Tean Movie Time: Clueless
So far: But I’m a Cheerleader, Bring It On, Saved!. Internets, you know I’m a Jane Austen nut. But before I read a word of Austen, I saw the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, and Amy Heckerling’s adaptation of Emma. They both came out in 1995, the year I turned fourteen. Yes, Internets, my very first teen movie was: Clueless. I was not alone. Clueless was almost effortlessly influential on teenage fashion and vernacular for years to come. Hahaha, what am I saying, effortlessly? Amy Heckerling, who wrote as well as directed and is not incidentally a massive role model...
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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....
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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...
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My parents are on a trip this week, which is FABULOUS. I mean. I love them. I love spending time with them. But my Dad has spent his married life making the family meals, and he’s got the menu down to a fine art: Roast meat, steamed fish, or cold cuts, accompanied by boiled potatoes, steamed silverbeet and cauliflower, and occasionally carrots and peas. There might be a gravy. There might be a cheese sauce. There will be a green salad for the rabbit food eaters. And this is a fine menu! But it becomes progressively less fine when one is served it every day. Now that Dad is out of the...
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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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