The Super Nostalgic Book Flashback Challenge: Round 6 Part 1 Reviews

This month I've decided to dedicate The Super Nostalgic Book Flashback Challenge to long lost Pike sibling Christopher.
Perhaps next month I'll read some horse stories written by his sister Mallory. ;)

EvilEva reviews...... Chain Letter by Christopher Pike. 

Circa: 1986.

Dissecting The Cover:
Because you can judge a book by its cover!
*The title, Chain Letter, looks like letters cut out of a magazine or newspaper. Like you would do if you were making a ransom note, NOT a chain letter. I've never gotten a ransom note style chain letter before and believe me, I have gotten plenty of chain letters in my day. I have many enemies.
*There's a house and a girl's silhouette in the window, reading her chain letter. I've said this millions of times to people in books, in movies and on TV that are being stalked: Get some blinds! I have blinds. They keep the prying eyes of my many enemies outta my bidness.
*Why'd the Caretaker fuck up the flag on the mailbox? That's just rude.

Lets Review:
Being a teenager is so dope. There are track meets and opening night for the big play and valedictorian speeches to give! Those are the things Alison and her friends are looking forward to senior year.
Oh, except for the fact that someone's going all I Know What You Did Last Summer on their asses.
The ominous Caretaker has sent them, as you may have guessed from the title of this book, a chain letter detailing a task that they each must perform or shit's gonna get serious.
Well some of the gang wanna defy the Caretaker. Fran tries leaving town to get out of doing her assignment. Bad move, Fran. Her ass gets kidnapped.
Kipp, who's a ginormous douchenugget, poo poos the Caretaker's warnings, so his precious car gets ruined and he gets snatched from his bed in the middle of the night.
So, evidently, the Caretaker ain't playing, y'all.
He or she wants Brenda to tell all the teachers to go to hell. Then she or he wants Joan to start a rumor that she's gay. Then he or she wants poor, sick, fragile Neil to burn the whole fucking school down!
But instead Neil's house burns down. While Neil is in it! Neil dies!
But the Caretaker doesn't, uh,... care. She or he just keeps on harassing these teens.
One night, after her parents leave for New York to celebrate their twentieth anniversary/second honeymoon even though two of their daughter's friends have gone missing and one of them was recently burned to a crisp, Alison is left all alone in her home which is part of a housing tract that currently has no other occupants. Oh, and it was a dark and stormy night. Of course it was. So Alison is waiting for Brenda and Joan to show up but guess what!?! If you guessed they got kidnapped before they could make it to Alison's house then you are correct!
So of course the Caretaker goes after Sitting Duck Alison next.
Meanwhile, Tony is taking care of business. He goes to the desert to dig up the shallow grave of the man that they ran over last summer. Yeah. They RAN OVER A MAN LAST SUMMER!!! And they've been keeping it a secret ever since. But the Caretaker knows about their dirty deed. And she or he is gonna exact revenge. In fact, he or she is exacting his or her revenge right now back at Alison's house.
Surprisingly, Alison does something not completely useless and gets her father's gun. And she actually shoots the Caretaker! But she or he gets away before Alison can find out his or her identity.
Now it's Alison's chance to get the fuck up outta here. She dashes to her car but it won't start. Natch.
Then she hears something. It sounds like music. And there's a light on at one of the houses in the tract! Maybe they can help her! So she stupidly runs to the house.
And surprise, surprise. The Caretaker is there.
And it's......
Neil!?!?!
Wait a fucking second! Neil is supposed to be dead!
But no, he's not. He faked his death, like ya do. The charred bones found in Neil's bed were those of the man they ran over last summer! (Which Dumbass Tony is now finding out, having spent all this time digging up an empty grave.)
Turns out Neil has cancer and he's really sick. And he thinks he got cancer because they ran over that dude and didn't report it to the police. Now, I'm no doctor but I'm fairly certain that's not how diseases work but anyway. Neil has everyone but Tony tied up and he's gonna kill them all and himself so they can join that man cos it's what they all deserve or some shit.
Anyhoo, Tony finally figures it all out and makes it to the house just in time. He tries to talk Neil down but Neil is done son. He's eaten up with cancer and guilt and both are killing him. He wants Tony to take him away so he can die, since, you know, everyone else already thinks he is dead. 
Alison, Fran, Joan, Brenda and Kipp are freed and go back to life as usual.
Tony comes back after watching Neil die (for reals this time) and buries him where they buried the man that they ran down last summer. Which they still haven't reported. I guess it's a good thing this guy didn't have a family that actually gave a shit about him.
So Tony and Alison get their mack on and no one gets punished for full-on killing that guy and then lying about it for a year and really lying about it still. 
Told you. It's so dope to be a teenager.

Say Whaaat!?!:
And the most ridiculous line in the entire book goes to...
Alison for describing the world's weirdest date night EVER:

They planned to go to a movie after dinner but they talked so long over dessert that they missed the last show. They ended up flying a kite in the park across from the school. Alison had never flown a kite at night. You couldn't see the silly thing and knew it was up there somewhere only by the tug on the string. When they were done, Tony simply let it go.

Ok, seriously? Who flies a fucking kite on a first date? Question 2: who flies a fucking kite on a first date AT NIGHT? Question 3: when flying a fucking kite on a first date at night, why would you simply let it go when you're done? Seems like a waste of a perfectly good kite to me.

EvilEva reviews...... Weekend by Christopher Pike.
Circa: 1986.

Dissecting The Cover:
*There's an ultra modern house with some chick silhouetted in the window. What's up with Christopher Pike books and their silhouetted chicks in the window?
*There's a raven on the ultra modern post flanking the ultra modern driveway leading to the ultra modern house. That means shit's about to get real so hide your cars, y'all.
*The tagline is...

By Sunday they were just trying to stay alive.

Well maybe if y'all would quit poisoning each other your chance of living would go up exponentially.

