Here Ya Go
Look, I’ve been busy lately. I’d apologize but honestly . . . I’m pretty bored with this whole Internet thing right now. Bored . . . disgusted . . . whatever.
Anyway, I’m really behind on my reading. And I’m checking out Ami’s blog and what I’ve missed over there and I come across this. Now . . . what the hell, world?! What the fucking hell?! I swear—just when I think I can’t hate people more . . . they go and do something like this to prove me wrong.
If I was a paranoid person, I’d start to think everybody is just being stupid and cruel just to piss me off. And since I am a paranoid person, I do think that!
What the hell, Sweden?!
Traveling With Cats
Charlie is my little messed up cat. He’s the one who shakes and falls over and is kind of dumb.
Cassie is healthy and smart and a horrible, horrible little monster.
Put in carrier = 1 angry point
Trip in car = 1 angry point
Crapped in carrier, forcing the staff at the vet’s to bathe her = 5 angry points
Still not Cassie
Surprise butt sex = 5 angry points
Two shots = 3 angry points
Held down by strangers = 5 angry points
Clippers used to shave her butt = 10 angry points
This all adds up to, of course, an angry cat biting an assistant and flying around the room as she destroys everything in her path. Cue the second assistant who tries to help the first one hold her down so the vet can finish the examination.
Nope. Furball from Hell flying around the room.
I, of course, am at this point thinking about grabbing Charlie and running away. Far, far away. But I don’t and I manage to get her back into the carrier and back into the apartment, where she’s now trying to take her anger out on sweet, innocent Charlie. Bitch likes to punch him in the face.
I’m afraid to go to sleep tonight.
Twilight
You know how when you’re having a rough time of it and you watch nothing but bad TV? Or when you read nothing but bad novels and eat crappy food? Yeah, well, that’s where I’m at right now and I made the mistake of picking up the book Twilight.
Yes, yes. It’s a book for teenagers. But the key point here is that I heard it was bad. Like . . . bad fanfic bad. And oh, is that an understatement.
Let me tell you Internetz, it is full of cliches and poorly drawn characters. But that’s not even the worst part about it. No, no!
The guy is a vampire. The new girl in town falls in love with him. He finds her irresistible. Not just irresistible in a sexual sense but irresistible in a blood sucking sense. Anyway, the book is full of him being mad at her for being attractive to him. Then, when they’re spending time together, she has to be careful so she doesn’t do something to make him lose control.
People, if this isn’t a metaphor for male/female relationships in the Patriarchy, I don’t know what is. Men are uncontrollable animals. It’s a woman’s fault if a man can’t control himself around her. A woman must constantly guard against male lust. Men are angry that they want women so badly.
And if this was done in an intelligent manner, I’d say good job! If the author took the time to show how that type of thinking is harmful to men and women, I’d give her a big old thumbs up.
But no, the main character just spends a good part of the book feeling guilty for attracting this vampire. She constantly questions what she can and can’t do in his presence (in real life, that’s the way an abused woman lives). The author treats this as if it’s OK.
And then you have the most obvious problem with the book—well, besides the overall suckiness of the story and characters. The guy follows her around. He spies on her. He freaking sneaks into her house and watches her sleep.
Listen very closely to me, any young women who may be reading this and who love this book. Pay attention to what Grandma LoserGirl is going to tell you: that is not a good thing. This vampire is a stalker who does not respect this girl. This vampire is a shithead. If a man follows you around and spies on you, that’s not protective and loving behavior. It’s fucking creepy. It shows a lack of respect and it shows an objectification of the woman.
My only consolation about this crappy book is that they haven’t made a movie of it—wha?!?!?!
*sobs*
Here Ya Go
I’m no fan of the people over at TWoP but Lisa turned me on to Miss Alli’s new blog and I thought this post was interesting. You may want to avoid the comments—they’re full of special snowflake women.
If you can stomach the I’m Smarter Than You vibe that runs through the comments, then you should check out her post on homemade iced coffee. I have just discovered this joyous creation and I will feed my addiction by trying out her recipe. I’m sure I’ll screw it up but screwing up is what I do in the kitchen. It’s my thang, people. It’s my thang.
OMG
One of my favorite books ever is Alice in Wonderland. How did I not know about this movie?
Oh, that’s right. I’m a shut-in. Huh. Well, it beats having to wear pants! 
Sigh
OK, since I started playing WoW I’ve wanted one thing more than any other in the game: a skeleton horse. The Undead mount. But I have never been able to level up a Horde character past 28. No, really. I can not do it. For some reason, I find the areas around that level so boring and I just couldn’t bring myself to do it.
Well, the recent patch has lowered the level when you can get a mount from 40 to 30 so that gives me a reason to push on through those boring levels. And I did. I got a Horde character to 41 and I’ve been strutting around the apartment for weeks. Though this strutting does not equal my Alliance character hitting 70 dance—we like to call that one The Running Woman Who Accidentally Ran Into the Wall and Stubbed Her Toe—it still has managed to make my husband mildly uncomfortable.
My Horde character is an Orc and I fear that she’ll look really stupid on the skeleton horse. But since in real life I wear a beanie cap with matching pants, I do not fear looking stupid. So I took my Orc to the Undead starting are to grind for rep—in English, that means that I went to where the Undead characters start and decided to do those easy quests to gain reputation. You need a certain level of reputation with whichever group you want to buy a mount from. This is a pretty regular occurrence with higher level characters who want another mount. Apparently, this guy did not know that.
I am the one talking to NoName. Now, forgive me for my bad high school Spanish, which I didn’t do very well in, and for my poking of Teh Stupid. And while I laughed for quite some time at this player, it also made me shake my head in annoyance. I am very careful when I play WoW. I don’t pull kills away from people. If I do by accident then I apologize (yes, yes, I am lame). I am especially careful when I grind rep in newbie areas to stay away from the other characters there who need the kills to level up. Maybe I didn’t see this guy and I pulled something from him. If he had pointed that out, I’d have apologized.
But he didn’t so I teased him and laughed at him. Ahhhh, WoW. Possibly the best showcase in the world for Teh Stupid that is people.
I have to admit that not 15 minutes later, another player asked to group with me. He was friendly and polite and he got help with some of his quests so . . . there you go.
Here Ya Go
What Is Wrong With You People?!
Why are people defending this? Seriously . . . WTF? I get that it was temporary but he did something to her body without her consent. Why is that a hard concept to grasp? What the hell? Read the comments and weep yet again for humanity.
