New Favorite Blog
Style Rookie is stylish, hip, very funny, and written by Tavi, a 12-year-old! She describes herself as a "garden gnome with the brain of a wind-up monkey, posture of a crotchety old hag, stare-down skills of a zombie, haircut of a little boy, and tact of Larry David." She has great, funky, and unique style, which in my middle school would have meant ostracizm to the point of serious social trauma, but seems like it's working out well for her so far. I think she might be a better blogger than me, and I'm trying not to be jealous of the young one. Or as she would put it, "jeals."
Here's just one sample of her zingyness:
There's something sentimental about this time of year which I'm not ready to give up just to go back to condescending teachers, petty drama, ridiculous expectations, self-absorbed students, alarm clocks, B.O., disgusting and nausea-causing amounts of Axe, and really smelly Messy Josephs (BAM, totez just described middle school in one, huge, run-on sentence. I could take the easy way out and use one word-Hell, if you were wondering-but this is more fun.)Sold!
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6 comments:
OMG, if I had her self-confidence at 12, I wouldn't have needed the years of therapy I endured after high-school. She rocks!
I can't bring myself to believe that blog is actually written by a 12 year old.
I'm thinkin' maybe she's not QUITE 12-cause I spend my days with middle schoolers, and not even the best of them could come up with that.
15 who says she's 12? Maybe even 14 who says she's 12? But 12...then she must be a celebrity kid, or at least attends a private school in California.
Love Ya Moxie!
Well her blog profile says she's 12, and I was skeptical too, until I remembered myself in middle school, attempting to write term papers on Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot (until my republican teacher stopped me, bitch).
Plus all those photos on her blog are of her, and she's mini.
Maybe it's written by her mother as though she is her. Maybe she's reliving some chapter of her childhood through her daughter but with the wizened experience of adulthood as a way of exorcising some deep pre-pubescent social scarring. Is that too much of a stretch? Or maybe I'm just a big fat idiot like Rush.
Uh, uh, I'm not swallowing that this is done by a 12 year old. I taught English for too many years not to recognize when someone else wrote the paper and Junior put his or her name on it for credit.
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