geekery

I spent a while the morning writing a little treatise for the parent handbook about young adult materials, and what YA really means. It's meant to solve a few problems we've been having with younger and younger kids pushing the YA envelope, and also to make sure parents understand that YA is not just a reading level thing...while encouraging them not to panic about content and respect YA as Real Literature. If you're one of those people who geek out on this sort of thing and feel like proofreading or whatever (Ally? :)) I will pastey pastey:

( Yay for YA )

Today I go move shelves around and try to make better use of my space in the library, and pick up a purchase order so I can go spend tons of money at Borders tomorrow for the kiddies. SO MUCH FUN. :)

why don't you sit down on top of me?

PopWatch lead me to this new Timbaland/50 Cent/JT video of futuristic porny sci-fi bizarreness. Timbaland is apparently in charge of the Matrix, Fiddy causes women to spontaneously orgasm in their cars while he watches from a distance, and JT...well, he's JT. Vaguely creepy, hanging around outside girls' doors...you know. Popwatch sez:

"After defrosting from their cryogenic chambers, mega-billionaires 50 Cent, Justin Timberlake, and Timbaland have established an advanced Big Brother state to help them spy on lovely ladies in futuristic lingerie. Still looking for a lead single to launch Curtis into the charts, 50 takes a break from the grind and decides to find some girls. He locks onto his target with a sniper rifle — the new-age analog of Cupid's bow and arrow — causing her to suffer dangerously powerful orgasms in her car as she leads him to a top-secret strip club. Here, the ladies fruitlessly blindfold his bionic eyes while Timbaland uses pre-cog technology stolen from the set of Minority Report to cycle through all of the X-rated CCTV footage he can get his hands on. (So much easier than opening multiple tabs in Firefox!) Meanwhile, JT hasn't fully adapted to the relaxed sexual mores of the new era — he's still an old-fashioned, one-woman kind of guy, so he stakes out his favorite cyber-chick's house and uses his all-powerful mouse pad to dispense with the foreplay."

And yeah, that just about sums it up in a bizarrely accurate fashion.

Wanna see?

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