There are so many things that are hilarious/awesome about this video of "Roll Away Your Stone".

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Let's make a list, shall we?[ *]

1. They are in a fruit shop. Just standing there. Playing their song.
2. Marcus Mumford has terrible hair, and looks kind of sleazy.
3. Winston looks like a redneck from West Virginia. The hair! The hat! The overalls!
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Today Slate debuted the first three installments of My Darklyng, a serialized vampire thriller by YA authors Laura Moser and Lauren Mechling of The Rise and Fall of a 10th Grade Social Climber, which will appear with new chapters every Friday this summer. Here's Slate's (actually kind of terrible) synopsis:

"In this one, readers get to know Natalie ( Read more... )

Another music recommendation. I can't recall if I've mentioned this band before.

Woodpigeon -- aka, Mark Hamilton, and a rotating crew of musicians -- hail from Calgary, Alberta, and make lush orchestral folk-pop with boy-girl harmonies.


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Beautiful Creatures
Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Little Brown, 2009


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As I may have mentioned once or twice, Johnny Flynn's new album, Been Listening, comes out on June 7 in the UK. Possibly in retribution for that tiny historical event called the American Revolution, Transgressive Records has yet to announce the US release date.[ 1] But never fear, US fans! You can still enjoy this 5-track album sampler, featuring " ( Read more... )

I just realized that the classy and high quality ABC Family sitcom 10 Things I Hate About You has come out with loads of new episodes over the past few months. (These are the things I don't realize when I am sans a television-- that is, sans reliving my adolescence on a daily basis by watching Gilmore Girls on ABC Family.) I will try to relish the ( Read more... )

The Maze Runner
James Dashner
Delacorte Press, 2009


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So, on what might be my new favorite blog, Forever Young Adult, they are asking for readers to share their most YA-tastic prom moments and humiliating photographs. For the sake of their comment space, I've decided to share with you all here.

My high school prom experience bordered on slapstick, though sadly I don't believe there are any photos to ( Read more... )

So, I was in my home town (Baltimore) recently, in transit between New York and CALIFORNIAAAAA, where sninkle and I were going on a vacation of epic awesomeness to visit our friend LR.

On the morning of our departure, I found myself at sninkle's house, eating her family's food and probably (as usual) proclaiming my supreme regret that there are no eligible ( Read more... )

Naughts & Crosses
Marjorie Blackman
Simon & Schuster, 2005
(Originally published as Noughts & Crosses by Random House UK in 2001)


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