Lets Review:
It's time for a weekend road trip! Woo-hoo! Friends/enemies/frenemies/exs/couples Shani, Park, Angie, Sol, Kerry, Bert, Flynn and Lena are off to visit Lena's sick sis Robin at their Mexican McMansion. It's gonna be sooooo fun! Surf, sand and Montezuma's Revenge! The gang can't wait. But then, of course, bad shizz starts going down.
First, Sol's crap-ass van gets a flat tire and Park nearly gets bitten by a snake and they meet a creepy shaman dude that tells them a stupid story about birds instead of actually helping them.
Then the garage totally blows the fuck up! While Bert is still in it!
Meanwhile, Robin appears to be getting sicker. Oh noes! Her nurse left this morning and all the cars got blown up. And now it's storming outside. What should we do?
Lets have dinner! Rut row! Someone has poisoned all the dinner guests. They all wake up handcuffed to the floor of the recording studio. Did i mention that Lena and Robin's dad is like some kind of record exec or producer or some shit like that? And that both Lena and Robin are adopted? The last bit will be need-to-know info in a minute. Anyhoodles, so the gang, minus Robin who is upstairs hooked up to her dialysis machine, are all trapped in a room. And in the middle of said room is a box. And in said box is a bunch of snakes.
Suddenly a voice tells them that they best start dishing about what went down Last November or it's gonna get Snakes On A Plane up in this piece.
Here's what happened Last November:
The gang was having a party at Angie's house. And they were totally getting their drank on like nobody's business. Well Robin's a goody-goody, y'all, so it became the groups mission to get her ass wasted. So Robin slams back a glass o' beer. But oh no! It's been POISONED! Someone laced the drink with an insecticide. So now Robin's only got one shitty kidney, she's on dialysis and her life was pretty much ruined Last November.
But the voice already knew this shit. He/she wants to know what exactly went down. She/he wants to know who it was that poisoned Robin. So the teens try to piece together that night when suddenly Not Dead Bert crashes through the door. And now the snakes are loose and Lena gets bitten by one.
The group escapes the recording studio, fetches Robin and hunkers down in another room thinking that some psycho is in the house who wants to know the truth about Last November. Oh and who totes wants to kill them too!
But turns out there wasn't a psycho in the house. It was just Lena. She poisoned them and dragged them downstairs and rigged the snakes and the voice and everything. She wanted her sister's poisoner to confess.
And Flynn wants the same thing. And he's got a gun! So he points the gun at their heads and forces them to remember Last November.
Kerry finally breaks down and confesses that she did it but it was an accident. She was mad at that bitch Lena for stealing her boyfriend, Sol. She was so mad in fact that she accidentally poured a glass of insecticide, mixed it with a beer and let Robin chug it like a champ before she realized "Holy shitballs! I just poisoned someone!"
Flynn is totally gonna shoot Kerry in her face.... if Robin wants him to. Robin gets to choose Kerry's fate, whether she lives another day or gets her brain splattered all over the carpet so Dexter Morgan can fly down and analyze her blood smears.
Well, of course, Robin being such a goody-goody good girl lets Kerry live all because of the dumbass bird story her shaman friend told her.
Then we find out Flynn gave such a shit about Robin because she's his biological sister! He found out about her from their bio-mom, searched for her, found out she needed a kidney transplant, and is now contemplating whether to give her one of his awesome nonsuckish kidneys. And because of Robin's goody goodness of not wanting to be a murderess and all, Flynn (whose actual name is Michael, he was using an alias this whole time for a really stupid reason.) has decided that he will gift Robin with one of his fully functioning kidneys. So all is forgiven! Hooray!
But wait. Park wants to know why he still feels like tee totes shizz. It's because Flynn has been poisoning them... with the Mexican water! It hasn't been filtered all weekend. Now the gang can enjoy massive bouts of diarrhea for the rest of the trip! What a great souvenir!

Say Whaaat!?!:
And the most ridiculous line in the entire book goes to...
Shani, with this disgusting gem about her current ass situation:

Ordinarily she had a nervous stomach, but this was ridiculous. She sat grimacing on the toilet, worried that she would vomit on top of her diarrhea.

Um. Eww Shani. I realize this book was written in the 80s but here in the 2000s that's what we like to call TMI.
There was also this little nugget, which kinda leads me to believe that Christopher Pike might be racist towards Mexicans. This is how he describes a snake attack. Sol, who is Mexican, is trying to kill a snake that is inches away from biting the very white Park:

Sol whipped down his stone with a force sufficient to crack the miserable road. But the snake had only been baiting him. This was Mexico; it wanted a Mexican.

So this snake has race-specific taste buds? That's weird.

You know, I've noticed something in these Christopher Pike books, whenever these teens do something bad i.e. are involved in a hit and run or poisoning someone to the point of kidney failure, they don't have to deal with any kind of consequences. No one went to prison. Hell, no one even went to juvie. Even further hell, no one even got stuck with community service.
I bet Lindsey Lohan wishes she lived in a world created by Christopher Pike. Then instead of having an alcohol monitoring bracelet and being on house arrest, she could be hooking up under the bleachers with the cutest guy in school.
Well that's all the Christopher Pike-y goodness I have for you right now. Check back cos I'll also be reviewing Master of Murder and Scavenger Hunt soon.

Books Into Movies Linky-Dink-O-Rama

Mortal Instruments movie news: Jamie Campbell Bower has been cast as Jace Wayland, who i'm guessing is the main dude in the books. i still haven't read this series but i really need to. i was hoping to get to it this month for my TBR Challenge but i don't know if i'll be able to what with the moving and all. At any rate, i plan on reading the first book, City of Bones, as soon as i can. i don't know when the movie is gonna come out but i'll keep you posted with any and all details.

Here's the trailer for One Day by David Nicholls starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess. It's also yet another book on my TBR pile that i've been meaning to get to. It looks very chick-flicky. i hate Anne Hathaway's accent. i realize that she is not British but she is an actor so she should really get a dialect coach or something. i do love that 90s fashion though. ;) The movie is supposed to come out sometime this summer.



i've actually done my homework as far as this next book into movie goes.
It's the trailer for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. i've read this book and seen the original Swedish movie version. This version stars Rooney Mara and my homeboy Daniel Craig. This particular trailer looks super action-packed. i had probs with the book because, in my opinion, it was NOT super action-packed. It was mainly like reading about someone drinking coffee and researching. i know, bring me my defibrillator. i'll probably end up watching this one but not at the theater. i'll probably just Netflix it. Although i do love me some Daniel Craig. And if it's anything like the book or the other movie there is a good chance that he might be a little nekkid! The movie should be out around Christmastime. Cos nothing says Happy Birthday to our Savior like rape and a murder mystery.  



i'll finish this post with my favorite kind of book into movie news: HARRY POTTER!!!
First off, as i'm sure all my fellow PottHeads know, there's this. Which is ultra mysterious and totally awesome. It's Pottermore! Which is..... well i don't know what it is. When you go to the website and click on the owls it leads you to this YouTube video, which is a countdown to....... something. JK Rowling is gonna make some kind of announcement. It says that the owls are gathering. What are they gathering for? i have no idea. But i'm excited as fuck to find out!!!
And lastly, here it is y'all! Probably the last Harry Potter trailer EVER! *sob*



God i can't wait to see this movie! This trailer literally gave me goosebumps. i have a feeling that this will be the best Harry Potter movie ever!
July 15th, y'all. We don't have to wait too much longer. It'll be sad too though because this one is the last one. No more Harry Potter. But damnit it looks so good! Let's watch that trailer again. And cry like a ginormous wizard-loving baby.

