MBW Formation

Posted on by scott

Those of you who’ve read my book So Yesterday may remember the following scene in chapter 2. A focus group of cool-hunters has just been shown a new sneaker advertisement, and they all seem to agree that it’s awesome.

That is, until Jen speaks up . . .

“I was kind of bugged by the missing-black-woman formation.”

Mandy blinked. “The what?”

Jen shrugged uncomfortably, feeling the eyes on her.

“Yeah, I know what you mean,” I said, even though I didn’t.

Jen took a slow breath, collecting her thoughts. “You know, the guy on the motorcycle was black. The guy on the bike was white. The woman was white. That’s the usual bunch, you know? Like everybody’s accounted for? Except not really. I call that the missing-black-woman formation. It kind of happens a lot.”

It was quiet for another moment. But gears were spinning. Tina Catalina let out a long sigh of recognition.

“Like the Mod Squad!” she said.

“Yeah,” Hiro chimed in, “or the three main characters in . . . ” He named a certain trilogy of movies about cyber-reality and frozen kung-fu, whose title ends in an X, counts as a brand, and therefore will not grace these pages.

The floodgates broke. More comic books, movies, and TV shows tumbled off everyone’s lips, a dozen stuffed-full pop-cultural memory banks rifled for examples of missing-black-woman formations, until Mandy looked ready to cry.

She smacked the clipboard down.

“Is this something I should have KNOWN ABOUT?” she said sharply, sweeping her eyes around the table.

An unhappy silence fell over the conference room. I felt like an evil genius’s henchman when something goes wrong in a certain series of secret agent films—as if Mandy might push a button on the control panel and we would be ejected, chairs and all, out the roof and into some lake in Central Park.

I noticed only yesterday that we’re living through a nation-changing MBW formation right now. (Gloria Steinem may have jogged my brain on this point.) So let’s all take a moment to appreciate the predictive, productive, and representative powers of pop culture.

We have a way of becoming the stories we tell ourselves.

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Just to be clear: I’m not mocking what’s going on here in the US. Having a woman and an African-American man as serious contenders for president is momentous. It’s great to see.

Still, I didn’t want to let a missing-black-woman formation as epic as this one pass by unnoticed.

And for you younger folks, here’s the scoop on the late-1960s TV show The Mod Squad.

Update: To comply with Federal Election Commission equal time rules, I am also required to display a picture of the Republican candidates . . .

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158 thoughts on “MBW Formation”

  1. Ha, first comment, unless, at this very moment, someone else is commenting at the same time as me.
    Ah, So Yesterday. I haven’t read that in forever. I am so going have to buy it now.

  2. Really weird. I just read So Yesterday and was thinking the same thing. (About the election.) o.O

  5. HAHHH.

    *hem*

    Sorry. Very interesting, valid points. But the parting (Parthian?) shot was just brilliant.

    *well-meaning snicker*

  6. I actually thought about those same exact examples when i read that book for the first time a couple of months ago! insane!

    its totally true though – and the republican bit is pure GOLD.
    DFTBA

  8. ahh Scott it is everywhere!! when i read so yesterday i thought about that for like EVER before reading some more

  9. Wow, that made my day 🙂 Thanks for taking my mind off of auditions. I will go alert the masses of the missing-black-woman formation. Another person named Hiro in Scott’s books…

  10. i didn’t notice that he had 2 hiros until i was reading the excert. i was like hiro hummmmmmmm……
    neway i liked so yesterday a lot.. i havent read it in forever either. i think i’ll review it. o 1 last thing. whooooooooo #10!!!!!!!!!!! yay me!!!!
    or 11 or maybe if i stall long enough 13 hummmm…..* starts stalling*

  14. Eh…. Sometimes I think that there should be a missing Mexican formation with are population growing with more Mexicans.

    Whoot.

  15. LOL. I’ve actually thought about the MBW formation several time since reading So Yesterday and it even crossed my mind during last Saturday’s Facebook debates. Fantastic post, Scott!

