I just read the Jezebel piece, too. I want to be sick. I didn't think I could be more appalled at Twitter than after the Grammys with the Rihanna/Chris Brown stuff, but I was wrong.
What is your childhood trauma?
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Amy - Mar 26, 2012 8:00:12 am PDT #19035 of 30000
Because books.
Hil R. - Mar 26, 2012 8:00:43 am PDT #19036 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
(I mention the "from the point of view of someone with olive skin" part because I remember the character of Shirley in the last few Anne of Green Gables books, who is consistently described as "the little brown boy" and having "brown skin," but since this is within the context of a family where half the people have red hair and freckles and most of the rest are described as having black hair and ivory skin, I figure that, in that context, "brown skin" just means a darkish white kid who tans rather than burns in the sun. But when Katniss is describing herself as having olive skin, and Rue and Thresh are definitely described as darker than her, that doesn't leave much room for Rue and Thresh to just be darkish white people.)
Polter-Cow - Mar 26, 2012 8:09:37 am PDT #19037 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Personally, I completely missed that Rue and Thresh were black in the book, but I also thought Scout was a boy for a quarter of To Kill a Mockingbird and black for half of it, so I don't pick up on physical descriptions well.
sj - Mar 26, 2012 8:12:32 am PDT #19038 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
That Jezebel article makes me sick.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 26, 2012 8:13:27 am PDT #19039 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
>but I also thought Scout was a boy for a quarter of To Kill a Mockingbird and black for half of it, so I don't pick up on physical descriptions well.
Hee!
It took me a chapter to pick up that Buck in The Call of the Wild was a dog because I misread something.
sj - Mar 26, 2012 8:17:56 am PDT #19040 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I don't usually pick up on physical descriptions in books either, but the second I saw Rue on screen I was even sadder for her death. She is one of the cutest kids ever.
tommyrot - Mar 26, 2012 8:19:50 am PDT #19041 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
She is one of the cutest kids ever.
Yeah.
(Am sad now.)
Polter-Cow - Mar 26, 2012 8:20:12 am PDT #19042 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Every time she was peeking out from behind something! So adorable.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 26, 2012 8:21:22 am PDT #19043 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Wow. I am disgusted by those twitterers.
Jesse - Mar 26, 2012 8:55:39 am PDT #19044 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The teenage girls that were at my showing were scary.
Totally going back in time, but I will never forget seeing Glory in a theater full of high school kids (we went for class) and the cheering was horrible. It is not awesome when someone's head gets blown off!