M.I.Bloggy.A

Hey y'all. If you follow me on Twitter then you know that i'm in the process of moving. That being said, i have never moved before and thus didn't know all the shizz that goes into it. There's packing and unpacking and hauling and unhauling and painting and setting everything up the way you want it and having cable/internet installed and just a laundry list of other stuff that has me pretty much EXHAUSTED at the end of the day.
So as much as it pains me, i may be taking a brief hiatus this month so that i can get settled.
Right now i'm not sure if i'll have The Super Nostalgic Book Flashback Challenge or The TBR Back Burner Challenge ready for this month. i've only read one Flashback Challenge book so far. i just don't have the time to sit down for extended periods of time to read and when i do get the time i'm dog-tired and just want to sleep. So this month might not be as review-y as i'd like it to be but i promise i'll get my shit together next month.
Please try to be patient with my ass.

Moving: when it doesn't pay to be book nerdy.
(And that's not even half of my books.)

P.S. That's my awesome bean bag chair in the left corner in case you were wondering what that giant blue slouchy thing was. :)

You Are Cordially Invited To Watch The Trailer For Breaking Dawn Part 1

Behold, y'all: the trailer for Breaking Dawn!



So it looks a little more action packed than i remember Breaking Dawn actually being so maybe it'll be good?
i just don't know, y'all. To tell you the truth i haven't been that huge a fan of the movies. For one thing, i can't stand Kristen Stewart. She always looks like she's two seconds away from slitting her own wrists.
On the other hand though, i do like Robert Pattinson and i'm always in the mood for looking at great abs.
i figure since i'm on the fence then maybe some of you guys are too. So lets do what we do best! It's list time! i will now write down the pros and cons for Breaking Dawn after viewing the trailer. We'll start on a positive note:

PROS:
*Sexy times.
*Broken bed sex. Which i guess would count as sexy times. So i guess we should only count that as one pro. 
*Shirtless hotties.
*Vampire babies. That's something new, right?
*There looks to be some kind of rumble.
*This will be the second to last movie.

CONS:
*Kristen Stewart's suicidal face for, i'm sure, nearly 2 hours.
*As impressive as they are, it's kind of sad that awesome abs are all Taylor Lautner brings to the table.
*How totes tacky to address a wedding invitation to "Resident."
*i've had food babies bigger than Kristen Stewart's tum tum. i've got one right now brought on by too much cookie cake as a matter of fact.
*Lest we forget that Jacob is gonna fall in love with a baby. Eww!
*The Cullens bad dye jobs. It's your son/brother's wedding, y'all! Get some Clariol and get to work.

So we're tied. Wait. No we're not. Pro #2 doesn't count because it's basically the same as pro #1. So the cons have it. Which means? What? 
Ok well that didn't really help me at all. 
Lets get real a sec, ok. i'm totally gonna see this movie because i've seen 1-3 and i'm no quitter! However, my inane devotion doesn't guarantee that Breaking Dawn will be worth a shit. Guess i'll just have to wait til November 18th and see if all this vamp on virgin bed breaking sex- baby making- abs o' steel hoopla is actually worth it.

What do you guys think of the trailer? Excited for the fourth installment or had enough of the whole franchise? Dish your shizz any way you like in the comments!

Know The Snow (And Other Hunger Games Movie News)

Today we got another big piece of casting news for The Hunger Games movie! Donald Sutherland will play the evil President Snow. i never really thought of him as a possibility but now that i'm kinda forced to since he'll be playing him and whatnot, i gotta tell ya, i don't hate it. In fact i think he pulls off that whole charming yet kinda creepy vibe really well. So i think that he'll make a great addition to the cast.

In other casting news, Nelson Ascencio has been cast to play Flavius while the role of Venia goes to Kimiko Gelman. The Avox girl whom Katniss meets in the Capitol has also been cast. She'll be played by Amber Chaney.

And lastly, here are some ALLEGED photos of Jennifer Lawrence from the Hunger Games set. She's wearing a blue dress which i find a little odd cos i don't really remember Katniss wearing dresses except when designed by Cinna. And this one looks kinda Dorothy Gale to me. Prim (or the actress that plays her) looks to be in one of the pics so i'm assuming it's when they were still together in District 12. WAiT A FUCKiNG MiNUTE! Didn't Katniss borrow a dress from her mother when she was setting out for the Capitol? Am i just making this up? Remembering it wrong? Damnit, i need to read these books again! 

Well what do you think of our President? The other characters? And what about those ALLEGED photos? Dish it up in the comments section, guys.  

The Super Nostalgic Book Flashback Challenge: Round 5 Part 2 Reviews

Shit has been going down in Stoneybrook, y'all. Mysterious shit. And who better to solve a mystery than a group of baby-sitters who fancy themselves detectives. And us! Lets help the BSC get to the bottom of thangs!

EvilEva reviews...... The Baby-Sitters Club Mystery #19: Kristy and the Missing Fortune by Ann M. Martin.

Circa: 1995.

Dissecting The Cover:
Because you can judge a book by its cover!
*The faces say so much on the cover of this one. Lets break it down mug by mug:
-Claudia: "Um, y'all, don't hate me but I've been holding the map upsidedown this whole time. The only treasure here is my fringe-y jacket."
-Jessi: "You mean I dug this tiny hole for nothing?!?! Bitch, I'ma hit you in the face with this trowel."
-Kristy: "Don't worry, Jessi, for I of course have a great idea. I'll dig your puny hole deeper and then we can shove Claudia's soon to be lifeless body in it."
*P.S. Kristy, if you're trying to sneak around unseen in the middle of the night (or 10pm) you might wanna choose something a little less vibrant than that bright ass red turtleneck and hat that you're wearing.

Lets Review:
One wintry blahbiddy-blah day, Kristy finds a book in Watson's library about Ye Olde Stoneybrook and finds the name Christina Thomas in it. Which is totally cray cray cos it is so close to Kristy Thomas it is UNBELIEVABLE!
Turns out Christina Thomas disappeared like forever ago and took her inheritance with her. Where did she go? No one knows. That's why this is a MYSTERY!
So because this woman's name is so close to her own (and because her greedy ass is hoping to find the missing fortune) Kristy starts researching Christina's life. 
Soon Kristy finds out that Christina's home and the arboretum that Jessi is coincidentally trying to save are one and the same! So the girls recruit the rest of the BSC to help them dig up the flowerbeds so they can find the treasure and then use the money to save the arboretum. 
But all they find is a box full of not money. But Christina did leave behind the lease to the property containing the arboretum. She left the land to the town of Stoneybrook! So now the developers that were trying to buy the land to put up apartments can suck it! The arboretum is here to stay even though no one even knew it was here in the first place. So now we can go back to not enjoying these flowers all year long! And it's all thanks to Kristy and her nosy tendencies! 