  18. Smith is one white dude.

    anyways that’s so awesome and so true. but i like the way it looks with the one black guy. it makes it looks fawesome. but i always end up hating the white dude.
    what is up with this? I guess white guys aren’t good at looking cool or something, although Neo will always be cool. >.> oooo burn diss oh . . . ok i’m really done now.

    good blog. and so yesterday was a really good book. read it last year. : )

  22. haven’t read So Yesterday yet….sadly. i have it. but haven’t had time to read it with all the school stuff and all. interesting post though i never thought about that.

    guess what….today in my awesome honors english class-(last day..:( ) we watched this short movie thing called “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbary and there was a wall screen that put w/e you were thinking on the wall and it was like a tv…and the kids in the movie like thought of lions and stuff and the veltd–African safari or w/e. and so then there parents were all worried and stuff and so they tried to close the room but the kids snuck back in and programed it so that the lions would pop out of the screen and eat their parents….they were some twisted little kids. lol. anyways the reason i was saying this is b/c the house like did everything for them and it reminded me of the Uglies series.

  23. Yeah that does sound like pretties, not so much uglies.
    Anyway i just felt like posting this, so my friend plays neopets , i know roght, and she made me join but its not that bad, its dumb, but there is this really cool part theyre called guilds and what you do is you have a club about a certain topic and you do activities and such so of course i had to make one to do with uglies, exapt it wasnt mine to began with i was just the manager of it but now im the owner the reson im teling u this is because i wanted to show u because if ur like me u like anything to do with uglies so here u go
    http://www.neopets.com/guilds/guild.phtml?id=3309542

  28. I have a neopets but I haven’t gone on it for a while.I looked at guild though just now and it’s pretty cool.
    See ya!

  30. I think its very cool that we may be in the middle of history here. The first woman President, fawesomeness, and of course, a black president, very fawesome too. I think it is very cool. I am almost done with So Yesterday, i have been really slow. I must repeat again because it makes me in thrilled that we may be in the presence of history.

  31. The Republican candidates made me laugh out loud.
    I’ve been fascinated by the idea of the mbw formation ever since I read the book–and I still see it everywhere, as well as variations on the theme. Disney channel does it in practically every show; the main character is one gender and race and has two friends, one of the same race and different gender, one of the same gender and different race. I think I noticed that before I read So Yesterday, though.
    Guess they wanted to push that whole PC thing.
    Even Doctor Who did it for a little bit, in the second series. But then Martha showed up, and took care of the whole situation.

  32. I hate it when you see the MBW it bothers me. It botrhers me when i feel like people are excluded. see, i was given this really awesome gift that i love. Ok, its sympathy. I always try to feel sympathy for others, most importantly if its happened to me. for Example:
    One time i sneezed on some random dude and it was totally embarrassing and then a girl and my class sneezed on me and was like ‘sorry, that gross’ and im like ‘its ok’

    and i mean like i understand that people make mistakes and i really try to be like the kindest i can because i no how it feels to be rejected and embarrassed u no?

  34. Hahahahaha! The Republican candidates! Tee hee! You know the surveys that tell you whether you are a Republican or a Democrat? I ALWAYS am in the middle. I’m neither. Yay! *I have no intention of sparking the inevitable political debate*

    I say the MBW is really Big Brother, watching you as you sleep.

  36. DUDE! I never have seen better photos of the monochromatic-white-male Republican candidates! Most of the time, they are sticking their fingers in their noses!

  37. lol thats so funny
    that makes me want to tell the world to find the missing black woman
    the republicans
    its funny ’cause its true
    rich old white dudes
    A.K.A. the republican party
    but the black dude (forgot his name)running for prez
    has to be the whites black dude ever so does he realy count

  39. i laughed so hard when i saw the “republican candidates”!!!!! it describes them so well!!!!!! haha!!!!!! my mom saw it and thought they looked scary. i’m like, “it’s funny!!!! you have to read it to understand!!!” good job on this one scott!!!! i needed a laugh!!!!! hahaha!!!! everytime i hear about the republicans i’m going to think of this and start laughing!!!!!! that probably isn’t good, because one of my friends is VERY republican. who cares. i’ll laugh at whoever i want to!!!! hehe!!! ok, bye peoples!!!

