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Glitterbug (likes life shaken, not stirred)
10/02/09

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My thirteen-year-old self would kill to be in this competition - somewhere in my attic (they began to freak me out), I have zombies, vampires, witches, a werewolf (THAT took a while!), mass murderers, you name it. When my little sister asked what happened to her old Malibu Barbie she got a nasty, shaved-and-painted surprise...
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quietlygoingmad
10/02/09

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I think this might be the best Barbie makeover I've ever encountered. [www.etsy.com]
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Glitterbug (likes life shaken, not stirred)
10/02/09

@quietlygoingmad: In the words of Jim Carrey, B-E-A-Yoooooutiful!
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slowpoke.r
09/10/09

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The publisher is currently in the process of selecting two other prominent female authors for its comic book series, and said it was deliberating between Toni Morrison, Ayn Rand, Margaret Atwood, Ursula LeGuin, Harper Lee, Anne Rice, Beatrix Potter and Virginia Woolf. The books are being published as part of its Female Force series, which has already featured biographies of Sarah Palin, Michelle Obama and Hilary Clinton.

I am so confused by their selection process. Stephanie Meyer? Really? I know the books are a commercial success but I thought it was widely acknowledged that they're terribly written, unlike the Harry Potter series and the work of all the other authors listed.
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Theomeny
09/10/09

@slowpoke.r: Ayn 'eugenics is good - screw everyone else' Rand? Really? Really?
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slowpoke.r
09/10/09

@Theomeny: Yeah, I know. It's not the list I would make but at least all the writers on it could string together well-turned sentences (and even whole paragraphs and chapters) which is not my experience of the one Twilight book I read.
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Lymed
09/10/09

@Theomeny: If you aren't judging people by whether you agree with ideals, then you can make an argument for Ayn Rand. I would say her writing is way more influential than Stephanie Meyer and she developed a philosophy.
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Theomeny
09/10/09

@Lymed: I disagree. Ayn Rand is taught, sure. But it's a philosophy of extreme exclusivity and in many cases plagiarized from other works. The very possibility of Rand's inclusion - is more damaging than that of Stephanie Myer.

While I dislike Ms. Myer, she's a heck of a lot more harmless to the plagiarists and the pseudo-intellectual Rand. Besides, it's a lot more popular to make fun of Ms. Myer; then those who thought Rand is the best thing since sliced-white-bread.
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tiredfairy
09/10/09

@slowpoke.r: Their selection process is, from what I can gather, jumping onto whatever "female force" is currently "popular". They did an HRC one and I think an Michelle Obama one is in the works, too. I haven't read any of them so I don't what the quality is like, or how in depth they really are, or what sort of bias they may have.

It's kind of an odd use of the form, really, depending on how they do it. Memoir or biography comics aren't new or anything...but Fun Home or Maus these are not.
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morninggloria
09/10/09

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That's a pretty bad rendering of Palin, unless the artist intended her to look like Trent Lott in a wig.
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Lymed
09/10/09

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Sarah meets her doppelganger, Tina.
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