- Me: Oh now, how are the [Twilight] books?
- Phuong Mai: SHITTY
- Me: O rly
- Phuong Mai: BANE of my motherfucking EXISTENCE
- Me: So it's really bad?
- Phuong Mai: if it were stuck in a blender with gore vidal and stephen hawking, it would still be a farce.
- Me: Why are people liking it?
- Phuong Mai: because the main girl has no personality (except that of a bitchy teen), so the girls and women and gays reading it can project themselves into the role of this girl and put themselves into the book so as to give their own lives a fantastical meaning that their regular lives completely lack.
- Me: *blink*
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For another thing—and this is the main failing of music games, and it is a significant one—they have the insidious effect of glorifying classic rock, a music with an already bloated reputation that is founded on its very bloatedness…The games reassure us that our aftercomers are our heirs. They are male-oriented tools of cultural primogeniture, applications of twenty-first-century technology with a very ancient mission.
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Casting call for the black cat in Tales of Terror (1962).
“I want my cat to be in a movie with Vincent Price and Peter Lorre,” [bonnevivante].](http://16.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpclf4THif1qzzh1lo1_500.jpg)
Casting call for the black cat in Tales of Terror (1962).
“I want my cat to be in a movie with Vincent Price and Peter Lorre,” [bonnevivante].
15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee (an illustrated guide)
A circus bear on its hind legs crosses into West Berlin with its handler through a section of the Berlin wall that was taken down at Potsdamer Platz on November 11th, 1989.
Bird and Books via FFFOUND!
Scuba Cat via FFFFOUND!
How come this isn’t on the American homepage today?
