The first thing you should know is that the movie All the Boys I Loved Before does live up to all the hype. It’s sweet and charming and makes me wonder if there was a…
Posts tagged Sweet Valley High
I Re-Upped & Other Anxiety Tales
The one nice thing about working all the time is that I haven’t freaked out and lost sleep about paying my mortgage in months. The bad thing about working all the time is everything else….
Nancy Reagan, Regina Morrow, and goodie-goodieism
A few years ago I was at Grumpy’s talking with a writer friend of mine (intentionally vague to protect the debaucherous) about drugs. She was regaling me with stories about all the drugs she took…
2 parts SVH + 1 part WTF
When Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later arrived on my doorstep Monday afternoon, I was more than a little excited. It was the first time in my, er 26-year Sweet Valley career that I didn’t…
And apparently now Elizabeth Wakefield cries when she orgasms
It’s taken me over 72 hours to find the words to explain what happened on Thursday. Thursday started out like most any other day — peanut butter, apples, a little work, a little bit of…
Welcome Enid to the Supergenius fold
First, you should know, I have a tag called inappropriately named electronics. Sometimes I surprise myself. Now, on with the show. I got my first computer sometime in the mid-90s. It was a Circuit City…
I don’t want a new Jessica, and I definitely don’t want twin Junos
When I first heard the news that Diablo Cody was going to write and produce a movie based on my beloved Sweet Valley High books I was incredulous. My first thought was, “if she turns…
Crackpot Theory #17: Men let nostalgia get in the way of their critical thinking
Okay, I will admit upfront that I haven’t put this Crackpot Theory through the rigorous paces most of my Crackpot Theories are subjected to before the great reveal. But, well, I tempted fate by whining…
From the Fortress of Solitude
Yesterday in the midst of cleaning the Fortress of Solitude I decided that after nearly fourteen years in hiding that my Sweet Valley High books should come of the dark and take their rightful place…
Dear Jodi, the artifacts of your teen years are really just pop culture detritus
A good part of nearly every Saturday of my childhood and early teenhood were spent at the Snyder’s Drug store in Blaine located in the little mall within walking distance of our house. Generally my…