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Our (original) Jane: Another thing which has made me laugh is Salon’s<\/a> review of the All Things Austen summer which we seem to be having. Aside from the news that PBS is creating Sundays With Jane<\/a>, a film series of Austen’s books in a four month celebration beginning January 2008, the most recent news, of course, is 2006’s Enthusiasm<\/a>, and this year’s gloriously as-of-yet-jealously-unread Austenland. The idea of a theme park for Austen-lovers in the Austenland novel is second in …sublime ridiculousness only to the whole Potterland Theme<\/a> Park thing… to quote the article: “No, it’s not one in which if you don’t marry a man of means by 25 you’re branded a spinster and forced to live off the kindness of family for the rest of your life! (Coming soon: Woolf-Wharton Water Park, where visitors wade into a stream with pockets full of rocks and can be swept down a river of laudanum! Wheee!)”<\/p>\nPossibly there could also be a Jane Eyre theme park, where one could lock one’s mad(dening) relatives in an attic and… Mmm, perhaps not.<\/p>\n
The most salient point of the Salon piece is that despite all of the fun of the movies and spin-off books one must always go back to the original books. In them, one will find a Jane Austen who is unsentimental, anti-mushy, and sharply — and I mean sharply, complete with catty comments — amused by people who obsessed all day over men.<\/p>\n
Viva la Jane.<\/p>\n
More Than Meets the Eye<\/b>: Ohh, if you didn’t actually ever watch<\/i> the highly silly dubbed-over Japanese television show, this summer’s ridiculously high-action blockbuster, Transformers<\/i> might just seem like, “Hm. Trucks. Robots.” But the fact that the name Optimus Prime (!!) is one I actually know… worries me. The truth is,Everything I Need to Know About (Real) Robots I Learned From Transformers<\/a>… yep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Things that have made me laugh so far today:Cherries Galore: Another M.E.M. – Best Friend’s Pet Photography and on I-505 “Fresh, Local Cherries’s.” Methinks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4159,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions\/4159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}