  40. *sigh* The missing black woman… yes…
    That’s very interesting. I’d forgotten about that since I read the book… but now it’s all coming back…

    I like the picture of the republican candidates- very spot on.
    <3

  47. Oh, the infamous MBW Formation. It’s everywhere.
    I laughed pretty hard at the Republican candidates there, too. n_n
    I should read So Yesterday again. I haven’t done so in a few months. *is a very hard-core So Yesterday fan*

  52. Me and my friends type OMGOSH…
    Well some of them aren’t my friends anymore cuz they suck and when they found out I had just turned 13 they were like ‘OMG you’re a seventh grader!’ but obviously these people didn’t know me very well..
    oh and I went back to school today
    my first day of tech
    the teacher didn’t explain anything to me even though I missed 2 days
    he made my ‘group leader’, Bailee, do it
    Bailee wears vampire teeth
    theres 2 boys and another girl in my group
    I told them that they would get mad if I read the packet
    they made me do it anyway
    guess what…

    they got mad
    they said I talk too fast
    I know I do
    They told me to shut up
    so I tried but they couldn’t pronounce the words so I interrupted and it made it worse
    I would have much rather been in a group with Alexandra, my friend from kindergarten, Allysa, a girl in my girl scout troop, and Conner, even though he’s bad luck at least I know him better than most of those kids, he was in my computer class and he’s in my Spanish, he can be quite annoying

  54. People, hello, answer me question!!!

    Have you ever wanted to be preppy?

    u must answer, yes. Most of you probably want to put up a restraining order on me now but thats who i am:
    Pick loving, boy crazy, like-saying, flat wearing (the shoes), reader. sorry, but i have always wanted to be a prep.

  59. Well, thats ur opinion, i for one think i would be freakin awesome/fawesome. Omg! My teacher had this book and it had rhyming words! It was fun it was like.

    ood:
    Food
    Pood
    Shood
    ewood
    nood
    cood
    lood
    but the acculy made since.

  65. god no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Abercrombie is my Kryptonite.
    *cranks up music by band whose guitar player is named Vlad and readjusts black sweatshirt hood over purple hair*
    i have never once wanted to be preppy. all the preps i know are obnoxious, alcoholic, sheep-like masses.
    and that’s not me.

    i ask again!
    SECRET KITTY!
    good band name or crappy one?
    i need more data, my friend is all skewing it in her favor.
    ANSERW!

  66. Umm…it sort of depends on what kind of band it is.Like what kind of music would that particular band that would be named
    Secret Kitty play?

  67. I think its a good band name. although it reminds me of Hello Kitty (gag me).

    By the way i said i would want to be preppy, right now, im so far form it.

    Uh,i think i had to much cake.

    Well, im going to go join Ciara now and her totally fawesome music.

    I need a signature thingy-ma-bob.
    Uh, how about- i got nothin- oh! Ok this is my nameon something so i use it.

    ~Pnkalway

  68. Ok, so here i ma, listening to Ciara when this wild idea pops into my mind.

    What if Scott did this awesome camp where he tought people like how to write but he like accpted all of us.

    I dont no, i just thought of that, thought i wound share.

  71. he he he. Bran-la that wouls be soooo fool!!!!!!!!! but idk if he could teach all of us. we would need to write a really good story to get in or an essay but that would still be soooo foolio!!!!!!!!!!

    SCOTT****** READ THIS SCOTT******PLZ READ THIS SCOTT***
    You shoud so do that. like a camp on how to write fawesomely, like you. but you could like have uswrte a really good Narritive or Some kind of essay and c=you could like pick the best and like have other authors come too! that would be like so Foolio!! maybe when you finish your current books then like maybe try to setup the camp! that would be so foolio. ~~~it was Bran-la’s idea.~~~ OH YA AND SCOTT COME TO ATL, GA!!!!!!!!!! PLZ?!?!?

    but wouldn’t that be so fawesome?!?

    he he he

    SoPhIe-La
    WoRd 😉

  72. Ya, and he could invite all his obsessive commenter’s (thats me that me!!!!) And we could all be like all in the camp and you could buy a mansion Scott and we could stay there and write all the time!

  73. ok here comes a random post:
    i havent like had a great day today so i was listenin to my emo song which just also happens to be in my opion the Uglies theme song….Mad World by Michael Andrews the lyrics are like PERFECT http://www.lyricsdownload.com/michael-andrews-mad-world-lyrics.html
    note how at one part it even says”children waiting for the day they’ll feel good happy birthday happy birthday” FREAKY MUCH well i love this song it reminds me of uglies and i can play it ont he piano!! another way i feel better when im sad is read Specials…so basically uglies makes me happy in every way!