Say Whaaat!?!:
And the most ridiculous line in the entire book goes to...
Kristy, for this gem about how she will make her millions since they were unable to find the treasure:

"I guess I'll have to make my millions by baby-sitting instead!"

Yeah. From one baby-sitter to another--- good luck with that, sister.

The Fashion!:
Please enjoy this description of Claudia's stakeout outfit:

She was wearing black jeans, short black cowboy boots, and a black suede jacket with fringe along the back and arms and silver buttons that looked like those old Indian-head nickels.

Even while technically committing a crime Claudia Kishi does NOT do inconspicuous.
And I know that you're dying to know what Claud wore to the arboretum celebration:

Claudia was wearing a tuxedo, with a huge pink rose in her lapel.

I.... I don't even know what to say. Every time a Claudia ensemble is described it's like a gift from Baby Jesus himself. I just love it! 

Bonus Shizz!:
OMG! There is an ad for The Baby-Sitters Club Mystery Game! You have to use the special Mystery Case card to pick WHO did it, WHAT was involved, WHY it happened, and WHERE it happened. Then dial secret words on your Mystery Wheels to add to the story! Travel around the Stoneybrook map gameboard to uncover your friend's secret word clues! Finish four baby-sitting jobs and find out all the words to win. 
Idon't even remotely know what the fuck ANY of that means but.... I WANTS it!



EvilEva reviews...... The Baby-Sitters Club Super Mystery #2: Baby-Sitters Beware by Ann M. Martin. 
Circa: 1995.

Dissecting The Cover:
*This isn't any ordinary mystery--- It's a Super Mystery!
*There's a girl I'm guessing to be Kristy cos she's got a fucking turtleneck on, and a girl who I imagine is Stacey because of her wavy, voluminous, blonde hair, and they are scared, y'all. They're making gasp-y faces while clutching a little boy. It should be noted that the little boy is looking in the complete opposite direction as the girls. So this little idiot isn't even looking at what he's supposed to be scared of. 
*There's a creep wearing a black leather jacket, black knit hat and black leather gloves. So their stalker is OJ Simpson? Sorry. I always think of OJ when I see black leather gloves. Maybe he could get some kind of endorsement deal. You know, when he gets out of prison. And if there's a glove company that would want to hire a spokesperson/murderer. 
*The tagline reads: 

Someone's stalking the BSC!

God what a tedious job that must be. Hey look they're.... baby-sitting.... again.

Lets Review:
Oh my God, y'all, we get to go skiing at Shadow Lake! Doesn't that sound like a shit ton of fun?!?! But uh oh. All of a sudden totally not fun stuff starts happening to the BSC.
Like Stacey nearly gets her ass run over!
Kristy has a rock thrown through her window and someone spray paints a threatening message on her door!
Someone even sets Claudia's trash cans on fire!
However, while all this shizz is super scary, the girls refuse to let it ruin their trip to Shadow Lake.
That is until they start getting full-on stalked there to!
Stacey gets stuck on the chairlift!
Kristy's skis get broken and placed in a menacing fashion!
And Claudia nearly falls down a dangerous ski slope!
Meanwhile, back in Stoneybrook, Mary Anne and the less important members of the BSC, namely Mallory, Jessi, Logan and Shannon, are trying to figure out who in the world could be so pissed at the BSC that they would vaguely, semi, not really try to kill them.
All signs point to Karl Tate, a no good dognapper that the BSC helped send to prison.
But as it turns out it isn't Karl Tate. It's his son Woodie! He's beyond pissed off at the girls for sending his dad to prison and making their family *shudder* poor. Now he's gonna like kill or rape or just yell and wildly gesticulate at them. Oh noes! We need to tell the girls they're in an assload of trouble. But the phones are down! And there's a blizzard!
It's ok though cos eventually Nancy Drew enthusiast, Claudia, figures it out and Woodie falls in a frozen-over lake. The cops fish his ass out and take him to jail. 
Kristy, Claudia, Stacey and Abby return to Stoneybrook and the BSC, safe to meddle in other peoples lives once more. Yay! 

Say Whaaat!?!:
And the most ridiculous line in the entire book goes to...
Claudia, for uttering these words about a man whose home was broken into but he denied it and didn't allow the cops to investigate his house:

"Maybe he has something inside the house he doesn't want the police to see," Claudia suggested. "Like... like stolen art."

While the art thief ratio is right up there with the divorced parents ratio in Stoneybrook, I'm fairly certain you are wrong on this one, Claud. He's probably just got a meth lab or something in there. Or maybe he's one of those people that grow marijuana in his closet. Either way, Nancy Drew would be ashamed of you for that suggestion.
And also to Mary Anne, for being a dumbass:

"Have you and, uh, James, been bothering me and my friends? I mean, two of my friends saw you, and we're all members of a club together, the Baby-Sitters Club, and some strange things have been happening to us, and I wondered..."

Mary Anne, you are so stupid. What kind of idiot would go up to someone as they're being cuffed and taken to a police car, and basically say "Uh, hey, my friends saw you commit that crime and scary shit has been happening to us ever since so I was wondering if you were the one trying to scare us and if you weren't well I've just given you all the information you'll need if you'd like to seek your revenge on us in the future."
Nancy Drew would spit in your face, Mary Anne.

Those Were The Days:
Here's a new category for the Super Nostalgic Book Flashback Challenge. I found  something that I semi-squealed with delight over when I read it cos it took me back to my childhood:

That day we decided to make cookies. (But Shea, who is nine, and Jackie weren't calling them cookies. They were calling them Edible Slammers, after their Pogs and Slammers games---

OMG! I LOVED playing pogs! I probably had a hundred of them. Sparkly, holographic, glittery! They were very popular with me and my friends. I still have most of them in my Keorppi pencil box, including my Hypno Slammer which is An Official Bart Simpson Fun Toy and which won me many a pog battle!

Bonus Shizz!:
This book was written from the different POVs of all the baby-sitters. Thus I was finally introduced to Abby Stevenson. Up until now I hadn't come across her in my BSC dealings. What do I think of Abby? Well. I hate her. She's like the worst character in the BSC universe. I don't think I'll be checking out any Abby books from the library. In fact, I'd kinda rather jump into the frozen-over lake with criminal dipshit Woodie.

That's all the nostalgia I can cram into this month. Be sure to come back next month when I'll be getting my Christopher Pike on!  

Supernatural Shakedown: Season 6 Episode 22 OR Sams I Am

It's Friday night. It's 9 o clock. So sit your Ass-butt down and lets watch some Supernatural!

