Channing Frye and His Pet Dragon

This is kind of random, but Channing Frye, formerly of the University of Arizona and the New York Knicks, wrote a post on his blog about the weird and out-of-control popularity of the Twilight series. He doesn't get it:

I asked [my girlfriend] what was so intriguing about the book and here was her analysis: “The reason why I and many women love this story is because the main vampire, Edward, is deeply in love with Bella (main women character.) He loves her but cannot do anything physical with her and that type of “naughty” tension (wink, wink) is what I think keeps people reading. The fact that he loves her and doesn’t want to hurt her, yet he says, “her blood is the sweetest he had smelled in a 100 years.” So he can’t do anything with her because he might lose control and EAT her. Therein lies the conflict and the draw for reading these stories.

Now, when I heard this, the first thing I thought of was how lonely is this girl that outta all of the people in all the world she falls in love with a dang vampire? I mean, come on. That’s like me having a pet lion or a pet dragon and loving it all day and never coming to the conclusion that hey, when my pet dragon or lion is hungry all this lovey-dovey stuff is going out the window. It’s gonna bite my face off.

God bless Channing, and his almost pathological literal-mindedness.

(Via TrueHoop)