Leave Twilight’s fan girls alone
The vampires are upon us.
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The vampires are upon us.
I knew this day would come when I would be faced with the Election Day column.
Who has a higher IQ, Albert Einstein or actor James Woods?
Newsweek recently announced that it will move to an all-digital format by 2013, re-igniting the debate between print and digital media. Faced with competition from e-readers, physical bookstores have been fighting to keep their doors open. Kindle vs. Nook vs. physical book is a commonplace discussion.
Back in elementary school, lessons were interspersed with storytime, recesses and activities because teachers understood that students needed variety to stay engaged. In college, it has been assumed that we’re capable of paying attention for longer periods of time.
Nikki Finke, editor of Deadline, caused a stir while live-blogging the Emmy’s, claiming, “Beautiful actresses are not funny,” because “only women who grew up ugly and stayed ugly, or through plastic surgery became beautiful, can pull off sitcoms or standups.”
They call themselves “Browncoats” and Nathan Fillion is their “Captain.” They swear in Chinese and they’re obsessed with a show only 14 episodes long, its 10 year anniversary last Thursday.
To celebrate “Star Trek’s” 46th anniversary this year, Google created an interactive doodle. The resulting excitement on Twitter and in professional publications emphasizes that “nerdy” interests are now “geek chic.” “Nerdy” is, in fact, the new cool, embedded in social media and Internet culture. This recent coolness feels like a breakthrough for geeks everywhere.
What “Twilight” did for the supernatural, “The Hunger Games” did for dystopia. And it has been gaining steam ever since. With two more young adult dystopian adaptations in progress, “Divergent” and “Matched,” the genre is poised to convert those who haven’t yet jumped aboard the dreary alternate future bandwagon.
In the U.S. box office all-time top ten, three of the films are superhero flicks. Two of those were released this year alone, “The Avengers” and “The Dark Knight Rises.” “The Avengers” was re-released Labor Day, after already grossing over $1 billion worldwide.
You’ve seen them around campus, plastered on light poles or car bumpers: “Revolution.”
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