Drink-Along!

Episode #22: The Man Who Knew Too Much.
Previously on Supernatural...
Shit. Went. Down. Lisa and Ben no longer remember Dean. Balthy's on Team Winchester and working as a double agent against Cass. Cass and Crowley are still working together to find purgatory but you can tell they're starting to get on each others nerves and something is about to give in that relationship. And we were introduced to a horror novel writer named H.P. Lovecraft who opened a portal and caused a lot of people to die and might have known where to find purgatory. The thing he let out of the portal? It was Bobby's friend Ellie. She's from purgatory and has been trying to keep that door shut for thousands of years. And Cass just kidnapped her.

Now...
It's Blair Witch Sammy!
It's like shaky camera angles. What is going on?
The police are after him. Sam hides in an alley.
He breaks into the back of a bar. There's some chick working there. Sam is super flustered.
The bar chippy asks Sam what his name is. Sam says he doesn't know. He can't remember anything.
Glass shattering. Supernatural logo. Showtime!

Sam says that he woke up on a park bench (lucky park bench!), that the cops tried to wake him but he knocked their asses out.

He tells Bar Chippy that he feels like there's somewhere he's supposed to be. Sam finds a book on a shelf. It's by Lovecraft.

Sam has mini-flashbacks.

Bar Chippy is super concerned about Sam.

Sam sees some motel in his flashes. He looks it up on the internet and finds out it's only two towns over.

Bar Chippy says that she'll drive him as he is freaking her the fuck out with his flustered flashbackery.

They drive to the motel. Sam suddenly knows which room he would pick.

They go to that room and Sam picks the lock with Bar Chippy's credit card.

Visa--- It's everywhere you wanna be!

There are newspaper clippings all over the walls. Bar Chippy finds all of Sam's various alias badges, licences, etc.

There's a clipping with Ellie's picture on it. It says that she's missing.

Sam has a flash and falls to the floor.

Now he's with Dean and Bobby walking down an alley somewhere.            

They find Ellie. She's bleeding.

It seems to open up purgatory they'll need one cup virgin's blood (not extra virgin-just virgin.) and one cup purgatory native's blood. Mix well and then open purgatory carefully.

So someone has already succeeded in getting their hands on purgatory native's blood. So virgins beware!

Aw. Ellie dies.

Cass appears. He tells them to go home so he can deal with Raphael.

Cass tells them that he'll save Sam but only if they stand down. Dean's all save Sam from what.

Cass touches Sam's beautiful head. Sam is out.

Sam is back with Bar Chippy. He remembers Bobby's name and looks him up in a book to find his address.

Bar Chippy says mm-kay this is where i get off.

Sam finds the Impala keys but Bar Chippy doesn't feel right about letting him just take off in his fainty state. Ok, look Bar Chippy, you better not be angling to try to sleep with my boo or shit is gonna get intense. You hear me?!?

All of a sudden someone takes a shot at them!

Holy shizz! It's Sam!

But now Sam is in Bobby's panic room unconscious.

Dean is calling his name but Sam is unresponsive. What the fuck is going on?!?!?

Commercial break.

Bobby says that Cass let down the dam in Sam's head and now it's all helled up in his noggin.

Dean's gonna stay with Sam and Bobby is gonna find Cass.

Sam is back in the Impala with Bar Chippy whose voice sounds like Sophia Bush's and who best not be putting the moves on my man. Bar Chippy is uber concerned/scared.

Dean shines a light in comatose Sam's eye.

The other Sam reacts by flinching and slamming on the brake. He gets out of the car. Suddenly it's daytime. Bar Chippy says that it's been daytime the entire time they've been out gallivanting. 

Suddenly Sam sees something in the woods at the side of the road. He tells Bar Chippy to get back in the car.

Sam goes to the trunk and finds the Winchester arsenal. He gets a gun and heads into the woods.

He's hunting....... himself?

This Sam takes the gun from the Original Sam. He explains that Sam is dreaming. When Cass took down his hell wall he fell to pieces. Oh this is Soulless Sam.

Soulless Sam is making fun of my baby!

Original Sam hauls ass. Soulless Sam shoots at him.

It's some serious Sam-on-Sam violence going on.

Original Sam hides behind a tree.

Soulless Sam shoots behind the tree. But it was just Original Sam's jacket.

Now Original Sam is behind Soulless Sam and he shoots him.

Soulless Sam says if you think i'm bad wait til you meet the other one. Soulless Sam is now kaput.

Smoky stuff gets all up in Original Sam.

Back in the panic room, Sam starts twitching.

Now back to Original Sam. He's back to the Impala and Bar Chippy. He tells her that he remembers her.

Flashback! A demon has Bar Chippy. The demon is taunting Sam with Bar Chippy thinking that Sam won't shoot him while he uses Bar Chippy as a human shield. 

But Sam shoots her and tells the demon that he's lost his leverage. 

Back to the side of the road. Bar Chippy has blood all on her shirt now. She told Sam to leave it alone. 

Back to the panic room. Balthy's here with info about Crowley. He's quickly becoming my new fave angel. (You had your chance, Cass!) 

Now on to The Double C Angel/Demon Duo. Crowley gives Cass the virgin blood/purgatory native blood cocktail. 

Cass is rethinking their arrangement. He's thinking perhaps Crowley shouldn't get anything. 

Crowley's all whaaaaaa?!?!? 

Cass tells Crowley to either flee or die. So Crowley flees. 

Now Sam is in some creepy candlelit room. There's someone at a desk. 

It's another Sam! And he's all bloody!

Original Sam asks which Sam this is.

Thing 2 says he's the Sam that remembers hell.

Now for another commercial.

Bobby's packing up his hunting equipment.

Back in the panic room Dean leaves Sam a piece of paper with where he and Bobby will be along with a gun next to him. Dean leaves to go after Crowley.

Back to the Sams. Hell Sam is the last piece. Sam has to piece himself back together so he can wake up. He has to listen to what Hell Sam has to tell him.

Hell Sam picks up a knife.

Original Sam holds up his gun. Hell Sam tells him he's not gonna fight him and hands him the knife.

Original Sam knifes Hell Sam. Blue smoky stuff abounds.

Sam thrashes around back at the panic room.

Cass calls Balthy. He tells him that Dean is on his way. It seems they have a Judas in their midst. Balthy tries to pretend he knows shit-all.

Cass tells Balthy that it's a difficult time because all of his friends are turning against him.

Then he stabs Balthy in the back! Literally! Balthy angel-explodes. Aw. Pour one out for Balthy y'all. He was a good badass angel.

Dean and Bobby are staking out the place where Crowley and Cass are supposed to be. There are angels on the lookout. 

