Monday, June 6, 2011

WSJ

6/06/2011 06:09:00 PM  Kathleen Ortiz  3 comments

Check out my post on the agency blog.

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Your dinosaur obviously has rage issues. He's got an attitude problem, and his differing eye sizes make me wonder if he's been using drugs. His odd speech pattern and lack of literacy gives me pause as well, and the only possible conclusion I can draw is that this is a photograph of someone exposed to YAlit.

Thank you for sharing this representation of the horrors such stories can cause. When an otherwise sane young reptile files his teeth into fangs to fit in with the vampires, dyes his skin green and uses body-modification to implant horns and a tail, I think we can all agree that this cultural phenomenon has reached critical mass.

Give him a hug, a cookie, and send him to room 19 for behavior modification. We'll start with back-to-back audiobooks of Superfudge and Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, because reading about nine-year-olds is what all good teens should be doing.

:-P

(With apologies to Judy Bloom, who had no part in the WSJ article and actually opposes censorship. Perhaps if those citing her as an example to be held up as the Vanguard of YA lit would actually pay attention to what she's said, then they'd better understand why some books are as "dark" as they are)

Blume, not Bloom *head/desk*

Stupid spellcheck.

Very cute, love your Dino.

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