The Real Children of the Real Housewives...

I left New York City this weekend after a quick trip to visit some friends and to remember what subways are like, immediately got sick on the flight home and spent the last two days enjoying marathons of The Real Housewives of New York City.

I couldn't help but notice how adult all of the children are.

The show features adults who fly around and do stupid things and then there are these kids, who actually care about their school work, trying to succeed in sports, and generally look insulted by their parents' actions. I mean these parents put "embarrassing" on the terrorist color spectrum.

It one episode, we watch 'the Countess' go downtown to hang out with her 'hip' 22 year old friend at a bar. Its painful to watch as she buys stupid necklaces and looks confused as she desperately tries to look "young". Then we watch as her children ask her not to stay out late, pick out her outfit and then not listen to their housekeeper (who I hope gets paid A LOT).

No wonder Victoria wants out to boarding school with a riding program and Noel is dealing with her mother's attempts to be hip by trying to make her stay home. I am pretty sure his recent break dancing lessons are because 'The Countess' caught "So you think you can dance?" on TV.

Ramona's child Avery is my personal favorite. Avery watches as her mother wears the worst clothing: bras and mini skirts, bad bikinis. She watches as her mother alienates herself from her "friends". She watches as her mother tries to be hip. Its just painful.

Its ok, Avery. Your mother's just addict to coke. Does that help?

A good old honest thumbs up

I don't usually reread books but I do reread the Alanna Series by Tamora Pierce every two to three years.

This is a book that I discovered when I was a tween and have loved ever since. Occasionally I meet a friend or read a facebook page that mentions the series and I get all giddy inside: I have found another fan!!

The book is wonderful, inspiring, and creates a realistic fantasy world. Its about a girl who pretended to be a boy so she can become a knight.

Tamora Pierce has written some many extensions to the world and usually I buy the next book the first day it comes out.

And the BEST PART is they HAVEN'T made a movie of it yet. They haven't ruined it by having some new child star bounce on screen. Although if they offered me the part of older Kel in her later series "Protector of the Small" I would say YES!!

Miley Cryus's New Single

Its not a scandal, its just music: Miley Cryus released a new single called "7 Things" on ElvisDuran.com.

The Chorus features the line: "The 7 Things I hate about you". I can only assume this is related to "10 Things I hate about you" which was based off the Shakespearian tale "Taming of the Shrew"...Therefore, by some twisted logic, Miley Cryus just produced a song which dumbed down Shakespeare even more.

I can only assume we will have "5 Things I hate about you" Then "3 things I hate about you" and then "1 Think I hate about you" and then "I don't hate you, its me, I hate myself".

All of which will correspond to a different shortened, edited, put into modern day language Shakespearian play.

Way to go, Miley. You ruined Shakespeare.

Gossip Girl's newest cast member

Gossip Girl's newest cast member Michelle Trachtenberg has one of those last names that an agent in the 80's would have convinced her to change. I personally am glad she didn't cave and even more glad for her resume of wonders.

I remember when she bounded straight on the wonderful wacky Nick show "Pete and Pete" and then it was "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" still capturing the hearts of millions of nerds and geeks.

And just when I thought crappy movies were just for TV, she glided her way on screen with the movie "Ice Princess", which I am convinced was written based solely for the tag lines: From Scholastic to Fantastic! and Mathlete to Athlete!! Genius!!

The movie featured everything a crappy family movie should: a choice between two lives: the one your mother wants and the one you want, one big event at the end, a cute boy who only wants to kiss you and stand up for you when your parents are oddly harsh. It was magically and I would glad accept a signed poster.

And now she is the evil Georgina Sparks on Gossip Girl, the CW show based on the Tween novel series of the same name. She is just pure evil, trying to ruin the lives of everyone. I can't hate her because I love her too much in Ice Princess, In Pete and Pete, In Buffy. Yet some how its too hard to watch her destroy others.