Because the stupid burns like hydrochloric *acid*, man

[earthbelow]

From one of the most noxious and annoying interviews with an author I've yet seen:

"Before Harry Potter, no one was reading."

- Robyn Schneider

Yeah, because *before* Harry Potter, we were all just staring at the page wondering what the funny shapes were, but then Harry Potter said "accio literacy!" and suddenly, we understood written language!

I'm torn between being very annoyed at the supreme amount of teh_st00pid in this and laughing insanely.

In fact, if I were compiling a list of the stupidest quotes ever, this goes somewhere between Barbara Bush's "well, the hurricane worked out great for the homeless of New Orleans" comment and Al Gore's infamous "I invented the internet".

Yeah. This is Inventing the Internet Class Stupid.

I believe this calls for an icon of an angry turtle. And oh, look. I just happen to have one on hand.

Comments

Re: Accio literacy!

[thousandpages.livejournal.com]

I found the line about four years of A+ English papers leading to poise and sophistication to be even funnier, cuz, I gotta tell ya, a lot of my students got A+'s on all of their high school English papers, including AP English, and still can't construct a decent sentence.

I was thinking the same thing. I mean, come on. *High School* English? High school English (no insult to the teachers) does it's job if you can graduate and read your own diploma.

Sometimes, I kinda wanna scream when I hear that people like *this* got a book deal when I know at least ten other unpublished authors, off the top of my head, who's work merits publication and are much smarter people. *sigh*.

I guess we've just proven that life *isn't* fair. But occasionally, it is very funny.

Also: YAY! Wendy is still alive!

- Meg