Suddenly there's a noise. Look, Dementors! 

Dean and Bobby jump in the Impala. 

The impact of the Dementors knocks the Impala upside down.

Dementors descend on Cass' hideout.

Crowley comes in.

Cass puts his hand on Crowley's head trying to get rid of him but it doesn't work.

Crowley's made a new bestie that offers him a certain amount of protection.

Enter Raphael in his black lady suit.

Cass pulls a Scooby rut-row.

More commercials.

Cass is all Raph, you work with demons now?

Raph's all you're doing it. It looked like fun.

So Crowley has made a deal with Raphael.

Crowley tells Cass he has two options- flee or die.

So Cass throws Crowley the blood cocktail and leaves.

Crowley starts Latin-chantin'.

Bobby and Dean enter. They throw a dagger at Raphael but she catches it and sends Bobby crashing down the stairs and Dean goes flying and crashes to the floor.

Sam sees the car and has a hell brain flash.

Crowley finishes his chant but nothing happens.

Cass appears. Ha ha suckas! Cass gave y'all the wrong blood!

Dean and Bobby get up.

Raphael tells Cass to quit playing. Crowley tells Raphael that Cass' jar is empty and he bets that Cass' chant went a lot better than theirs did.

Cass starts glowing all golden-y.

And yet more commercials.

Everyone is super impressed with Cass' golden glow.

Crowley gets the fuck outta there.

Raphael is getting pretty scared.

Holy shit! Cass just snapped his fingers and completely killed Raphael!

Cass says see i saved you, Dean.

Dean tells Cass they need to get all those souls outta him pronto before he pops.

Cass says that Raphael had a lot of followers. He has to punish them all severely now.

Dean pleads with Cass to get rid of the soul juice.

Cass tells Dean he's not his family, that he has no family.

Sam stabs Cass in the back with the angel blade.

Cass just takes it out. He tells them it won't work cos he's not an angel anymore.

He's the new God. And if they don't bow down and profess their love for him he'll have to destroy them.

Bobby's all huh?

Dean's all whaaaa?

Sam's all say what now?

Cass looks smug with his recent promotion.

And that's it, y'all. That's the end of season 6. Holy shizz! Cass is totes going on a power trip. What does this mean for season 7? Is Cass gonna be a baddie now? Are we gonna have to take him down next season? We'll have to find out in the fall. See you then, Superfans!

Supernatural Shakedown: Season 6 Episode 21 OR Everybody Do The Limbo ;)

It's Friday night. It's 9 o clock. So sit your Ass-butt down and lets watch some Supernatural!

Drink-Along!

Episode #21: Let It Bleed.
Previously on Supernatural...
CASS BETRAYED US!!! He's been working with Crowley (who, p.s. IS ALIVE!) trying to find purgatory. They're all about the souls, people.
We've had a massive death toll this season--- Mama=Gone. Gramps=Done for. Annoying Girl Cousin=See ya. Rufus=*sniff* Pour one out, y'all. Crowley=Thought to be kaput but then CASS BETRAYED US!!! Dean=For a hot second when he was trying to get Sammy's soul back. Ellen and Jo=Brought back but dead again. Lenore our Friendly Neighborhood Vampire=Deader.
There's unrest in heaven. You're either Team Cass or Team Raphael. Looks like it's about to get apocalyptic in this bitch. Again. And Sam might get a little cray cray cos i think his soul walls might be a-crumblin'.

Now...
It's March 15th, 1937. It was a dark and stormy night and some dude is typing on a typewriter.
The door creaks open. Typewriter dude goes for his gun.
He opens the door further. No one is there so he closes the door and locks it and then drinks.
Something crashes through his window.
Typewriter dude says "We didn't know. i'm sorry."
And now typewriter dude gets killed.
Glass shattering. Supernatural logo. Showtime!

We're at Bobby's. Cass has stolen a journal from Bobby's house. The journal belonged to an H.P. Lovecraft. He was a horror story writer. He may have known something about purgatory. But we'll never know cos Cass is a thief!

At Lisa's house. She's got a new boyfriend.
OMG, someone just kicked the door in.
Ben hauls ass upstairs. Lisa gets grabbed.
Well Lisa had a new boyfriend. That thing just snapped his neck.
Ben heads for his room and calls Dean. Dean tells him to jump out the window. Any broken bones will be better than whatever is in the house will do to him.
Ben drops the phone. Dean tells him that he's on his way.
Dean calls Ben's name. Crowley answers instead. Oh shit!
Commercial time.
Ooh a preview for The Secret Circle! Another L.J. Smith series made into a TV show. Will it be as good as The Vampire Diaries?

Dean tells Crowley to let Ben and Lisa go.
Crowley tells Dean he's gonna keep Lisa and Ben until Dean agrees to back off.
Then he hangs up.
Uh HELLO!, like Dean would ever back off after finding out about something like that. 
Dean tells Sam and Bobby the bad news.
He's going after them. He tells Sam and Bobby to take care of the Lovecraft bidness. 
But Sam says he's going with him. 
So. How are they gonna find Crowley? 
Lets summon Balthy! 
Sam and Dean tell Balthy that Cass is a doublecrosser. They want Balthy to help them find Crowley. 
Balthy exits stage left. 
Sam suggests maybe possibly calling Cass. Dean is all oh hell no. 
Back to Bobby. And Bobby is all cleaned up, y'all. He's at some Lovecraft nerd's house pumping him for Lovecraft info about a certain date.
Lovecraft Lover tells Bobby that a man sounding a lot like Cass asked him about the same day.
On that day Lovecraft had a dinner party. They were gonna open a portal to see what else was out there.
Lovecraft Lover had letters about the dinner party but they have mysteriously disappeared.
Bobby tells Lovecraft Lover to call him if he finds them and leaves the Lovecraft Lover's nerdy abode.
Bobby calls Sam with the Lovecraft info and tells him that all the dinner guests either died or disappeared within a year but the maid's 9 year old son is still alive and may know something. So Bobby is going to talk to him.
On to Dean. He's in some type of warehouse or somewhere warehouse-y looking and he's killing demons to try to find Crowley's location.
Sam wants to take over cos Dean is kinda going cray cray. But Dean wants to do it himself.
So Sam goes outside and tries to contact Cass. 
Cass is there but in his invisibility trench. Sam walks away. 
Cass is at Crowley's. Cass didn't know that Crowley took Lisa and Ben. He wants to know where Crowley has stashed them but Crowley ain't talking. He tells Cass to go find purgatory. 
Cass is getting an angel message. He goes to meet with Balthy. 
Balthy wants to know if Cass was super really working with Crowley. 
Apparently if Cass finds purgatory and soaks up all those souls he could explode and take half the planet with him. 
However, Cass says this isn't gonna happen. 
Well. Fine then. Balthy's in.
Back to Bobby's research project.
He's visiting a nuthouse.
Bobby is interviewing the maid's son from the dinner party but he's an old man now.
He tells Bobby that that night at the party, Lovecraft and the guests opened a door and something came out. It was invisible. No one else could see it. But the maid's son could. It went in his mother and she disappeared. Then one by one the guests started dying.
Bobby says that he's sorry about what happened to his mom. The old guy asks if Bobby would like to see a pic of her and hands it to him.
Bobby's OMGing.
Back to Dean's Interrogation Room Of Doom.
Dean is giving the whatfor to a demon.
The demon breaks through his restraints and sends Dean flying. He crashes into a van. (ok seriously. Where the hell is Dean?) The demon advances on Dean but Cass pops up and kills the demon.
Here are some more commercials.

