Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Busytown: She loves you, YA, YA, YA!, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Yeah, that makes no sense, since books are so much thicker and heavier. You wouldn't get a lot more than a paper cut fom a comic.
You could kill someone with this.
Usagi Yojimbo is a really wonderful boy-friendly comic book -- the kind of comix crack a youngling might even accidentally learn something off. :)
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Hard News: Popular Paranoiac Politics, in reply to BenWilson,
Yes, Coddington seems to have lifted her game dramatically this year.
From the gutter to the cellar? Oven-fresh cookies for everyone!
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Muriel Newman is downplaying her pseudo-history fancies in the Herald today.
And as I've seen with my own eyes, trying to take on Finlayson with truthiness is bringing a toothpick to a machete fight. Whatever else you say about him, he does take serious arguments seriously but you can't wing it. And, yes, Muriel -- Chris does know how to use Google. Deal with it.
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Sorry to sully the highbrow discussion, but my 12yo boy reads Stephen King and is hanging out to read The Omen when he's '(much) older'. How worried should I be?
Purely on the grounds of David Seltzer's functional illiteracy and leering sadism, I would issue a papal anathema. I'd shove Clive Barker's The Thief of Always and Gaiman's The Graveyard Book under his nose and take it from there. Both well-written, scary (in all the right places) but not morally cretinous and have young male protagonists. Of course, I must issue the standard caveat -- you know your child, and his reading level and emotional maturity, infinitely better than I do.
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Hard News: Popular Paranoiac Politics, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
To be fair, there is a delightful drinking game you can play with the Winston Peters interview:
Every time he tells a transparent falsehood, take a drink.
Call me when you get out of detox.
All brought to you as part of the Sunday Star Times' 'two facts max' campaign.
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Hard News: Popular Paranoiac Politics, in reply to Raymond A Francis,
I get the distinct feeling that you RB and the rest of us at PA would love to see a far right party
No, not really. Torturing puppies meets all my brain-melting sadism needs.
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Meahwhile, what's scarier -- getting an anatomically implausible tea bagging from the Herald on Sunday or the Sunday Star Times not only giving Winston Peters a front page blow job but swallowing the jizz and asking for seconds? Not for the first time, I've got to ask WTF is up with the toxic waste bromance between Peters and the meedjia.
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Another problem with forming a Bell Tea Party is that, unlike the castrated moderates in the Republican Party, people like Chris Finlayson are willing and able to call bullshit in no uncertain terms.
BTW, Muriel, it's a little disingenuous to whine about Finlayson "not having an open mind" when the Coastal Coalition is appearing in front a select committee it has previously assailed as a "travesty of democracy" it has no confidence in or respect for.
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There were lists on Bookman Beattie that included "Night" by Elie Wiesel as a bestselling download for *YA readers" -bloody hell!
Indeed - I remember reading a biography of Dodie Smith, and how she was somewhat alarmed (but gratified) to be getting fan letters from teenage girls who adored I Capture The Castle. Wonderful wonderful novel, but she never sat down and wrote a novel for "YA readers" but a novel with a 17 year-old protagonist.
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At least now I can read my trashy Roman detective series with impunity.
Would that be Marcus Didius Falco or the more serious (but still wonderful) Gordianus the Finder? Down these mean strade...
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