Sweet Valley High is Serious Business!

I'd like to call your attention to one of the more interesting blogs I've read recently. The Dairi Burger devotes itself to intense literary analysis of Sweet Valley High. As you'll soon realize, this is an understatement. The author of this blog examines Sweet Valley High much like a biologist with microscope.

Consider this excerpt:

First, let’s start with the cover. Why did Jessica and her date stop at the Sears portrait studio? Why in the hell does Scott have a porn moustache? He looks old enough to be my father. Or a little bit like a drag king. Creepy. And Jessica and her damn feathered hair.

The one where you think Jessica has sex but the title and cover are misleading, or #5 All Night Long « The Dairi Burger

I, unfortunately, would not be able to answer these questions. In my defense, I wouldn't be able to tell you why the twins battled a werewolf, or why a classmate of Alice Wakefield's tried to steal her face via a transplant, nor why Elizabeth fell in love with a Parisian prince.

Not that I've ever ready a Sweet Valley High book. Because... um... why would I?

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Octopus Art

There seems to be a blog for every niche. No truer is this than with Octopia, a blog that specializes not just in octopii or art — but octopii depicted in art. Boy, there seems to be lots of material too so far.

It's fascinating to me that a Yale student would have such a particular fascination with cephalopods. Not that this is anything worth discouraging. Afterall, it is an interesting subject. I just wonder how she finds material on something so specialized. I mean, it's hard enough for me to showcase quixoticals — and I'm quite eclectic. This girl, therefore, must be pretty dedicated.

As far as octopii as animals are concerned, I hear they have the intelligence of a dog. It is a wonder to me that nobody has bothered to keep one as a pet. Does anyone know if they do tricks?

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Fun with Multiple Wives!

A woman in a polygamous marriage has decided to blog about her experiences. This one isn't a fundamentalist Mormon, but a fundamentalist Muslim. One neat facet of her writing is the abundance of ways she misspells the word "polygamous". For instance, the name of her blog is Polygynous Blessings.

For all the ways she extols the benefits of polygamy, she sure seems to have a lot of drama in her life. For instance, take a look at this excerpt from a post.

so last weekend in a discussion between myself and three other sisters, which was really a discussion between myself and one sister with two other sisters intercepting at their leisure, i made some statements about my sister-wife that were misconstrued as me making hubby's marriage to her sound like a "charity case." one sister present, after said conversation, proceeded to tell another sister who was not even in the room when the conversation was happening, that i made my sister-wife out to seem like a "charity case," and eventually the news reached my sister-wife's ears. needless to say, she called me and we talked about it and everything is cool. but i just thought i would post an "official" statement to the world:

MY SISTER-WIFE IS NOT A CHARITY CASE!!!!

Polygynous Blessings

It's not my business to judge anybody. Therefore, be sure I'm not trying to make fun of her. I understand she comes from a certain cultural and religious reality that I do not share, and she has to live with it.

With that said, polygamy in the West is still outlawed. I'm not going to argue whether polygamy should be legal or not. However, should immigrants complain about discrimination against their lifestyle when they know this lifestyle is against the law? Another way of stating this: what is the rationality of leaving your country — where polygamy is acceptable — in order to move to a country where it is inacceptable? And then, why complain?

On a personal note, I do not know why anyone would want multiple wives. I simply don't know how you can be that attentive to more than one wife. Hell, I'm having a hard time being attentive to multiple friends. Multiple wives seems to be a headache.