Preference Personnelle
Okay, so
Teen Read Week is coming up (theme: LOL@Your Library), and the ALA has helpfully provided programming suggestions for libraries. And they're using a wiki because, hey, wiki.
Here are their suggested movies, and I think you'd be hard pressed to find a list of films so crappy, inexplicable and ill-suited to a teenage audience. Best inclusion? By far,
Harold and Maude.
I just deleted my Friendster profile. I hadn't touched it in several years. But as I was deleting, I was reminded how much I miss some of those Friendsterites. So, if I was your Friendster friend, you should email me or give me a call or something.
No Answer
My feelings are tricky how I want to feel you at the same beat I'm missing a part of me that has been surgically removed like a tumor letting live live and live feelings that says our souls are meant to be fussing and fighting each other you pulling and I'm yanking thanking that I have a chance to not like you a little while longer the knowledge that you're not there to talk to me until I fall asleep believe in me, hold me so tight that you strangle the life out of the thought of me feeling alone scared afraid of you myself and the thought of feeling cared for
--found on a piece of notebook paper inside a library book
"A lot of critics have trouble with us. We're not like X.
I like X, but it's just so romantic to like the underworld heroes X. Admitting you like us is like admitting you like Twinkies. Twinkies taste good, but, who are you kidding?--
Jane Wiedlin
A lagniappe of cultural kitsch and B-movie claptrap