blog flog: "Happy Halloween!"

[pith]

Link: http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2005/10/happy-halloween.html
Title: "Happy Halloween"

LKH in boldface. Emphasis added is my own.

I'm wearing all the costume I'm putting on tonight; a black t-shirt that says, "I leave bite marks!" I may put on more make-up. Probably. Though every time I put on base and red lipstick on Halloween, no matter what I'm wearing, people always think I'm dressed as a vampire. It's the dark hair and pale skin, I guess, because the people saying it have no idea what I do for a living.

MORE make-up? Is that possible? Maybe people say she looks like a vampire because the make-up makes her look inhuman. And *gasp!* There are people who don't know what she does for a living? Again, how is this possible? She is her own pimp; I can't see how anyone in her county DOESN'T know what she does. Especially considering her "research".

And then, of course, there's the obligatory "oh, I'm so down with the Goddess" spiel, letting us all know, AGAIN, how cool she is because she's pagan/Wiccan/whatever, and we all know that all the cool 13-yr-olds who read her books kids are Wiccan, right?*

Meh.

(* ETA: This should be obvious, but in case it's not: I have no problem with Wiccans in general or principle. I have a problem with wannabe Wiccans. Or wannabe Buddhists. Or wannabe Christians. Whatever the case may be. I did not say Wiccans, in and of themselves, were bad. I'm saying I that I don't buy LKH's Wiccanness.)

Comments

[windiain.livejournal.com]

*pops on his kitty hat and fangs, and gives LKH the finger*

A smeggy halloween to LKH, and a fantastic one to all in this community! :)

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

Just because she's a moron and she's Wiccan doesn't mean all Wiccans are morons.

[dominanefret.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

Ummm. If she's wearing a shirt that says 'I leave bite marks' isn't it implied that she is going as a vampire?? So wouldn't putting on the lipstick and foundation that makes her look MORE like a Vampire be a good thing? Wouldn't those assume she's going as a vampire be..... *gasp* correct?

Or is she just going as a masochist?

[demoncougar.livejournal.com]

I vote sadist. She's the one inflicting the bite marks, not to mention inflicting brain-meltingly BAD writing...

...on us, who are masochist enough to still read this tripe she cranks out. :D

[nanale.livejournal.com]

Of course their assumption is correct, but madame needed soemting to complain about...besides, she could go as a were-animal before the actual change, but that would be a bit boring, so vampire it is.

[magdollna.livejournal.com]

Oh, poo if she wants to be the Tammy Fay Baker of writers I suppose thats her gig. I just hope the godess whispers too her," Less Booty, more plot"

mags

[tsula.livejournal.com]

uh... I thought putty knifing on the foundation and whorey red lipstick was a part of her regular makeup regimen... it's like her garrish day look. I fear her night look... fear it, yet kinda want to see it.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

*headdesk*

Well, at least she's not trying to pass off a Trogdor pendant as some symbol of an ancient God/dess.

And well, it's people like this that annoy me about Wiccans and Pagans. I know there's good ones out there, it's just that the morons tend to get in the way. Come to think of it, that's my same gripe with writers too.

Can I form my own Writerly religion now?

[saadiira.livejournal.com]

If she were being a good Wiccan, she wouldn't be celebrating with a costume at all.

(Has personally been being a bad Wiccan, as loves costumes, etc, and doesn't belong to a coven etc., anyway, at the moment, so isn't doing what she should for Samhain...so can't throw that many stones, but hey...if you're going to pimp with it..at least do it right.)

-Dira-

[frabjously.livejournal.com]

*digs your icon*

I'm surprised that LKH didn't dress up as her own protagonist. I can imagine it now: "And even though people didn't know who I was, they asked me if I was dressed up as Anita Blake." *eye roll*

And isn't LKH Christian anyway?

[oohasparklie.livejournal.com]

LKH claims to be Wiccan because she likes the style of it, not the actual substance. Someone needs to tell her that not all Wiccans dress in all black and always wear (badly applied) red lipstick.

[nanale.livejournal.com]

LKH claims to be Wiccan because she likes the style of it, not the actual substance.

He, she claims to be a writer. That's much worse (in my book) than to claim to belong to a religion. Anyway, in my point of view, she does a lot of things because of the style or because she thinks, that they have style. How else on earth can anyone explain her behaviour towards privacy or "research"/ sex life?
I agree with the make-up tips and will add, that she needs a style or clothes guide who isn't a gamer or wannabe-goth.