  74. “To comply with Federal Election Commission equal time rules, I am also required to display a picture of the Republican candidates . . .”

    Scott, you are my hero. 😀

  78. I know that this is probably random on this page but I noticed that there are the most people commenting on here and I want a lot of opinions.Okay this is for my own self amusement(or torture, whichever comes first)This is the million dollar question:
    Who is better? EDWARD or ZANE?Please answer.(even if you are a Jacob or David fan)Thanks!
    See Ya!

  82. Wow – the missing black woman formation is everywhere!!! I never even noticed!!

    And I have to say the picture of the “Republicans” had me laughing so hard it hurt!!!!

    I love both Edward and Zane. But for very different reasons. One of my main reasons for loving Edward is his over-analytical personality, I fit him so perfectly. He’s so conerned about Bella and her safety, he wants her to have as many human experiences as possible.

    On the other hand there is Zane, who I also love!! I love him for his spontinaity (sp?) though. I love how he just acts on impulses, and does all these crazy things to try to not be pretty-minded anymore. He risks taking the pill with Tally even though he knows it could end up disasterous (and it does…) plus he tries everything he can to allow Tally to have as many experiences of clear-mindedness as possible.

    They’re both so great, I couldn’t say who was my favorite – I love them both!!

  83. i’ve noticed that textbooks have a lot of the MBW formation.

    “LET’S SKIP SCHOOL TO GO LIVE IN A MANSION WITH OTHER BLOG SPAMMERS!”

    woot!

    i need to get off the internet. blasted bloody homework.

  84. Random Question!

    Sorry to ask this here, but I don’t know where else to ask it.

    Is anyone else having trouble accessing westerboard.com? I would like to go there and participate in the forums, but I cannot go to the Web site: a pop-up stops me, asking me for a username and password. Is this normal or is there something wrong with my browser? If I hit “cancel” it goes to the site and says:

    Authorization Required
    This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn’t understand how to supply the credentials required.

    Additionally, a 401 Authorization Required error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

    Is this normal? Any help from you guys would be greatly appreciated! 🙂

    Lae

  86. Ahahaa Im even a Conservative, and I found that GOP Candidate smack to be hilarious…..

    Be better if they were all wearing Reagan masks….
    “Im regan!”
    “No I am!”
    “No…I am!”
    “No seriously, I am.”

  87. Wow, I remember that now!

    Uhhhhhhhhhh, I am at home, sick! I feel sooo crappy, I can not even explain it! And, when I get back to school I have to take all the tests I’m missing today, and all the tests that are tomorrow! It’s sooo horrible! But, I’m rereading Specials, again. It’s sooo good, but like, I haven’t read it in forever sooo for some reason it seems sooo different from when I last read it!

    Bran-la, no I have never wanted to be preppy! All the preps at my school are (so many bad words to give them, but I will say a particularly nice one) jerks! All they care about is themselves, if you get in there way they will take you down, they don’t care if your feelings are hurt, and end the end their life is secretly horrible but the thing is they will realize it way to late do anything about it! Wow, that was weird.

    Well, I’m going to go take a cat-nap, I’m already exhausted and sooo dizzy!

  88. Oh, and I forgot, SECRET KITTYS, is a horrible name! sorry but it kinda is, I know, I know it’s pretty harsh, but well thats my opinion!

  90. Ow, Ooops, but still Secret Cat is still horrible! lol! ughhh, sick! Gross! (I’m talking about how I’m sick) It’s horrible!

  92. The first thing I siad to my step-mom this morning was, “the world sucks and im gonna die at an early age

  94. I am home Serafina, sick! It sucks!!! It’s sooo boring, I’m reading my fourth book right now! (I’m not saying readings boring, I’m saying that not being able to get up and hang with my friends is boring)!

    And, Netta-la, why when you got up this morning you said…

    “the world sucks and im gonna die at an early age”

    ???

  96. cuz i was tired and in a grumpy, pouty mood
    more specifically i said “..die at an early age because of global warming.”

  98. Oh, lol! Like I said, sitting in bed reading all day is better than school, but I just wish I could hang out with friends while I do it, ya know?

