So over at my blog I am getting started Blogging Eclipse, check it out. Meanwhile, we wrapped up New Moon last week. The directory, containing most of the notable posts, is here.

The whole site is redesigned and everything, so if you haven’t been there in a while, go check it out.

I suppose it only makes sense that in a story built on blunders of an ever increasing magnitude, sooner or later we would get one monstrous fuck-up, a boner for the ages, in which Alice, Jacob, Bella, and Edward all share the blame (though I mostly blame Jacob). And it only makes sense that said ultimate boner would reflect the Romeo & Juliet motif by copying Romeo & Juliet exactly. Are we really going to let S. Meyer get away with taking this post-modern awareness of Romeo & Juliet all the way up to the water’s edge, only to ditch it when it becomes inconvenient? When is Alice going to turn to Bella and Jacob and say, “We’re all a bunch of fucking morons!”

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“Speaking of which,” Alice says, “would you like to explain to me how you’re alive?” Bella, who for weeks has been LITERALLY incapable of putting two and two together, figures out immediately that Alice saw her on the cliff. I’m not complaining that Bella is suddenly operating at normal human intelligence levels again so much as I am still complaining about what a dipshit she was for the last few chapters. Did she sustain a head injury on the motorcycle a few weeks ago?

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“She wakes up screaming, but Charlie is so used to it by now that he doesn’t come in to check. Probably not a good thing, given the Victoria situation. Someday she’ll scream and really need it, and help won’t come. Like that old story about the boy who cried something. What was it? ‘The Boy Who Cried Tiger’? I can’t remember.”

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