"Karen" was, when I read it as a teenager, both surprisingly modern and wacky and old-fashioned. But since then, I've blogged so much about the disability experience that I no longer fall upon every memoir like it has some answer I'm missing. I guess I'm glad the whole "bad and dirty" thing has moved to the subconscious level at least.
...because God knows you need some satisfaction in life besides shagging Captain Cardboard! And I never really liked you anyway. And you have stupid hair!
Spike ,'Selfless'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
erikaj - Jun 05, 2011 10:05:37 am PDT #15124 of 28282
Always Anti-fascist!
le nubian - Jun 05, 2011 10:31:14 am PDT #15125 of 28282
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Thanks to the whack-ass anti-vaxers, today's kids can experience the joy of horrific diseases, AND they can pass them on to their friends! Truly we live in a golden age.
NO shit. I am not particularly neutral on this point. I want to go screaming into the street. One of my student's relatives didn't vaccinate, and figures that's okay because she lives in rural Georgia.
I said, "it might be okay unless the person happens to travel anywhere. Not to mention immigration patterns that will bring all kinds of people to rural areas."
Connie Neil - Jun 05, 2011 10:33:53 am PDT #15126 of 28282
brillig
figures that's okay because she lives in rural Georgia
Sure, nothing bad ever happens in the rural South. Because if one of the virulent nasties gets loose there, the government and tea baggers will be damned sure to get the help they need right quick to those folks in the rural South.
Jesse - Jun 06, 2011 9:50:39 am PDT #15127 of 28282
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Linda Holmes, SO GOOD on the WSJ YA thing: [link]
Toddson - Jun 06, 2011 9:51:58 am PDT #15128 of 28282
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
jeepers ... I grew up before a lot of the vaccines came out - I remember getting polio booster shots (ow!) and still have a scar from an early smallpox vaccination. I had measles, and mumps, and chicken pox; the measles came close to doing some serious damage - I seem to be missing some basic immunities. The Salk vaccine came out and they lined up every kid in town and gave us sugar cubes and that was the end of that. No problems with going to the public pool in the summertime, no polio scares. Yay for science!
megan walker - Jun 06, 2011 9:54:54 am PDT #15129 of 28282
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Linda Holmes, SO GOOD on the WSJ YA thing: [link]
Really good.
And, seriously, Johnny Tremain, which I read in middle school? Shudder.
Amy - Jun 06, 2011 9:55:02 am PDT #15130 of 28282
Because books.
Thanks, Jesse! I've been trying to follow all of the responses, but there are so very many at this point.
I want to marry the writer of that piece, though, just for this:
If depression were treatable with copies of Cherry Ames, Jungle Nurse, they wouldn't make medication for it.
Jesse - Jun 06, 2011 9:56:34 am PDT #15131 of 28282
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Linda Holmes is the best. And has been since she was Miss Alli on TWOP.
sumi - Jun 06, 2011 9:57:12 am PDT #15132 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!
I remember reading things like Go Ask Alice , Rosemary's Garden , The Bell Jar when I was in the YA stage.
Amy - Jun 06, 2011 9:58:50 am PDT #15133 of 28282
Because books.
Do you mean I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, sumi?