Teen Movie Times: Bring It On
Kia ora, Internets! I was going to do a post on Teen Comedy Movies with Serious Messages, but it, uh, it kinda grew! So now it’s a series. On the list so far: Bend It Like Beckham Bring It On But I’m A Cheerleader! Clueless Easy A Empire Records Juno Mean Girls Saved! Stick It Recommendations are very welcome. I can’t guarantee I’ll even get to all of the ones on my list (some of the messages are pretty nebulous, but either beloved or interesting enough that I kinda want to talk about them anyway) but heck. Why not? On with the show! Teen Comedy With A Serious Message...
read moreDaniel Vettori is a Vampire
This is Daniel Vettori. He plays cricket* for New Zealand. He is also a vampire. Karen, you say, this is a startling claim! However did you arrive at this conclusion? Internets, I say, allow me to make my case. Exhibit A: Modern vampires are hot. Daniel Vettori** is hot: Exhibit B: Vampires don’t age, and neither does Daniel Vettori. Daniel Vettori has been a member of the New Zealand team since he was supposedly 18 years old BUT PROBABLY REALLY 97 or something. He looks 18 now, only to fool people that he is 32, the age he claims, he will sometimes grow a beard or sketch...
read moreThree Things For A Post
Three things, internets! 1: When We Wake First pass pages: SUCCESS [Transcript: A pile of printer paper bound with heavy duty rubber bands, many post-it flags indicating changes in the top left corner. The top page reads WHEN WE WAKE in a delightfully futuristic typeface] Typically nervewracking work, because what if you don’t like the book anymore? Turns out I do, excellent, send it off on Monday. 2: First ever creme brulee: MOSTLY SUCCESS. [Transcript: A creme brulee in a grey terracotta soup bowl, looking mighty fine if I do say so myself.] Me: Where are those ramekins you said you...
read moreOn The Sromance
Bromances! We know them, right? Those boys who would do anything for each other, who would die or kill for each other, who, even in the depths of their hatred for each other, are linked by their broish passion. Sometimes they involve men who are actually related: Dean and Sam from Supernatural Stefan and Damon from The Vampire Diaries Nick and Alan from the Demon’s Lexicon Sometimes they involve bros who are unrelated: Jay and Silent Bob Shawn and Gus from Psych John Watson and Sherlock Holmes Troy and Abed from Community But the bromance goes beyond friendship or fraternal affection....
read moreResolution
Karen’s New Year Resolutions, All About Writing And Reading, Because She Is A Nerd: 1: Read all of Shakespeare’s plays that I haven’t read. Even the really boring history plays that go on forever and everyone is named after their title not their name and it gets super confusing because later on there are different people with the same title and omg do we hate Gloucester or like him right now? I want to do this because, what the hell, why not, I have read about half of them anyway in the course of my nerdy education/drama days. So fill out the course! Get my Shakespeare merit...
read moreAnd STAY out.
Good morning, Internets, and a very happy new year to you. I had planned to go to Christchurch and join friends for New Year’s Eve, but the recent quake and heavy aftershocks prompted a schedule change. Instead, I brought in the season playing cards with my mother and youngest brother, who insisted, after a few false starts, that we hold hands and sing Auld Lang Syne. There are many worse ways to greet the New Year than safe, warm, well-fed and singing with one’s family. And there may not really be any bad way to bid goodbye to 2011, a year that sucked most heartily on a number of...
read moreAbout Karen
Karen Healey is a young adult novelist. She is the author of the urban fantasies GUARDIAN OF THE DEAD and THE SHATTERING, both set in New Zealand, and the forthcoming sci-fi adventure WHEN WE WAKE. GUARDIAN OF THE DEAD won the 2010 Aurealis Award for Best YA Novel and was a finalist for the William C. Morris Award. Karen can tell you a lot about baking, covers of "Hallelujah" and superhero comics.
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