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"Pro-Life" Group Uses Dr. Seuss To Push Its Case

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lolacat
05/14/09

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I had an issue with this crap just last week. I finally succumbed to peer pressure and read "Twilight". (It still makes me want to curse)

I know, I have a stick up my ass and I am way too old and I should just calm the fuck down and "enjoy" it. Whatever, I can't.

Edward Cullen is a crap boyfriend. He breaks into her house to watch her sleep. Creepy. He tells her she is absurd (more than once). He glares at her all the fucking time. If she says something he doesn't like he gets all stern and thin-lipped. Or he gives her warning glares to shut up. He gives her all these approving looks when she does something right. (Serious mental conditioning, here). He walks her to class and waits outside the door for her to leave. He listens in on her friends thoughts to make sure she isn't tattling on him. He listens to other boys' thoughts about her. And he is completely controlling the physical relationship.

I hate it when songs and relationships that are popular are just wrong in real life. He has every hallmark of "Mother May I Sleep With Danger?"
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the dodo, the cuckoo, and the nene
05/14/09

@lolacat: I totally agree. I read the first 2 books before they became insanely popular, about 2 years ago. I thought they were ok. Then, the more I read, the more disgusted I became. Unfortunately, I'm a YA librarian, and the kids just suck these books up. I try to use them as a jumping off point for better literature.
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lolacat
05/14/09

@the dodo, the cuckoo, and the nene: I'm 36. It seems everyone I know, including those with kids, just swoon for Edward. I. Just. Don't. Get. It.

The book was fine. It just seems icky that we are rooting for Bella to completely surrender her identity to this guy who doesn't seem to even like her, as a person, very much. I was halfway through the book and I was gobsmacked that this was "The Romance" everyone loved so much.
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rhymeswithfeather
05/14/09

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Isn't this the only song Aerosmith ever won a Grammy for? Or at least one of their biggest hits? Sad they didn't write it.
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Little Green Frog (Wise Latina)
05/14/09

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I love that she's all "yes, they are ridiculous but they pay the mortgage".

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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
05/14/09

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She's a pretty incredible, powerful figure in the music industry, though I've got to admit I found her a bit odd when she was on the first season of Making the Band.

In retrospect, I think she just had trouble disguising her disgust with O-Town.
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MizJenkins
05/14/09

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Ha! I'm so with her. I had a boyfriend who woke up early in the mornings and liked to watch me sleep. I could feel him staring at me all tenderly and whatnot and it would FREAK ME THE FUCK OUT!!

Seriously. Creepy.
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the dodo, the cuckoo, and the nene
05/14/09

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I thought it was every girl's dream to have a sparkly vampire hoveroutsider her window, listening to her breathe, not missing a thing.
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the dodo, the cuckoo, and the nene
05/14/09

@the dodo, the cuckoo, and the nene: can't type, hands are too cold.
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Remedios Varo can't see no huevos.
05/14/09

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WAIT.Wait.wait. She wrote "If I Could Turn Back Time"?!

She's a gay hero of sorts, then:

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badmutha
05/14/09

@Remedios Varo is a drug lord of the Coffee Cartel.: The greatest thing about that song was when Cher sang it on that battleship stradleing that humongous gun.
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Little Green Frog (Wise Latina)
05/14/09

@Remedios Varo is a drug lord of the Coffee Cartel.: She wrote "BECAUSE YOU LOVED ME". Does it qualify as cruel and unusual punishment?

Another gem: "Blame it on the ran". Yes, MILLI VANILLI.
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Mrs. Stephen Fry
05/14/09

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At least she can acknowledge her own songs are complete shite. She's made a lot of money from that shite.
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JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing!
05/14/09

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I argue that momentous piece of musical cheesetacularity is the only proper soundtrack for this opus of WTFuckery:

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Sputnik_Sweetheart
05/14/09

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I read that Diane Warren is terrified of dating. It kinda explains her lyrics a bit.
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sympathyforthebasementcat
05/14/09

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I'm guessing in reality, it would be more like:

I could spend my life in bitter persistence

I'll forget about this moment tomorrow

Well, every moment spent with you

Is a moment I fucking regret

I just wanna close my eyes

I just wanna fall asleep

I don't miss you, babe

And I just wanna get away
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hippichx sez PEACE PLEASE
05/14/09

@sympathyforthedevil: loves it!
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lalaland13
05/14/09

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I like that she acknowledges how ridiculous some of this is. But she still wrote them, so hmm. Will her next song be "The Restraining Order Says You Can't Watch Me Breathe No More?"

"The restraining order says you can't watch me breath no more.

So get out the door.

I'm not your whore.

You're bad in bed

And fucked in the head."
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linnyt is a walking cliché
05/14/09

@lalaland13: may it could be britney's next hit
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save jinger
05/14/09

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I love that song, creepiness and all!
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hippichx sez PEACE PLEASE
05/14/09

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most pop musicians pay other people to write their lyrics. i always thought pop was more akin to musical theater. it's dramatic, you have to play the part... without the whole story and the context, it really just isn't worth listening to.
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Tequila Mockingbird
05/14/09

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Holy hell. She wrote this? I die.

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thecameralovesyou
05/14/09

@IrockIroll: Worst movie....ever? Quite possibly.
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Tequila Mockingbird
05/14/09

@thecameralovesyou: If by worst movie...you mean best movie. My day is seriously fucked if it's on Oxygen, because I will sit there until I see Jersey serve water to the Fire Marshall.
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AJ
05/14/09

@IrockIroll: Isn't Tyra in that movie?
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thecameralovesyou
05/14/09

@IrockIroll: I disagree, but I have so many guilty pleasures I can't judge. Pretty much everyone of those 90's movies Hortense wrote an article about the other day... I love them. Never been Kissed? Can't Hardly Wait? Ever After? Yes please.
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