It's officially my book birthday again! Weee! The Fling hits shelves nation/internet wide today. Here are the other titles Bold Strokes Books is putting out today, all available in print and ebook. I've highlighted the titles I've read so far and both were excellent. :)
This video has nothing to do with anything, but I love this song. Usher's new "jam" Climax.
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Fellow author Rachel Spangler does occassional blog posts where she shares the search terms that have brought people to her site. I usually share mine with her, but now I'll share them with you. Here are the results for the last 30 days.
rebekah weatherspoon - this makes complete sense
rapunzel boobs - posted one picture from Tangled and her boobs were not out.
oksana - i wonder if people were searching for pornstars or figure skaters of the same name
annie adderall - were they looking for a girl who deals Rx's named Annie
butters love - again one picture of Butters and here we are.
cute innocent brunette white guys - i love that someone is looking for this in general, but they didn't find it here
el mac - i worship the man and he's hyperlinked on my Extra's page so this makes sense.
looking for my childhood bedtime story book from 50's or 60's big red book - o_O
my little pony friendship is magic rainbow - we all know what this is about.
rebekah weatherspoon author - another no brainer.
A few months ago I had several searches for boob related topics. these seem a little boring.
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And for no reason at all, here is my take on HBO's new show, Girls. I posted this on my tumblr yesterday, but I'm sharing it here to keep from driving people unnecessarily toward tons of nude photos.
so here are my thoughts on #GIRLS AT THIS VERY MOMENT, as I am sure they will evolve.
i’ll get this out of the way first (since there's been a lot of chatter about in the twittersphere). i NEVER expected there to be any
sort of diversity on this show. ever. look at the poster. so i’m not
upset that there was one WOC who scored one line and will never be seen
again since Hannah no longer works with her. And i’m not upset that in
NYC there was one black walking down the street. i am not upset by this
because it is EXACTLY what i expected. my bar was set real low on the
diversity scale.
as with the New Girl, and Don’t Trust The B in APT 23 and even 30
Rock, we are seeing a continuation of a new female figure on our
televisions. The quirky brunette is the new dumb blond.
her large breasts and wide eyes have been replaced by glasses and one
liners. that in mind, GIRLS is not some new feminist take on the 20
something. these girls are not kicking ass and taking names. they are
barely taking care of themselves. they are not even respecting
themselves. seriously. all 4 of them are taking it pretty hard to the
face.
characters: i know nothing of Lena Dunham, but as with many in
Apatow’s camp i am sure parts of this are autobiographical. PARTS as
Dunham is 25 with a show on HBO, soooo…
Hannah is interesting. she’s of average intelligence. she’s of
average wit. And its stops there. she doesn’t do anything entirely
smart. the whole episode people walk all over her as she says witty
things and when her parents cut her off she throws a temper tantrum. as
someone who has received financial assistance from my parents at this
point in my life, okay i get it. but my dad helped me keep my car from
getting repo’d. he wasn’t supporting my ENTIRE life as Hannah’s parents
are. she’s been working an internship for a good clip.
Hannah’s friends: i don’t know any of their names. they all blended together.
roommate/most attractive girl is in a relationship with the most
attractive guy on the show, who she is not attracted to but refuses to
break up with him because of reasons? mostly she doesnt want him to go
all Lloyd Dobler on her, but that seems to be the only reason.
british friend is british. so far that’s all i got. she’s pregnant,
but the way these girls are and the way they are living, i dont see them
binding together to raise a baby. there might be a trip to the clinic
in her future
over-zealous friend has terrible lines written for her. we all know
that hyper, wants to be liked girl, but some of this chick’s dialogue
didn’t make sense. like no one would actually say some of the things she
says to another person.
the fuck buddy-Adam. he treats Hannah like crap and she lets him.
parts of this i get and parts i don’t, mostly because it FEELS like a
plot device. we’ll see how she handles him.
hannah’s parents. there’s not much to say here. they cut her off and
expect her to fend for herself. this is totally cool, but you would
think that parents who spoil their kid this much who have some sort of
convo with this kid about how they can get on their own two feet. this
doesn’t happen. her mother just keeps yelling GET A JOB!
overall, i liked the feel of the show. it highlights how things are
for a section of America’s 20 somethings at the moment, albeit 20
somethings i would never actually want to spend time with. it rings of
Sex and The City 2.0, but less campy and way less sexy.
Lena Dunham stars, writes, directs and produces this show. my fear is
that so much of her is in this project that we will be forced deeper
and deeper into her limited scope. i don’t feel there will all that much
satisfaction at the end of the road, but we’ll see.
I thought I posted this, but I didn't. I did an interview with the awesome Carsen Taite while we were in Palm Springs. I talk about The Fling and Better Off Red a little. Good times.
The Fling is available now. Scoop it up. Tell your mom.