Christmas Cards!

Normally I send out Generic Holiday Cards(tm), but this year I found some really cute Christmas cards. Sorry to those of you who do something different. But they're cute!

So, if you'd like a card, leave your address. Comments are screened! Don't assume I have it, I'm a giant flake lately--I think I've actually missed the window on a couple of people's card posts just through flakiness. D:

Lightbulb Goes On

I have had an epiphany. Others may have had this epiphany before me, but I haven't seen it discussed.

Twilight is not the next Harry Potter. It's the next Titanic.

I'm not saying it's going to win Oscars or break box office records (God I hope not), and it's certainly not going to be a stunning piece of special effects or cinematography, but, this phenomenon, girls and women eating up this bad love story with a spoon and the hysteria feeding on itself and feeding on itself and building and building--it's the same damn thing. I didn't see it sooner because with Titanic, it just sort of hit and then it was happening and the next thing we knew girls were writing in to Seventeen to one-up each other, "Oh yeah, well, I've seen it thirty-six times!" With Twilight the books have been out long enough for a lot of people to realize this is a bad love story, long enough for this sort of slow build to the frenzy we saw at Comic Con, that we're seeing on the mall tour.

And ten years from now, same as with Titanic, these girls are going to look back on this episode in their lives and go, "Oh, God, what was I thinking, that story was horrible!" And then at least one of them will have to get an apple tattoo lasered off her neck.

In other news, I saw Quantum of Solace, and Daniel Craig is still hot like burning, so two thumbs way up. Apparently a lot of people are having trouble following what happened. I didn't have that problem. I did have a problem with motion sickness during some of the chase sequences, though. And 'there are chase sequences' is not a spoiler, in advance.