Dean tells Cass that he didn't ask for his help.
Cass tells Dean that he had no idea that Crowley would take Lisa and Ben.
Dean says that he doesn't trust a word outta Cass' mouth now.
Cass promises that he'll find Lisa and Ben and bring them back. And he asks Dean to stand down.
But Dean is so not gonna stop until he finds Lisa and Ben and gets rid of Crowley.
Cass leaves.
Back to Bobby's adventure.
Bobby's at a cabin in the woods. He knocks on the door. Ellie answers the door. (Ivy from Passions, remember?)
Bobby tells Ellie that he knows who she is. Would you mind filling the rest of us in, Bobby?
She's the dame in the picture. The old man's mommy.
Bobby wants to know why Ellie didn't tell him she was from purgatory.
Ellie's all yeah my bad.
Ellie has been trying to keep the door to purgatory closed. Bobby tells her that Cass is gonna come after her.
Back to Sam, pouring himself a drink. Perhaps he's playing our drinking game. ;)
Enter Balthy.  He tells Sam that he's on Team Winchester now cos Cass is a big ol' lying liarface that lies like a dog.
Dean's here.
Balthy says he asked Cass some questions and didn't like the answers he got. So now he'll be their double agent. He says that he found where Crowley is keeping Lisa and Ben.
Angel powers activate! Balthy takes them to Crowley's hideout. And much like a banana, Balthy splits.
Dean ganks a demon. The boys split up.
Corridors of Doom! Oh how we've missed you!
Oh no! Some demon jacks Sam. They lock him in some kind of cave.
Lisa and Ben are tied up in a room. Two demons walk in.
Suddenly there's a commotion in the Corridors of Doom.
The demons go to check it out. It's Dean!
He kicks some demon ass and unties Lisa and Ben.
But Lisa has a knife! And she's pointing it at Ben's throat! And she says this brat isn't going anywhere!
Damn you, commercials!
Ooh. On second thought yay commercials. It's the trailer for the new show Ringer starring none other than Buffy herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar! Can't wait for that one. i'm gonna post all the trailers for the upcoming shows that i'm excited about soon so stay tuned for that. Now back to the Shakedown.

Lisa is fucking with Ben and Dean. Damn! She is being a huge biatch.
Dean throws holy water in her face. She lets go of Ben.
Dean starts with the Latin-chanting.
Lisa attacks him and grabs his throat.
She knows how to really hurt the boys. She stabs HERSELF! She says if Dean exercises her now then Lisa will just be a dead meatsuit.
Dean finishes the chant anyway. The demon is done for. And now Lisa is in trouble.
Dean tells Ben to get the gun and the knife and to shoot anything that comes at them.
Dean finds Sammy and frees him.
Everyone starts running for the exits so that they can save Lisa.
Sam gets a car and hauls ass to, i guess in normal sitches a hospital, but this is the Winchesters so who knows where they're taking her.
More commercials while Lisa's life hangs in the balance.

Ok. They took her to the hospital.
Dean and Ben look over her. Dean tells Ben he's sorry. Ben leaves. Cass enters.
Dean doesn't want Cass there.
Cass tells Dean that he's not there for him. He puts his hand on Lisa's forehead and heals the shit out of her.
Dean tells him thank you and that he wishes that it changed anything. Cass says he knows.
Dean asks for Cass to give him one more thing.
Cut to Lisa in the hospital bed with Ben in the chair next to her. She's awake!
Ben tells Lisa that they were in a car accident. That she hit her head but she's ok now.
Dean knocks on the door.
Ben asks who are you? WHAT!?!?
Dean tells them that he's the one that hit them with his car. Oh noes!!! Cass erased their memory of Dean! Aww!
Dean leaves. Aw, he's crying, y'all!
Sam is waiting outside the hospital.
Sam doesn't think what Dean had Cass do to Lisa and Ben's memories was right. Dean tells Sam if he mentions them to him again he'll break his nose.
They drive off.
Back to Ellie's cabin. She's walking to her car to get the fuck outs o' here.
Cass is there. He touches her shoulder. And they're gone!

Next time on Supernatural...
It's the final episode of season 6, y'all. Get ready!

More Hunger Games Movie Casting News

So a big decision was made today. Cinna was cast. And who did they get to play him?
Lenny Kravitz.
Wait. What?
Yes i know that his name had been tossed around a few weeks ago as a possible contender for a role in the movie but honestly i thought it was just a rumor. i didn't really think that he would actually get a role. i mean, he's Lenny Kravitz for fuck's sake!
i mean, that's just such a random choice, no? What is going on over at Lionsgate? First the Peeta/Gale debacle and now this! i know one thing, if Lenny rocks his famous dreads i will totes no longer be on Team Cinna!

In other casting news, the role of Peeta's stylist, Portia, will be played by Latarsha Rose. And Octavia, a member of Katniss' prep team, will be played by Brooke Bundy. Here's a pic of those chicks:


i ain't mad about this decision.

 And lastly, here's some interesting news. Claudius Templesmith will be played by Dobby the house elf. Or at least by the guy that voiced him; British actor Toby Jones.

So those are the new cast members (so far) for this week. What do you guys think? (Especially about the Lenny decision.) There are only a few roles left so who do you think we'll see next? Will they announce who will play Madge or Greasy Sae or the Avox girl?
Or will they hit us with the biggie--- President Snow? 
Tell me your dream cast or if you're happy with the reality cast thus far. (Lenny Kravitz? Really?) Dish it up in the comments, people!   

The Super Nostalgic Book Flashback Challenge: Round 5 Part 1 Reviews

It's almost summertime! What better way to celebrate than by taking a road trip to visit our favorite Stoneybrookians! Lets hop in the Junk Bucket and head to Connecticut, y'all!