    I see what you mean, Netta-la, hehe! We’re all going to die of global warming, though so, ur not alone!

  103. Uh! School. Bores. Me. Very. Much.
    My math teacher is so totally oblivious. My guy friend walked out of the class, did something in the school for five min., came back and she never even noticed! He was in the front row! And its not like he snuck out, he got up and left. everyone was cracking up and my teacher was like “You guys, this math lesson isn’t very funny.” Like, no duh, were not laughing at you.

    This guy in my math class, the one that sits next to me, he always does stuff and she never notices and if she does she doesn’t care. but that not likely, she always gets made.

  106. HaHaHa! It was so funny at school today, in my stupid boring Algebra class, all the guys were throwing pencils and getting them stuck in the ceiling and the teacher never even noticed.I know totally oblivious! Especially since everyone was cracking up laughing and there were like 20 pencils stuck in the ceiling when we left and the teacher’s all mumbling to himself”I’m glad I can have a class with such well behaved students…blah blah blah” Lol!
    Okay, my really important question about who is better,Zane or Edward- I can’t even answer cause they’re both so fantabulous!(my stupid word of the day)Yeah so I just decided that Edward is the best and Zane is the best too.(except they’re in two different like centuries so I don’t have to choose.HeHeHe!)Oh wait,Dang it! Edward doesn’t get any older so does that mean he’s alive when Tally and Zane are? That would be so stinkin awesome! He could have like saved Zane before he died.Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!(I have to stop thinking like this, it’s gonna fry my brain)
    See ya!

  107. lol, i don’t o, i love them both. I think there both pretty freakin fawesome so i give them both a big 100.

  109. Hehe, I have no funny school stories today, because I wasn’t in school! But, ya, the other day my guy friend kept making me laugh during a test and I got in sooo much trouble, he didn’t even get in any!

  110. That’s so unfair, but that stuff happens to me all the time cuz anything totally random can make me laugh so most of my teachers just ignore it now,I guess thats kind of lucky for me.
    lol!
    See ya!

  111. Hehe, well they don’t ignore me! And it’s the same for me to, I’ll laugh at practically anything, hehe!

  112. yessssssssss!!! done with semester finals….now i have till Tuesday to chill out. hehe.

    anyways i really don’t feel like reading all those comments so can someone sum it up 4 me?? please.

  113. HEY YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD BE TOTALLY AND UNSTOPPIDLY FAWESOME??!!!

    Okay, I have your attention, but, do you know what would be totally and unstoppidly fawesome?…

    If Scott-la WROTE THE UGLIES SERIES ALL OVER AGAIN BUT IN SHAY-LA’S AND DAVIDS POV’S!!!

    THAT WOULD BE SOOO FREAKIN FAWESOME!!!

    ‘Cause I have always wanted to know about how David and Shay-la, feel about this!!!

    *******WARNING SPOILERS:**************

    Shay-la: hello! Her best friend forever keeps getting on the opposite sides! First she betrays her, then she steals her boyfriend, then her other boyfriend, then she abandons her, then she cares more about her “crippled boy” (see Special than Shay-la!!! Wouldn’t that be totally fawesome and dramatic, and just words that I can’t explain it!

    David: People all over the world are bubbleheaded, brain deads, then a girl names Tally comes to the Smoke, after her best friend did, and she traveled ALONE through the wild!!! This girl is freakin’ awesome, and then we keep getting closer and closer, then the night after they finally kiss, theres all these Specials, everywhere, and it turns out she led them here ON PURPOSE!!! But, she never tells him that, and they escape the Specials, and travel for weeks through the wild, alone, to get his mom and dad and the rest of the Smoke back, and once they help them escape, they figure out his dad died! Then his moms makes these brain-dead-stopper-pills that stop the lesions, and they need some pretty to test it on and his mom tells him TALLY led the Specials here on purpose, soo she goes and becomes a pretty so they can have a person to test it on! Then, he has to go into hiding for a little while so he has to send someone else to give her the pills, instead of him! So, Tally finally escapes pretty-town with all her friends, and it turns out she’s not with them and she has another BOYFRIEND!!! How, hurtfull, but it turns out that they had split the pills and now her boyfriends braindead braindead, and then the specials start to come and Tally won’t go with them. then the next time he sees her shes a SPECIAL!!! OMG! And she’s like totally after him, to destroy the smoke, and get revenge-ishness, for killing her boyfriend! but then, a war starts, and her boyfriend dies, and she needs him!! Thats the perfect story!!!!!!

