Young Adult, or this is totally not a film review
Last week I watched the movie Young Adult, which stars Charlize Theron and Patton Oswalt and was made by the people behind Juno, which I’ve never seen. Besides feeling lots and lots of secondhand...
View Article30 Day Challenge Round-up
The original thread for the 30 Day Challenge is here. I encourage everyone with a BSC-focused blog to do it; it’s really good for getting your cognitive BSC juices flowing. Here are all my answers: Day...
View ArticleLong time no see…
After the Challenge, instead of kicking my posting butt into gear, I’ve sort of moved into a phase where I’m less interested in BSC stuff: no motivation to post here or work in the wiki, less time...
View ArticleAnn and Pop Culture
Recently, there was a post in the BSC Snark livejournal community where a member had just seen Sixteen Candles for the first time and had the same reaction I did all those years ago, when I first saw...
View ArticleJanine Kishi, World’s Smartest Woman
I’ve written about it before, but Janine’s impossibly high IQ continues to haunt me. Today, I happened upon an article on the man with the world’s highest IQ–and his is 198, making Janine’s 196 a sure...
View ArticleChapter Two, The Song
A lot of the time, I don’t like things I read on the internet about the BSC. You know, blog posts and the like on non-BSC/YA websites. It’s clear to me that usually, the writer hasn’t opened a BSC book...
View ArticleWhat is your BSC era?
Not long ago, there was a post on the BSC Snark livejournal comparing the TV actresses to the movie ones. Veteran BSC snarker 3-foot-6 mentioned that she felt that the tv show did a better job...
View ArticleRSS feed issues?
Is anyone else having problems with the RSS feed for this blog? I’ve heard it from a couple of people, so if it’s affected you, please let me know what happens when you try to do RSS stuff with the...
View ArticleBroken wiki
The wiki is down and I’m not sure why, exactly, but I am waiting for some technical support from my hosting company to figure what happened. They recently updated the PHP on all servers, so that may be...
View ArticleAhh, Chapter Two.
This tumblr totally made me think of how Claudia was always described as EXOTIC!!!!1 P.S.: have not had a chance to back up/update the wiki, but I will get to it as soon as I can, I promise!
View ArticleWiki is back!
As it turns out, updating the wiki was waaay beyond my capabilities since I am not Janine Kishi and work twice a week, freelance, and study full-time and didn’t want to muck around with SSH and...
View ArticleBSCOPOLY
Baby-Sitters Club Monopoly? Don’t mind if I do. Seriously fucking cool. Also, wiki was shut down by my host due to spam; I am in contact with them and working to resolve the problem. I wanted to mess...
View ArticleFirst 20 books being rereleased as ebooks!
Read about it here. Also, they are releasing a facebook application that sounds totally fun! And these books will be unedited, unlike the last rereleases, and with have our old friend Hodges’s cover...
View ArticleBen Hobart, Man-Boy of Mystery
For girls who love mysteries so much, there are lot of puzzling things about Stoneybrook that they just blithely seem to ignore. There is, of course, the infamous Time Warp, and the Mystery of Sabrina...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
*hangs up a banner from the 70s to be an individual* I know, I know, I’m late. Kristy’s giving me a look right now. One of my problems with this blog is that I am always thinking of “new” things I’d...
View ArticleImagining Stoneybrook, Part One
Recently on the BSC Boards, there have been a few topics started with pictures of what various BSC members’ houses could potentially look like. This is a subject I enjoy thinking about, and the idea of...
View ArticleThe Stevensons: Secretly Super Rich?
One thing that the series is seriously lacking is economic diversity. In Stoneybrook, Kristy’s “poor,” before-Watson life was distinguished by living in a four-bedroom house where the fourth bedroom...
View ArticleQuick Wiki Update
I’m really excited right now, because I finally figured out (and was brave enough to try out) some technical stuff in the wiki and have managed to get rid of all the spam entries. (There are still spam...
View ArticleWiki is open!
I’ve reopened the wiki! You can now register and edit. If you were already registered, your account is still good.
View ArticleMore housekeeping
I do still want to write a big post on possible analogues for Stoneybrook’s neighborhoods based on Princeton, and perhaps search for photos of Princeton in the 50s and 60s so we get a good picture of...
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