MySpace Eats Brains for Breakfast

Yes, I’ve been busy and sick since my last post, but mostly I’ve been lazy. And busy. But also lazy. This is my problem. I lack long-term focus and am easily side-tracked. I was diagnosed with ADD ages ago, but I hate taking medication unless I absolutely need it to, say, keep me living or from ripping my own skull off.

Anyway, I’ve been trying to condense the multitude of reasons I hate MySpace so much (and yet use it anyway) and managed to limit it to four. This is amazing since I generally lack the ability to condense anything into under a 200 item list.

1. The shit that people do to their pages. If you think hot pink text on a sparkling green background is readable, you should be sent to aesthetics hell.

2. A lot of my offline friends are idiots on the internet. My friends can’t type, don’t understand about spam, and are emo on the internet. It’s embarrassing to be associated with these people.

Why do you care if you’re not in my Top 4?

Oh, yes. I do not have a Top 8. I don’t like my friends enough when they’re online to keep most of them on there. In fact, I have Barack Obama and Dexter Morgan in my Top 4 because MySpace wouldn’t allow me to have a Top 2.

3. MySpace is now a verb. The first time a friend said “I’ll MySpace you later”, I nearly wept. It sounds dirty, but not in a happy way. :(

4. Now I use MySpace as a verb with certain friends who need to contact me. It’s terrible, really.

And yet I have a MySpace purely to keep up with people I might not have otherwise. I’ve found people I’ve not talked to for five to twelve years. I’ve found a girl I went to high school with only to find out he’s not a girl anymore which was handy to know up front the next time I saw him.

Months ago I had a dream about a girl I knew in primary school. She was a cool kid so I figured she may have grown up to be awesome. And, as a sidenote, I was sure she was gay.

Oh, how gaydar and cool-kid-detector failed me.

I decided to look her up on MySpace only to find out she’s now stupid, skanky, greasy, blonde¹, alcoholic, and the kind of straight girl that makes out with other girls just so she can post pictures on the internet.

What are other problems with MySpace? And are any other social networking sites necessarily better? Or are there other aspects that make them just as annoying?

1. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. ;) ↩

Book Review: Hero

Title: Hero
Author: Perry Moore
Genres: fantasy, LGBTQ, science fiction, young adult

I don’t usually buy hardcover books, but when I was wondering through Barnes & Noble the other day while waiting for the movie theater to open, I impulsively bought two (which is why I am now broke) hardcover books including this one.

I don’t think I’ve ever actually encountered a YA novel before about superheroes which is unfortunate, really. I’m a huge fan of NBC’s Heroes and sometimes have a crush on Wonder Woman because, come on, Wonder Woman is awesome.

One thing I like most about this book is that the jacket didn’t mention the main character, a teenage superhero in the making, is gay. Again, I’m not sure I’ve actually encountered a YA novel before with a gay character that isn’t clearly labeled somewhere.

Everything superhero is banned from his home by his dad, a former, now disgraced, hero without powers. Because, of course, it’s not enough Thom has to hide his position within the League (the same organization that disowned his dad after a particularly tragic, but misunderstood incident), he also has to hide his sexuality from both the town as well as his homophobic father.

I really enjoyed this book and I’m definitely looking forward to reading the future Hero sequels by Perry Moore.

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