Where the Wild Bitch is

Everyone is excited for the Where The Wild Things Are movie, and it will be interesting no doubt, but the original books popularity is built on a mountain of slave labor. There is nothing intrinsically special, unique or even good about the text of the book. It’s only 9 sentences for Christ sake – how good can 9 sentences be even when at the most scholarly and brilliant? The books popularity comes 100% from the illustrations. We all liked the book for the same reason we liked Dr Seuss: the ILLUSTRATIONS. Every Charlie Brown cartoon was nothing special either. We love the Peanuts specials for the music and we love Wild Things for the pictures. lets be honest.

That’s what I said today on my Facebook status and I got hostile responses reacting as if I had shit all over their childhood by saying the truth. Cara was the most pissed…

And then she deleted me…

Lets..let that all soak in for a moment. I’d just like to reflect on the fact that today someone called me a “hater” and deleted me as a friend because I said the illustrations (not the 9 sentences of of text) are what make Where The Wild Things Are any good and any of us int…erested in the movie.

In other hate-shockers: Big Bird would be unimpressive as a sock puppet and french fries are only good because they’re fried.

Delete away, losers.

UPDATE: Cara sent me a private message on the subject explaining herself and I responded… Note: there will be a moment in reading this where you will not be able to help yourself from going “really?”. the answer is yes. really. this is happening…

In hindsight I would have deleted my use of the word “geez”. I was mimicking her use of it, but I don’t think that was clear and it could have gone away. Her reply makes me unclear whether I’m supposed to hate her now or not…

God dammit… now I’m the jerk if I keep ragging on her cuz she ended on a “take care” note. whatever. she still hurt my feelings by breaking out the razor claws for no legitimate reason.