Friday Funny: How Twilight Should Have Ended

You've had a long week. You deserve to laugh.

 It's time for the Babbling Flow's Friday Funny!!

This has been around for a while, but I think it pairs nicely with last week's Friday Funny (featuring the trailer for Vampire's Suck).

How Twilight Should Have Ended!

Happy Friday! Have a fabulous weekend =)

PS for the record, I don't hate Twilight! I just think the spoofs are funny.

xoxo

♥ me

Friday Funny: Vampires Suck!

You've had a long week. You deserve to laugh.

 It's time for the Babbling Flow's Friday Funny!!

Vampires Suck

Like the Twilight movies or hate them--this movie looks freaking funny. Wanna come with?

Happy Friday!!

Have a fabulous weekend!!

♥ me

A Very Vampire May Giveaway (SIGNED Twilight included!!!)

It's May. It's a GOOD month. Warm weather. Almost pool season. Tans. Spring/summer wardrobe (especially summer dresses, woohoo!) As a girl who lo-o-oves sunshine, I wanted to celebrate! And how better to do that than with YOU guys?

So today, I'm announcing my:

There's EVEN a no strings attached TWIST! 

#1 SIGNED Twilight! 

(and 4 Keepsake Journals in a Collectible Tin)

Hardcover, authentic signature... The whole shebang! 

#2 SIGNED Anne Rice: The Vampire Armand

Hardcover, first edition--The sixth novel in The Vampire Chronicles.
However, from what I've heard because I haven't read it) graphic nature, winners for this must be 18 or older. (Not that I don't think someone younger can handle it, but I'm not a parent and under 18 means not an adult, legally.)

#3 SIGNED Charlaine Harris: 

Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club Dead

The first three in her Sookie Stackhouse series--you know, the ones the show True Blood is based off of!! (ALL three are signed!)

#4 SIGNED Christopher Moore: 

Bloodsucking Fiends, You Suck (A Love Story), Bite Me

His Vampire Trilogy! ALL three are signed! (If you haven't read Christopher Moore before, there's a great article about this trilogy here.)

#5 Bram Stoker's Dracula

AND The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead

Unsigned, unfortunately. But still fun!

And now for the rules, dun dun DUNNN.

Sike. They're EASY!

All you have to do to enter is be a follower and tell me how to contact you on the entry form (link is below).  OH and make sure to rank your preferences for the packages!

Also, US and Canada residents only. Sorry.

Want to increase your chances to win? Lots of ways to do that (though none are required to enter)...

+1 facebook friend me, baby!
+1 follow me on twitter
+2 tweet the contest (make sure to include @saramcclung, so I can track!)
+2 send me some new blog friends
+3 post a link to the contest in your sidebar
+5 write a post about the contest

The contest runs from May 10-June 2nd. Winners will be announced June 3rd!

To enter, fill out this form!

I have extra SIGNED copies of Christopher Moore's Bite Me. So every Friday, for the next three Fridays (May 14, 21, and 28) whoever comments on my Friday Funny post--and leaves me a link to another funny video that I can use in a future post--will be automatically entered to win a copy!

I'll give one away a week, just make sure I know how to get in touch with you! (OH, and if you win one of these, it won't impact your chances to win in the big contest.)


Hmmm... I think that's it! Did I leave anything out?


OH, PS. Just because she's pictured, Piper (one of my beautiful kitties) is NOT included in any of the packages! #sorrytoburstyourbubble

♥ me

Twilight Bashers

"I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has just put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or banana split." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

If you don't like Twilight, that's fine.  Although I absolutely loved the series, I have no problem with you.  Everyone's entitled to their own opinions - even strong ones.

However.  If you're one of those haters who hates Twilight so much that you speak out frequently and vehemently about how much it sucks.  Then yes, I do have a problem with you.  If you're one of those people who, upon hearing someone mention the series, says with superciliousness dripping from your tone, "Oh, please tell me you're not one of those."  (With intent to make Twilight readers feel bad about themselves.)  Then yes, I take serious issue with you.

For the love of God people. Who CARES if you think vampires are stupid? Or if you don't like how Stephanie Meyer writes?  Do you know how many more kids are reading today because of the Twilight series? Why would you ever, ever speak out so forcefully about a series that has created a huge interest in books for a lot of kids who never previously had any desire to read?  Not to mention, you must be little on the inside if you seek whatever power it is you're looking for from putting someone down based on what they enjoy to read.

As a former teacher, I know firsthand that Meyer's series promoted teenage reading.  I saw a LOT of kids reading Twilight - in a school filled with students who hated to read.  I literally had a teenage student, an LD student for that matter who tested at a 5th grade reading level, tell me that she loved Twilight so much that it was the only time she ever chose to read instead of watching TV when she got home.

So, in my opinion, if you go around blogging or facebooking or using any level of communication to make fun of people who read Twilight, you should be ashamed of yourself.  If your hateful words have turned one child away from reading, just one, then you disgust me.

Instead of bashing Meyer's writing ability, you should applaud her for enticing youth away from video games and television and into the literary world.

Now, some people have argued that kids branch out after reading Twilight to reading the classics. I have absolutely no idea if it's true or not.  Also, if you read Twilight and didn't like it and gave it a bad review somewhere, this post is NOT addressed to you.  Unless you went a step further and went out of your way to belittle people who did like it.

As for my love of the novels... Perhaps I'm biased.  I've had a thing for vampires since the good old days of Bunnicula.  (Come on, how could you not love Howliday Inn?  The Celery Stalks at Midnight?)  So, I started young.  I also watched, and loved, Bram Stoker's Dracula in the early/mid-nineties.  Since then, I'll admit it, I've yet to meet a person with longer than average canines that I haven't found attractive.  I don't seek out books about vampires, but I definitely enjoyed Twilight.  I've read all four books more than twice.  And you know what?  I'm sure I'll read each of them more than twice more.