Courtenay Hameister brought cookies to knife fight. Well, not so much a knife fight as a sharp debate. A debate about literacy in America, and whether there’s something wrong with grownups shoving kids out of the way to get to the Young Adult novels, or whether there’s something so wrong with grownup novelists that readers have to elbow kids out of the Young Adult section to get a good story to read. Also discussed: Grease is bad for you, so stop taking your kids to see it. The silliness of pursuing a superficial perfection at all costs, when some of the best things this world has ever seen came from people no one would ever consider conventionally “beautiful.” What’s beautiful? A nice guy from the special olympics writing a really nice letter that oh-so-nicely defangs one of the dumbest trolls in the modern media. It’s a hopeful show, really. That’s what adding cookies to this podcast does.
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Just becasue something was done one way in the past, doesn’t mean it
s the better way to do something.
There are some people who think squatting is better then sitting, but no study actually backs that.
Siting is more hygienic, relaxing, and doesn’t put strain on your legs and lower back.
Siting MIGHT increase the odds of hemorrhoids. Saying it causes cancer isn’t only wrong, it’s irresponsible.
“Yellow bands that remind you to cheat whenever you can get away with it.” ha!
I remember getting to the age, somewhere in Jr. High, where I could read well enough to read actual novels and trying a Hardy Boys novel, only to be disappointed to find out that the Hardy Boys were late high-school age, rather that the age I was at the time. That’s one good thing Harry Potter did, was give the young readers a point-of-view character about their age to identify with.
Anyway, as for the thing with people enjoying media aimed at children and teens well into adulthood, I don’t think its a problem… except. Except for the ones who decide that because they enjoy the story or the setting, further excursions into that should conform to their adult sensibilities. And of course, since ‘adult’ has nothing to do with ‘mature’, this usually means adding a bunch of 90s-style gratuitous sex and violence to the thing, despite the fact that it never had that in the first place and really never needed it anyway.
Yeah, that whole second paragraph is kind of what I was getting at with the Star Wars Expanded Universe example I gave in the show. And really, superhero comics as a whole, in general.
My mom loves Grease and my sister and I have watched it probably about 20 times, and my dad loves 007. I started watching 007 at about age 7, my sister 4. I don’t really know if its had an effect on my life as I grew up (I’m 17 now). Anyways just wanted to share this because it was relevant
. Great show guys!
This episode of CortandFatboy is probably my favorite so far. Great topics, great coversation… it was shows like this that make me thank Eric Tomorrow for recommending you.
Plus, I enjoyed the book talk a lot. The blurring of the lines between YA and Adult books is a strange new territory. The whole paranormal romance and YA market pretty much dominates the writing world, especially for new authors. It’s tough out there.