care of it for them. Does anyone else get that vibe? If she didn't want to have to entertain an eight year old for a week, she shouldn't have taken the responsbility. Thank God Charlotte doesn't need to be let out in the backyard for bathroom breaks or no one in the McGill house would be able to walk barefoot!

[wavvedout]

Yes, I get this vibe too. This may also be why she goes thru so many boyfriends- she wants something until she gets it.

[road_baby]

Oh my God. That's perfect!

[kakeochi_umai]

Next there's a sequence where Kristy has to keep getting up to get the kids water [when they've just gone to bed]
I guess her diagram of the divestive system didn't include the bladder.

Stacey is annoyed. It's only medicine.
Shut up, Stacey, I don't enjoy taking medicine that tastes like death and the tears of small children even as an adult. Being able to swallow pills is definitely on my list of good things about not being a kid.

[darth_firefly]

Kristy reads the history of "Olde Stonybrooke," including the winter of '88 which sounds like fun to her: they could walk on the snow out of their second-story windows!

Speaking of books and that winter... +hauls herself up onto her desk and grabs her copy of The 100 Greatest Disasters of All Time+ Let's see... Here it is, the New York City Blizzard, March 12-13, 1888 -

Kristy... 800 people DIED in that winter storm. But I guess Watson's super special old book didn't tell you that.

Is it me, or does Stacey's pink outfit sound like something Minnie Mouse wears on laundry day?

[author_by_night]

that was before finding out that Baum was some kind of white supremacist who wanted to massacre all Native Americans.

Wait, he was? I always thought his books were anti-white supremacy, or at least anti government idiocy...

[lippian]

I don't have the reference in front of me, but apparently he wrote in to a newspaper with a solution to the "Indian Problem," which was that the army should systematically exterminate the Native Americans all at once instead of forcibly integrating them. It could have been parody like A Modest Proposal and I just missed the point, but I don't think is.

[wavvedout]

Is it just me or is it kind of weird that the kids are all concerned over a Native American burial ground in the same book that references Baum? Ick.

Also-

pancakes made by Maureen, who apparently wandered back to her own home sometime last night

Im totally seeing Maureen doing the Walk of Shame.

This book sounds like someone watched Poltergiest and decided to make a watered down kid verison. Meaning they took out anything that would constitute being scary or mysterious. They also seemed to feel they needed to take out anything entertaining, as well.

[alula_auburn]

No, pretty definitely not parody. His descendents actually offered a formal apology not that many years ago.

Baum was. . .kind of weird. Also, imo, the Oz books just aren't as well-written as the European fantasy he was "improving" on.