All roads lead to Twilight
Those of you who know me in real life know that I love all things Twilight, and thanks to Gretchen Rubin's love of the same, I am not embarrassed to confess it. If a best-selling author who also clerked for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor can admit without shame to getting lost in Stephanie Meyer's (excellent) teenage melodrama, then clearly there is nothing shameful about it - right?
Which brings me to an (NSFW!! Contains explicit language and imagery!!) excellent piece of Twilight-related writing that I never would have found but for Gretchen Rubin's blog, the Happiness Project. This review of the film adaptation of "Twilight: Eclipse" is light and hilarious, but insightful and dead-on at the same time. It is most deft when it cites to cultural references that you don't even remember you once knew, like Smith Jerrod from Sex & the City. Remember when Smith waited for Samantha in the lobby of the hotel, just to make sure she got home okay? Of course you do, now, and since Natasha Vargas-Cooper and Mary HK Choi point it out, Edward waiting for Bella while she canoodled with Jacob in the tent is totally Smith Jerrod part 2. But it's not a connection I ever would have made myself.
I forwarded this review to my friend Christin, who wrote back not only that she thought it was as funny as I did, but that Mary HK Choi is her cousin! So, at Christin's wedding earlier this year, I was able to meet Mary and tell her what a fan I am of her writing. Here we are:
Which brings me to an (NSFW!! Contains explicit language and imagery!!) excellent piece of Twilight-related writing that I never would have found but for Gretchen Rubin's blog, the Happiness Project. This review of the film adaptation of "Twilight: Eclipse" is light and hilarious, but insightful and dead-on at the same time. It is most deft when it cites to cultural references that you don't even remember you once knew, like Smith Jerrod from Sex & the City. Remember when Smith waited for Samantha in the lobby of the hotel, just to make sure she got home okay? Of course you do, now, and since Natasha Vargas-Cooper and Mary HK Choi point it out, Edward waiting for Bella while she canoodled with Jacob in the tent is totally Smith Jerrod part 2. But it's not a connection I ever would have made myself.
I forwarded this review to my friend Christin, who wrote back not only that she thought it was as funny as I did, but that Mary HK Choi is her cousin! So, at Christin's wedding earlier this year, I was able to meet Mary and tell her what a fan I am of her writing. Here we are:
Mary's writing is also featured regularly in the New York Times on-line, and in the on-line magazine the Hairpin. The Hairpin is updated several times a day, and the writing is similar in tone to the review of Twilight: Eclipse I linked to above, but it covers a variety of subjects that, if you are like me, you will find utterly fascinating.
LOVE this hat!! The colors are striking together. I've got to say, this is refreshing to see a pattern I've never seen before. (which I like) Too many patterns look like I've seen them before. Thanks for the pattern.
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