    But, as you can defiently see, I want David’s story much much more then Shay-la’s but they’d both be just as fawesome!!!

    What do you guys think??

  114. Oh, and I forgot to say, in David’s that she kept rewiring herself without the pills!!!

    There just add that in!

  116. woah. theres a brilliant idea Amelia-wa! see? thats why i love you. David and Shay-la are SO much more interesting. yeah.

    dont you think that all the boring people in books are usually the main character? like…in twilight. how Bellas the main character. whats up with that? i mean, the book wood still be pretty bad no matter whose POV its from. but i read the first chapter of midnight sun in Edwards POV. talk about more interesting. i wood give twilight like a 7 on the good book scale. from Edwards POV i mite give it a 8.5.

    Edward, like Shay-la and David, actally DOES stuff. instead of just sitting around reacting to what there friends do and almost getting killed.

    such a smart smart girl…i approve.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😀

  121. i have to do a project that counts as half my grade with the most obnoxus and annoying popular/preppy girl and she is like sooooo stupid and she expects meto do all of the work!!!! she is like always talking to this guy in our class. and like the projec is due monday and ” I ” am not even close to being done. and she didn’t do any reseach last night and se was like all “sorry i was on the phone all night and forgot.” WHEN I CALLED HER TWICE!!!!!!!!!!!! ergay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so not fool!!!!!! i’ll have to work this weekend and put my life in the makeing on hold. i was going to wait al weekend for my kinda b/f to call….. long story…. if u want to know i will tell but…. NOT ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!! GRRRRRR,{girl in SoPhIe-La’s S.S. class}!!!!!!!!!!!

    but so……

    he he he

    as u can tell not a good day today……..

    i was kind like ranting….. he he he

    sry 4 have u listen to my problems……

    SoPhIe-La
    WoRd 😉

  123. hhhmmm…i think Shay-las POV wood be better. i mean, i wood want to share that hate for Tally-wa with her. ya no what i mean?

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😐

  124. Ya, I know what you mean, but in David’s POV there would be sooo much extra stuff that we haven’t heard of, ya know?

  125. ya i think it sould like switch in between each? maybe…..

    so….. And to the Question Edward 0r Zane? i have 2 anwsers

    1. both i love them the same

    2. THIS IS SCOTT WESTERFELD’S BLOG!!!! he he he i guess it is knda talking abouthis books too bu um……. ya he he he

    ok that was kinda… wha…..

    talk plz…..

    SoPhIe-LA
    WoRd 😉

  126. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! I am so mad! I just post a really long comment and now I came back and it’s gone and I don’t even know if I can remember everyhting that I wrote!(It’s probably good for you guys though cuz now you don’t have to read it.lol!)Okay I’m over it now.HeHeHe.

  128. By the way, it is so not happy-making to call Zane
    “cripple boy” actually it’s very rude so I’ll just pretend that I didn’t read it.Lol! Okay yeah, I do think it would be cool to make it in Shay-la or Davids pov but It would be even cooler to do something even more fabulously random. Not sure what yet. Hmmmm… I usually reserve thinking for school but I guess I can turn my brain on to think for this occasion.HaHaHa!!!(wow I have problems with laughing at myself, I do it a lot,if you haven’t noticed.)

  129. I am super bored I guess it’s time for me to start homework then cause I’m knee deep in it from being absent yesterday.
    See ya!

  130. yuck HW!!!!!!!!!!! ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    he he he on the Chasing Midnight Wereeoves hq culb members page i worte Sophie-la over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and ove and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and ove and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and ove and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and ove and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again
    just like that bu lots more times he he he

    he he he

    SoPhIe-La
    WoRd 😉

  131. hi
    did any of you look at my reading list?
    if so i have an update
    i have finnished
    my first book cross my heart and hope to spy
    i rate it an 7 out of ten
    good now i will read twilight
    but a evil girl 😈
    checked it out of the library
    then she said
    “i might read it”
    i was sooooooooooo mad 😡
    now my reading list is
    the twilight books
    peeps
    last days
    and last but not least
    so yesterday

    btw i will atempt (spellt wrong) to do my shoe laces like
    oooooh you know what i mean

    gtg evil sis 😈
    she is talking about puples
    she is nutz

    gtg byby 😉

  132. Steph-la, that’s so ironic, I just just read Cross my Heart and Hope to Spy yesterday!!! I thought it was really good – I liked the excitment and twists, but I have to say – I missed Josh.

