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LINDSAY LAW / scroll staff
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It’s “soooo good!”
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I have become one of them. That’s right, one of the many fans of www.homestarrunner.com, or more specifically, Teen Girl Squad.
For those who have never visited the site or the Squad, it is a killer conglomeration of cartoons and games for the random, laid-back bones in all of us. My personal favorite is comprised of four teen girls, stereotypically called “Cheerleader,” “So-and-so,” “What’s-her-face,” and “The Ugly One,” a Medusa-haired girl with pointy glasses. In each of the issues, Teen Girl Squad deals with the problems gripping teens everywhere: crushes on boys, shopping for “new spring fashions,” jealousy and chance encounters with rabid possums. The girls ultimately find themselves progressing to college boys during spring break and even to imaginary boyfriends when frat boys are a little scarce. One horrible accident involving a dark hole in the high school leads Whats-her-face to proclaim that, “When you fall in a bottomless pit, you die of starvation.” Perhaps I have fallen into that bottomless pit. I find myself carrying on conversations with roommates (and strangers) in the squad’s strange, throaty voice and quoting the teens on a regular basis. I have a picture of them on my laptop and a screensaver that flashes the words “So good,” their favorite phrase. This past Halloween, I dressed up as The Ugly One, complete with enough hairspray in my hair to start a forest fire. I have even become adept at sketching The Ugly One and I’m planning to make myself a T-shirt with the squad’s primitively-drawn forms on it. Some people can’t understand why I am drawn to girls that experience such traumas as reunions with dead presidents, looking “burnt or dead” and being punctured by arrows. I say they don’t know what they’re missing. So pay the girls a visit when you need a laugh or some random entertainment during those times of extreme boredom. I may have fallen into a pit, but I haven’t starved yet. |
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