5 April 2012

[fox_confessor]

Hello!

Here's a TED talk about designing book covers that I thought would be of interest to more than a few of you, but particularly kiltsandlollies as I think this guy channels her views on e-books at one point.

And here is a rather offensive "article" from oh no you didn't by Joel Stein, who I had to wiki as I had no idea why his thoughts would be considered at all relevant. Apparently he's a journalist of the Samantha Brick school of journalism. Anyway . The gist is "adults should read adult books", which I was just talking about with someone here. I think it's telling that there's a line his article that says, "I have no idea what The Hunger Games is like." EXACTLY. He has no idea. Just like people who think Harry Potter should be banned because it's encouraging the "worship" of witchcraft. What? They hadn't read the books. And where do you suppose he stands on romance novels or science fiction or cozy mysteries. Should we shun Ray Bradbury because he posited about life on Mars? Or Mark Twain because he wrote about children? I suppose if you want to be a pretentious twat then claiming to only read Pynchon or Nabokov is the way to go.

Anyway! This morning my girl cat decided that she was going to eat her brother's breakfast, thank you very much, and he could just suck it if he didn't like it. Mind, in the girl cat's five years on this earth she has never eaten wet food, which is what her brother gets because he doesn't drink water (seriously, never. I've never once seen him at a water bowl. We put extra water in his wet food to make a soup because he never drinks water and as a result suffered from crystals when he was younger.) Sophia eats kitty kibble. She's never wanted anything else. Until this morning when she became the immoveable force in front of his bowl. After moving her back to her own bowl (and having her come back), I finally let her have it and gave Jed another bowl. Once she was done, she wanted her kibble. Strange kitten.

Comments

[kiltsandlollies.livejournal.com]

That was amazing. And he makes the opinion sound a lot more poetic and gentle than I would, but yes. That was worth possibly getting busted for streaming video at work. :)

Oh, Sophia. Why so HUNGRY? And Joel Stein isn't normally that obnoxious from what I remember, hmm. Something obviously stuck in his craw, there.

[juke-box-dive.livejournal.com]

I thought you would like it :D

[msilverstar]

The world is filled with so many obnoxious people and I am filled with WTF?

Kitties though, I miss them. Someday we'll lick allergies and I'll get cuddles again.

[juke-box-dive.livejournal.com]

I'm actually allergic to cats, too. Mine don't bother me so much (sometimes, but not usually, and I just take a daily Claritin) but other cats make me immediately swell like a puffer fish :D I do love kitties though.

[pavlablack.livejournal.com]

After reading your post, I read the Joel Stein article, and a lot of the comments on it. There were a few people standing up for YA lit, but also a lot of pretentious people who think those of us who read anything but highbrow literature are seriously lacking in intelligence and culture. It reminded me of being back in grad school, in a bad, suffocating way. Anyway, I totally agree with your take on this. If you haven't read it, don't criticize it and certainly don't criticize the people who do. Wonder what Joel Stein would think about fanfiction? All I know is that some of the adult contemporary stuff I have read in the last few years made me want to give up reading altogether, but the YA and fanfiction I've read gave me a new appreeciation for reading and writing.

[juke-box-dive.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I really don't understand the "all or nothing" mentality a lot of people get about a lot of things instead of accepting that people will like different things and that's totally cool. In fact, it's fantastic, I think. I also think that sort of pretentiousness shows a lack of imagination and vision, which is precisely what they're trying to prove they don't have.