The Dairi Burger

I love when you all give me ideas for posts! There was some spec that there is an actress/model out there that may have been the model for the early, wispy-banged twins. Who are out front runners?

The popular gal from Teen Wolf, which is my pick. Maybe because she has the hair and the Donald Trump bangs, but she also has the rounded face and a dimple.

Next up, Haviland Morris of Sixteen Candles fame. Also has the hair, and the Jessica attitude.

And this may be a stretch, but Betty Childs from Revenge of the Nerds (um, how good is that movie?) but because she plays a stuck-up blond cheerleader.

I think it’s univerally agreed upon that the Daniel twins are quite annoying and don’t really fit the image, but my vote if they are still running it now are the contact lens commercial twins, otherwise known as the emotional twins on the model reality show 8th and Ocean. Did anyone ever watch that but me?

Next up on my random list: Tiny pants, on her blog, reminded me of a movie that I thought only existed in my subconcious- Private School. You all know my obsession with private schools, so I of course loved it when I saw it late night when I was a child. Of course, watching it now, I was embarassed for everyone involved. Excet for the dreamy Matthew Modine (Vision Quest, anyone?) Also, lots of boobs and horribly timed rape jokes. Jordan, the character I worshipped, was obsessed with guys taking pictures of her naked and showing her breasts to anyone with eyes. After that, everytime I played Barbies, I named my character Jordan in homage to the character. Ah, role models.

Finally, after an ebay search for a specific book, I found this! There were actual dolls! Was someone ever going to tell me?

Now, call me crazy, but aren’t those outfits the ones they wear to the jungle prom (where Sam gets killed) or Lila’s Christmas party (where Margo tries to murder them). So why not make it into a fashion doll?

You know what one of my pet peeves are? I mean, among the thousands I have. Blogs that don’t update regularly. And I don’t want that blog to be one of them. However…..

I’m not going anywhere, but I have some life stuff going on, like job stuff (I just got myself a new one), personal stuff, starting my MLIS program (yay!), travel, so I may not be able to regularly be posting reviews and such, but I totally don’t want to take a hiatus. Believe me, I’d so much rather be reading SVH than half this “grown up” crap that I need to do.

So here’s my pledge: I will still have as many reviews as I can do, but they may be less frequent. I pledge to do at least one “review” a week. But I will make regaular posts that are intended as more discussion items, so you all can fill in the blanks. My life will slow down a little in September and I imagine I can get back to regular postings. So hang in until then and don’t give up on me!

I also have some other writing projects that I’m excited about, stayed tuned for that…

Besides, Penny Ayala is like totally on my back to write stuff all the time. She’s such a hardass.

I also wanted to mention that I have been TiVo-ing the Travel Channel a lot, and I have a fascination with Passport to Great Weekends with Samantha Brown. However, Samantha annoys the crap out of me and I get a total Jessica vibe from her for some reason. In how she has the “party hasn’t started until I get here” mentality and she shamelessly flirts with everyone she meets, as if she is the toast of the town (hellloooo, you have comcera crews with you and a producer to set up these interactions, don’t think it is because people can’t resist you). Plus, she rocked the gingham-esque dress in Texas. Maybe I am also bitter because when she went to San Francisco she spent most of the episode at the Supper Club and Boudin’s. Wtf is that about?

Several of you sent me this link, so thanks- Francine Pascal appears on This American Life to talk about prom! Ira Glass and Francine- who would have thought? I haven’t listened to it yet. I am scared to hear Francine’ voice. Do we think Francine is wealthy? Her books did sell quite well. Maybe she is living out her dream in a Spanish-tiled mansion with a fountain in the courtyard, like Lila’s.

I totally just realized that The DB just passed its one year birthday! How could I have missed it? Well, I guess I was too busy because Lila threw me a party at her house- her maid served us finger sandwhiches, and the Droids played and wrote a song especially about me. Although I didn’t hear it because I was too busy getting jealous that my boyfriend was writing letters to someone so I pushed him in the pool. Then I went off with Bruce and he touched my boobs. Then some crazy psycho tried to kill me and my boyfriend saved me and we made up by not having sex. It was a crazy night!

I’m also reading The Luxe by Anna Godbersen. Oh my god, I am not sure if they are good or not, but it’s very SVH.

And just throwing it out there, not saying it will definitely happen, just trying to see some interest, but if it were to happen, is anyone interested in a meetup in the Bay area? Leave a comment or email me. Just throwing it out there.

Hey all, I’ve been getting some questions about my opinions about the released versions of the books. Love that you value my opinion! However, I will not be reading nor recapping these versions. My reasons and motivations for this blog are to relive the books that I read in the past and to reflect on those and I want to concentrate on the originals as they were. I think you already know my strong feelings against the rerelease of the books because (a)it is a totally dumb idea and the updates are ridiculous and unbelievable (even moreso than the plotlines in the original!) and (b) there is much better literature that should get the effort to be marketed to teens and (c) the motivation seems purely monetary for Random House.

However, it is clearly a great topic of interest to many of you and quite frankly my reasons for continuuing to do recaps is because of the support I’ve received on this blog. So, I’ve set up a place over here for you all to discuss it and post your own recaps. Please don’t take it personally if I do not join in!

Also, be sure to add your best SVH book never written.

Thanks to all of you that emailed this to me; Gawker posted a press release about the updating and rereleasing of the series and the changes that will be made to update it. They proudly display the fact that the twins are now a “perfect size 4″ instead of a “perfect size 6″. Right now I barely have the energy to get enraged because it’s not like I am surprised. But I think you all know how I feel.

The other dumb thing are the other updates. Who cares what car they drive. Are they going to have cell phones and email? If they did, you can imagine how many misunderstandings would have been avoided, and the twins could cheat on their boyfriends even more. Wtf is with Liz’s Gossip-Girl esque blog? Is that something St. Liz would really do?

Don’t get me started. Discuss amongst yourselves.

p.s thanks to whoever posted the link here on this entry because it got a lot of new visitors here. Welcome!

p.p.s. I was loving the discussion on an earlier post about modern, postive YA books, so I created a new “forum” under The DB book club. That was a commenter’s idea, so thank you.