Read Online Coffee at Luke's: An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest (Smart Pop Series) by Jennifer Crusie, Leah Wilson - Free Book Online Page A
Authors: Jennifer Crusie, Leah Wilson
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argue that this is a time when communication is more important than ever. (Yes, I am trying to sound mature, here.) But hey, who wants to discuss topics like, Where did you get those cherry-flavored ribbed condoms I found in your sock drawer?
I don’t know exactly when my daughter lost her virginity. For a long time, I assumed this was something I would most certainly know. I thought, when the time came, I’d be too curious not to ask. But the more she was doing, the more I shied away from the specifics. It just didn’t seem like my business. My comments became more cautionary, hers more dismissive.
ME: Please just make sure that you only have sex with someone when you’re in a loving, happy relationship.
HER: Mom, you’ve been watching too much Gilmore Girls .
In any case, the relationship with Dean does not last long. Rory is settling in at Yale; basically, he has no chance. Rory becomes preoccupied with the ultimate threat to the mom and daughter best-friend bond: Logan Huntzberger.
Logan, a student at Yale, is the son of an extremely wealthy newspaperman. His family is exemplary of everything Lorelai despises about the social sphere in which her parents orbit.
Rory is incredibly attracted to him.
And she’s really afraid to let her mother know this.
Lorelai is quite clear on how she feels about “vapid, selfish” rich people like the Huntzbergers: “These people live in a universe where they feel entitled to get what they want, when they want it, and they don’t care who’s in their way. I hate that world” (“Wedding Bell Blues,” 5-13).
The romance blossoms anyway, and Rory keeps that pretty quiet. But then Logan’s father undercuts Rory’s abilities as a journalist. In the grips of an extreme meltdown, Rory proceeds to steal a boat with Logan, get arrested, and drop out of Yale.
Lorelai handles the theft and arrest parts of the meltdown with all the coolness of a young, hip mom. But she can’t stand the idea that Rory is giving up her Ivy League education—the opportunity that Lorelai never had. Mother and daughter have it out, and Lorelai blames Logan, saying everything has gone wrong since Rory started seeing him.
Rory—perhaps sensing that she’s gonna need some distance from Lorelai over the summer to keep things going with Logan—moves in to her grandparents’ pool house. She also joins the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) and basically becomes an Emily clone. It’s the grandmother of all insults. The ultimate betrayal. Rory has defected. Gone over to the other side. Become one of them.
And, most traumatically for Gilmore Girls viewers across the nation, Rory stops speaking to Lorelai. They are incommunicado. Lorelai, who’s been dating Luke for the past year, takes drastic action: she flat out proposes marriage. He says yes. So for awhile, the Gilmore Girls lead parallel and separate lives. It seems that they can only have serious relationships with men if they’re not speaking to each other. It’s distressing. The whole best-friend mom and daughter thing has totally backfired!
It’s understandable that Lorelai would want to create a relationship that transcends the usual bond between a mother and daughter. After all, she grew up feeling constrained by her mother’s needs and demands. In order to flourish, she had to rebel against Emily and everything she stood for. As Lorelai says: “My whole life, my whole existence, my essence, my being, my ability to be the sparkling creature who stands before you, all of this depends on the complete and total separation of my life from my mother’s life” (”The Fundamental Things Apply,” 4-5).
Her best-friend mom and daughter strategy is geared towards keeping that unhappy situation from repeating. As they say: you can’t choose your relatives, but you can choose your friends. So, the “bestfriend” bond proclaims: “I am with Rory because we chose to be
I don’t know exactly when my daughter lost her virginity. For a long time, I assumed this was something I would most certainly know. I thought, when the time came, I’d be too curious not to ask. But the more she was doing, the more I shied away from the specifics. It just didn’t seem like my business. My comments became more cautionary, hers more dismissive.
ME: Please just make sure that you only have sex with someone when you’re in a loving, happy relationship.
HER: Mom, you’ve been watching too much Gilmore Girls .
In any case, the relationship with Dean does not last long. Rory is settling in at Yale; basically, he has no chance. Rory becomes preoccupied with the ultimate threat to the mom and daughter best-friend bond: Logan Huntzberger.
Logan, a student at Yale, is the son of an extremely wealthy newspaperman. His family is exemplary of everything Lorelai despises about the social sphere in which her parents orbit.
Rory is incredibly attracted to him.
And she’s really afraid to let her mother know this.
Lorelai is quite clear on how she feels about “vapid, selfish” rich people like the Huntzbergers: “These people live in a universe where they feel entitled to get what they want, when they want it, and they don’t care who’s in their way. I hate that world” (“Wedding Bell Blues,” 5-13).
The romance blossoms anyway, and Rory keeps that pretty quiet. But then Logan’s father undercuts Rory’s abilities as a journalist. In the grips of an extreme meltdown, Rory proceeds to steal a boat with Logan, get arrested, and drop out of Yale.
Lorelai handles the theft and arrest parts of the meltdown with all the coolness of a young, hip mom. But she can’t stand the idea that Rory is giving up her Ivy League education—the opportunity that Lorelai never had. Mother and daughter have it out, and Lorelai blames Logan, saying everything has gone wrong since Rory started seeing him.
Rory—perhaps sensing that she’s gonna need some distance from Lorelai over the summer to keep things going with Logan—moves in to her grandparents’ pool house. She also joins the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) and basically becomes an Emily clone. It’s the grandmother of all insults. The ultimate betrayal. Rory has defected. Gone over to the other side. Become one of them.
And, most traumatically for Gilmore Girls viewers across the nation, Rory stops speaking to Lorelai. They are incommunicado. Lorelai, who’s been dating Luke for the past year, takes drastic action: she flat out proposes marriage. He says yes. So for awhile, the Gilmore Girls lead parallel and separate lives. It seems that they can only have serious relationships with men if they’re not speaking to each other. It’s distressing. The whole best-friend mom and daughter thing has totally backfired!
It’s understandable that Lorelai would want to create a relationship that transcends the usual bond between a mother and daughter. After all, she grew up feeling constrained by her mother’s needs and demands. In order to flourish, she had to rebel against Emily and everything she stood for. As Lorelai says: “My whole life, my whole existence, my essence, my being, my ability to be the sparkling creature who stands before you, all of this depends on the complete and total separation of my life from my mother’s life” (”The Fundamental Things Apply,” 4-5).
Her best-friend mom and daughter strategy is geared towards keeping that unhappy situation from repeating. As they say: you can’t choose your relatives, but you can choose your friends. So, the “bestfriend” bond proclaims: “I am with Rory because we chose to be
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