  134. i am a republican so i do not like the pic of the agents from the matrix

    but i must say the mod sqad thind and the other matrix thing was sooooo funny !!!!!!!
    🙂
    i need to read NOW!!!!!!!!
    bran-la can you bring a book that i could borrow ??
    please!!!
    i have now changed my book list to:
    peeps
    last days
    the twilight books

    btw i still urge you to rate books and post your own book lists to for reasearch 😉
    keep on reading

  135. hahaha. i totally love it..ironic and yet so true!
    by the way, for anyone who hasn’t read So Yesterday yet- it is such a good book, and it turned me on to reading Scott Westerfeld’s other books (and now the Uglies trilogy is one of my favorites.)
    so in shortt, i love how the MBW applies still…how come the government hasn’t read this book?!
    Scott Westerfeld, you are my hero.

  136. Actually, she just finished the first rough draft of Gallagher Girls 3, Steph-la. It’s still going to be awhile before it comes out because of editing and stuff, but It shouldn’t be terribly long, probably like 6 months or so.

  137. About the Westeroard thing… I have the same problem!!

    Fellow fans- help! Please? 🙂

    Before I even get to the site I get that same popup that asks me for a username and password. And if I cancel it says “authorization denied” or whateve.

    Help, friends?

  138. i want to see shay-la’s pov! she was ALWAYS my favourite, because even when you didn’t know about the lesions in uglies she seemed a lot more interesting. like she actually wanted to do something instead of being cautious and stuff like tally. and then in pretties she broke out of bubbleheadedness without even thinking she took the pills like tally. and then in specials she kicked ass unlike tally.
    if you think about it, her and david and maddy started the mind rain, not tally. and then in extras, tally gets all the credit for it, an shays stuck with a face rank in the two hundreds! injustice or what?

  143. and, morgan-la:
    (I’m hauntedpretty on westerboard) Westerboard is down for a little, the admin is working on it. We hope it’ll be back up soon!

  144. can’t *twitch* read all *twitch* posts *twitch*
    must *twitch* finish *twitch* blue *twitch* noon *twitch* *twitch*

  145. Wow, I’m sooo glad that you pointed that out and I LOVED So Yesterday. I feel like it doesn’t get as much as attention as your other books and that makes me sad, because I always felt that it was amazing. Also, the parting shot was FABULOUS. Wow.

  146. Lotti-wa no offense I liked Shay-la too it’s just I really don’t like the idea of the cutters its sort of really not a good thing that they were doing.
    Team Zane!
    see ya!

  148. hhhmmmm…

    Steph-la its hard to read your comments. hehe. there all confuzzling and scrambled and shortened an what not. hehe. ya no what i mean?

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 8)

  149. Yikes. I’d forgotten that section of the book.

    Surreal and unfortunate, but that’s how this country works much of the time.

  150. The MBW formation is very creepy….Everyone does the whole white guy, white girl, black guy formation in EVERYTHING. Can anyone think of anything that actually includes a black woman in an adventure story? …I can’t.

  155. I’m having one of those moments where I realize I met my favorite author ever in the entire world, and still can’t get over it. It’s been like, months lol. Can’t get over it. It’s so amazing to me! Hope you’re well, Mr. Westerfeld! I hope I get to see you again soon, whether it’s Mequon or…KENTUCKY!
    Though Mequon is more likely. Maybe. Gosh, I can’t believe it.

  156. Wow. That is so hilariously funny. Especially the Republican part.

  157. So, I just realized that the Dr. Cable I’d been picturing in my head from the Uglies Trilogy looks just like a younger version of Clinton. That woman kind of scares me….

  158. The Republican candidates. . . *snort* You gave me the serious lulz there, Mr. Westerfield.

    You’re just about the most epic author I’ve ever seen srsly.

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