Well, maybe not exactly 84 years, but it’s legit been half a year the last time we visited our aspiring Intoxibellas in Modelland. Is everyone else still up to speed? Does everyone need to know who did what to whom? Does anyone even really care?

But for those who need a refresher: The Bellas enter a lesbian hipster cube. Golden showers. The iconic line: “This kitty-cat got a taste of your sweetness and wants more of your cream!”

In Chapter 26 “The Porcelain Pact”, we find out where exactly Dylan ran of to after the girls found themselves engaged in a little S&M inside the lesbian hipster cube.

Continue reading Chapter by Chapter review: Tyra Banks’ “Modelland” Chapter 26 and 27 →

OH. MY. SWEET. GHERKINS. (Photo from here)

So, when I was circulating at the Filipino Readercon, I seriously got more than one person asking me whatever happened to my chapter by chapter reviews of Tyra Banks’ magnum opus, “Modelland”. Had I stopped writing it? Will I still be writing it?

I know it may not seem like it — it’s been four months since the last “Modelland” post — but I do intend to finish this book. By hook or by crook. It’s just that….I’m only human, you guys. I need to recover my strength every time I finish a chapter.

ANYWAYS. Here it is you guys. Let’s dive back into the world of “Modelland”. I’ve got several folders of GIFs open and ready to be deployed. LET’S DO THIS.

Continue reading Chapter by Chapter review: Tyra Banks’ “Modelland” Chapter 22 →

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Okay, so I spent most of Maundy Thursday asleep because I spent most of Holy Wednesday up and about so early in the morning and the rest of the night working on my day job. Hence the absence of any posts.

And now, still a bit groggy from recovering as much sleep as I can from the weeks I’ve spent burning the candle on both ends, I thought twice about doing something that requires more than a couple of brain cells to do. SO what did I end up doing, you ask?

I read another chapter of “Modelland”.

Continue reading Chapter by Chapter review: Tyra Banks’ “Modelland” Chapter 20 →

I’ve spent the whole day trying to come up with a different way to attack this particular chapter. Heck, this particular book even.

I started out just wanting to make fun of it, because let’s be honest, there’s a lot to make fun of. That was still easy to do in the first few chapters — I didn’t know the extent of the craziness that Tyra was going to inflict on me.

I’m only halfway through the damned thing and I am out of ammunition. And even more importantly, I am out of patience. We’re almost 250 pages in and nothing substantial has happened. You know what happened on page 250 of “The Fellowship of the Ring”? Frodo had already been stabbed by the Witch-King of Angmar. And that book isn’t exactly the gold standard when it comes to fast moving plots.

Continue reading Chapter by Chapter review: Tyra Banks’ “Modelland” Chapter 19 →