EvilEva reviews...... The Baby-Sitters Club Special Edition Reader's Request: Logan Bruno, Boy Baby-Sitter by Ann M. Martin.

Circa: 1993.

Dissecting The Cover:
Because you can judge a book by its cover!
*Ooh, this book is a "Reader's Request." Apparently a lot of middle-schoolers wanted to know more about handsomepants Logan Bruno.
*This book is from the early 90s which would explain why Logan seems to be getting his fashion cues from Zack Morris. I mean, shiny white hightop sneakers, a striped Polo-esque shirt, light blue blue jeans? Shouldn't you be out macking on Kelly Kapowski right now?
*Is that one kid wearing Zubaz pants whilst "raising the roof?"
*Um, Logan? You might wanna check on that little girl. I mean, I understand that y'all are enjoying a rousing game of Twister but, to me, her arm looks beyond twisted and verging into broken territory. Unless she's practicing her America's Next Top Model broke-down doll pose. If that's the case then she totally nailed it!
*The tagline reads:

Is Logan too cool for baby-sitting?

Um, unequivocally- NO! No he is not.

Lets Review:
Logan is sick of being teased for totes screwing up last weeks track meet and for being a baby-sitter that also happens to have a penis. So he's semi-stoked when the school's ruffians, The Badd Boyz, take up for him. He starts to hang out with the Boyz but becomes concerned when things start to get a little fishy. Like when kid's lockers are being broken into and their stuff is being stolen.
Then the Badd Boyz find out that Logan knows the man that owns the local music store. And, y'all, they rob that guy! They steal a whole box of Nicky Cash (who is the 90s Stoneybrook equivalent to Justin Bieber) CD's!
Oh noes! And Logan was with them while they did it! Oh noes yet again! And now the Badd Boyz are being, well, bad boys, threatening Logan if he even thinks about ratting them out. When Logan catches wind of the Badd Boyz plan to rob the same music store again, he can't just sit idly by. So Logan goes to the police, they set up a sting operation and catch these evil EiGHTH GRADERS in the act! The Badd Boyz get hauled off to eighth grader prison whatever that is and we learn An Important Lesson: Don't steal and don't join a gang.
But if you're going to steal and the name of your gang has the word bad in it then it would probably behoove you not to filch pussy music unless you want your ass beat by your death metal loving gang leader. Just a suggestion.

Say Whaaat!?!:
And the most ridiculous line in the entire book goes to...
Logan for his description of the Badd Boyz:

The Badd Boyz. I'm serious. That's what these guys call themselves. They're like the junior version of a high school gang. They like to hang out in the shadows of the school, looking bored. Sometimes they smoke cigarettes, sometimes they work on cars belonging to the older gang members.

Is it just me or does this sound like the lamest gang EVER? I'd be interested to know what the initiation is...
"Alright, listen up newbs. Your first task is to take that there candy from that there baby. Careful. He's a biter."

The Fashion!:
Logan on Claudia's "wild" style:

She can make weird clothes look cool. Once she went to school with a rattle in her hair, like a barrette. Another time she wore bell-bottomed pants exactly like ones I've seen in these embarrassing old photos of my parents in college.

Oh Claudia. You never cease to amaze me with your crazy ass fashion ideas.
Now here's Logan describing the Badd Boyz signature look:

Both D and Remo were wearing T-shirts with cigarette packs rolled up in the sleeves.

So they're either gonna cut a bitch or put on a fabulous production of Grease! It is the word after all.

Bonus Shizz!:
We can join the new ONLINE Baby-Sitters Club! OMFG, the BSC is getting all digital on our asses!

EvilEva reviews...... The Baby-Sitters Club #51: Stacey's Ex-Best Friend by Ann M. Martin.
Circa: 1992.

Dissecting The Cover:
*Ha ha, lets make satellites and molecules out of prunes and pretzels! This is equal parts educational and hilarious!
*Claud is rocking a side-pony, y'all!
*The tagline reads:

Is Stacey's friend Laine super mature or just a super snob?

Well considering that she looks like the irritated teacher that's forced to deal with these kid's prune/pretzel shenanigans even though she's the same age, my vote is for super snob.

Lets Review:
Stacey is so psyched that her New York bestie Laine, is coming to Stoneybrook for a visit. They are going to have sooo much fun! Except when Laine finally arrives she acts like a huge diva-bitch that's too good for sleepovers, Stoneybrook and the BSC! Cos Laine has changed, y'all. She has a BOYFRIEND! And he's 15! And she drinks seltzer now. Seltzer! That's practically vodka! Stacey's not so sure she's down with this new Laine that seems juiced up on Haterade. And Laine makes things even worse when she totally ruins the Valentine's Day dance by being a snobby snot to her date Pete whom we'll never hear about again so you can see why we care so deeply about his hurt feelings. So Stacey does the only logical thing there is to do--- kick girlfriend to the curb. The curb of New York! Where she belongs!
Now Stacey can have fun with her real friends. Hooray! Lets celebrate with a Valentine's party in a barn!

Say Whaaat!?!:
And the most ridiculous line in the entire book goes to...
Stacey when describing Laine's outfit when they pick her up at the train station:

She was hard to miss, considering she was wearing a jean coat with a fur collar (I sincerely hoped the fur was fake), black capri pants edged in lace, very chic black ankle boots, and on her head, a brilliant red over-sized beret.

Let me get this shit straight, Stace. Claudia can wear A RATTLE as a barrette but a jean jacket with a fur collar if too crazazee for you to comprehend? Perhaps you have been in Stoneybrook too long.

The Fashion!:
This is the "perfect" outfit Stacey wore to pick up Laine:

---a purple shirtwaist top over flowered leggings, my cowboy boots, a purple hair ornament made from shoelaces, and long dangly silver earrings.

OMG, do y'all remember those shoelace hairbows?! Aw. Pour one out for the shoelace hairbows.

Bonus Shizz!:
It's your 500th chance to join The Baby-Sitters Club Fan Club! You get a camera, a photo album, a diary, note cards, stickers, pencils, posters, official BSC newsletters, keepsake shipper, oh and uh Bragging Rights! For the low price of $8.95 (plus $2 shipping and handling.)
Ooh, there's a new ad! It's for G*I*R*L magazine. It's where you can get the scoop on The Baby-Sitters Club, plus you can enjoy articles on handling stress, turning dreams into great careers, making and keeping best friends, and the latest in movies, books, music and sports! 6 issues for only $15!
Goddamnit! This special offer ends July 1, 1996!
I'm 15 years too late. I'm a whole Laine's boyfriend too late. Ugh!

Well, I hope you enjoyed Part 1 of this months nostagia and flashbackery fun. Be sure to check back soon for Part 2 in which I will review some BSC Mysteries!