Twilight Wars Continued.

Hello, my friends. Ok, people need to comment and vote on the poll. Seriously people...? You're going to discourage the awesome rants from flowing...

I have suffered a return volley in the Twilight War. My opponent's points can be seen here: http://pinkhairblog.blogspot.com/

One of her points is that Twilight encourages reading. I must acknowledge her point. On the other hand, if we encourage the reading stupidity and crap, we only fill heads with stupidity and crap. How does that help us? There is plenty of stupidity and crap posing as literature, we don't need to encourage people who are not that bright to be dumber. That might be half the problem with the world.

Her second point concerns Twilight's depiction of relationships. I do not agree. Possibly Edward acts in a respectful, self-sacrificial, and committed way, but Bella is basically a whiny teenager. A whiny teenager is supposed to grow up before she is allowed to have the man of her dreams. If she doesn't the man of her dreams doesn't want her. That's part of why I wish that Edward had pulled a Rhett. "Frankly, my dear, YOU ARE A CLUMSY, WHINY PIECE OF CRAP AND I WAS JUST MESSING WITH YOU SO I COULD EMOTIONALLY CRUSH YOU BEFORE I EAT YOU AND I don't give a damn."

Finally, my opponent thinks that we, as a community, should respect Ms (Mrs? I assume it's Ms if she's writing romance, but it's not a requirement) Meyer for creating a huge fan base as a beginning novelist. We could do that... or we could cry for the poor souls of the world. If something as badly written as the Twilight saga can create a fan base this crazy and stupid, its really easy to see why horrible things happen. Obama gets elected, stupid immigration laws get passed, and even the TODAY show continues to air despite its dedication to making people stupider every morning. And its all made possible by the reducing of quality reading material and education. Thank you, Stephenie Meyer, for being a symbol of all that is wrong with this country and the world.

On a less depressing, but similar, note: Have you seen the movie Superbad? It is terrifying to me that a movie that was so utterly dirty and plain irreverent was so freakin` hilarious. Don't get me wrong, irreverent and dirty humor are the kinds of things I like in a movie, but Superbad doesn't just throw it out there. They load it into a Gatling machine gun and rapid fire it at you for a good hour/ hour and a half, take a minute to resolve the emotional denouement and to reload, then open fire again until the end. I literally had to stop and rewind about 10 minutes because I was still processing the grossness and oddness of the 38th joke (estimated; it was pretty bad) when they hit the 97th. Craziness. Also, those cops would so be fired...

Perhaps this is what's wrong with America even above Twilight.... Nah. That sounds like quitter talk and we all know I'm winning the war. Bwahahaha!

I have good news! My friend Nathaniel has a special lady friend! Whoohoo! Ha! I hope he reads this and blushes. Anyway, now that that's out of the way, I'm going to catch a little sleep before church. `Night!