Posts Tagged ‘Lulz’
Tuesday Silly: A door with an identity crisis
Tuesday, September 25th, 2012Twilight Brain Dump #1: Introduction and Links
Saturday, February 11th, 2012For a while, my favorite hobby was embarrassing Eric when he had friends over by telling all his friends how much I love Twilight. There are three major components to my love for it:
- I enjoyed it as a brainless romance novel.
- I enjoy snarking on it, because despite my sincere enjoyment of it, there are quite a few areas one can legitimately poke fun at
- Analyzing the messages presented in the book.
This whole post is full of spoilers, and if you have any intention to read the book, you should go do that before you read this post.
The most salient of the many criticisms I’ve read of the series is the way it idealizes abusive relationships. I would think long and hard before I’d give this to a tween or any impressionable person. It also glorifies the failure to (as cleolinda so charmingly put it) put on your big girl panties and deal with things.
Links
For the lulz
- Cleolinda Jones has snarked Twilight hard and hilarious.
- Summary of all her works with comments. All the links below are also linked from this page, but them here for easy listing.
- Her Twilight summary is not actually out to be hilarious, but this list would be incomplete without it.
- New Moon
- Eclipse
- Breaking Dawn, 1 2 3
- Midnight Sun 1 2
- Movies in 15 Minutes: Twilight
- Movies in 15 Minutes: New Moon
- As a general rule, I don’t link straight to comments, but this one is awesome enough that you really should just skip right to it.
- Movies in 15 Minutes: Eclipse
- Movies in 15 Minutes: Breaking Dawn part 1
- New Moon’s Valuable Lesson For Today’s Youth
- LiveJournal user stoney123 gave a detailed and hilarious accounting for the similarities between the books and Mormon teachings.
- Twilight (about half way down there’s a picture that made me laugh a lot, so even if you’re not interested in reading about it, I recommend going to look at the pictures.)
- New Moon
- Eclipse
- Breaking Dawn
Serious internet
- Seduced By Twilight, I lul’d about it’s suggested New Year’s Resolution for Carlisle, “I will dye my hair a more pleasing shade. This yellow blond has got to go.”
- Edward and Bella’s relationship rated against National Domestic Violence Hotline’s warning signs of abuse
- Basically, everything Racialicious has ever written about it:
How people perceive California
Sunday, February 5th, 2012After a friend posted this on Facebook, I was moved to create this graph that has been bouncing around in my head for a while:
In contrast with reality
Also, can we all realize that San Francisco is in the middle of California and stop using using “San Francisco” and “Northern California” as synonyms? There are 300 miles of California north of San Francisco.
Similar to My Little Pony
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012After hearing many good things about the latest My Little Pony incarnation, Friendship is Magic, I looked it up on Netflix. It offered some unexpected similar titles: 
Tuesday silly: “Manhood items”
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011I was looking up this book (which I have not read so cannot endorse one way or the other) when I found the following ad on Amazon:
An unfortunate computer-generated ad.
I’m not sure what “Manhood items” are, but it made me giggle.
Tuesday silly: The Bad Thing in Yosemite
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011The big store in Yosemite Valley has a sign showcasing their commitment to various food standards.
Unfortunately, it is guilty of The Bad Thing:
NO CHEMICALS
Tuesday silly: Dressing vs Stuffin’
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
I saw this in Yosemite. I’m not sure why one has the final ‘g’, but the other just has an apostrophe.
Two excerpts
Monday, July 11th, 2011I liken sociopathic charm to the animal charisma of other mammals who are predators. We watch the large cats, for example, and are fascinated with their movements, their independence and their power. But the direct gaze of a leopard, should one happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, is inescapable and tetanizing, and the fascinating charm of the predator is often the last thing prey ever experiences.
Enhancing the animal charisma of sociopaths, there is our own mild affinity for danger. Conventional wisdom has it that dangerous people are attractive, and when we are drawn to sociopaths, we tend to prove out this cliche. Sociopaths are dangerous in many ways. One of the most conspicuous is their preference for risky situations and choices, and their ability to convince others to take risks along with them…Our normal affinity for the occasional thrill can make the risk-taking sociopath seem all the more charming — at first. Initially, it can be exciting to be invited into the risky scheme, so be associated with the person who is making choices outside of our ordinary boundaries.
–The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout PhD, p 88-89
His angel’s face was only a few inches from mine. I might have — should have — flinched away from his unexpected closeness, but I was unable to move. His golden eyes mesmerized me.
“I’m the world’s best predator, aren’t I? Everything about me invites you in — my voice, my face, even my smell. As if I need any of that!…As if you could outrun me…As if you could fight me off…”
Face ashen, eyes wide, I sat like a bird locked in the eyes of a snake.
–Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, p262-264
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Magic gender
Friday, July 8th, 2011A recent Manboobz post mentioned in passing something called Magyck the Gendering (the specific page has mysteriously disappered). Fascinated, I went to google it. Although I found no such reference, Google did supply me with this interesting gem:
Technology as explained by my mother: The Internet
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010I was lamenting to my mother the difficulty in explaining technical answers to people who have limited experience with technology. She sighed sympathetically and said something along the lines of, “It’s very difficult for people who are used to dealing with a physical object to understand this thing fluttering all around us, breaking all the laws of physics.”
“Wait, where did you think the Internet is?”
She made a fluttering motion with her hands, “All around us. Like God.”
