Pretty, isn't it?
Pretty as a counterfeit twenty. And just as deep. t /hardboiled
Wash: You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress? Jayne: I'll chip in. Zoe: I can hurt you.
'Shindig'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
DavidS - Dec 16, 2004 1:00:03 pm PST #3691 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
joe boucher - Dec 16, 2004 1:21:40 pm PST #3692 of 10001
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
Have you ever read Thomas Berger's Who Is Teddy Villanova?, David? Highly recommended. Really, really funny parody of detective fiction. The language (which is the point of the book, I think) is as stylized as Chandler, Hammett, Cain or Wilder and Diamond (the good folks who brought us Double Indemnity) but in a completely different way. Russell Wren, the narrator, is a wannabe writer working as a private detective. He's pretentious as all get out -- think Dick Cavett at his most over the top and w/o any sense of irony. He makes really arcane references but invariably gets either one-upped by someone he didn't think was very smart or pounded by someone who doesn't want to hear Wren's shtick. The plot is completely absurd, one goofy situation after another. (I'm especially fond of Boris the bus driver and the Francophone reform school girls. The Ganymede episode is a riot, too.) Anyway, if you like to see genre conventions tweaked -- not that Buffy fans would dig something like that -- you should check it out.
DavidS - Dec 16, 2004 2:09:15 pm PST #3693 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Have you ever read Thomas Berger's Who Is Teddy Villanova?
Nope, but you've totally sold me on it. I need to check this out. I bet Nutty would like it too.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 16, 2004 5:17:25 pm PST #3694 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I'm worried I have no credibility, here, but you're just goinna have to take my word for it til you see for yourself.
You're hype-ing Allyson. This cannot end well. IJS.
Allyson - Dec 16, 2004 5:54:45 pm PST #3695 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I would like to permanently ban "IJS" from Buffistas ever more.
Can I get a secondsies?
DXMachina - Dec 16, 2004 5:58:12 pm PST #3696 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
No.
JenP - Dec 16, 2004 6:00:46 pm PST #3697 of 10001
I'll second yours if you second mine. How do you feel about pedant tags?
DXMachina - Dec 16, 2004 6:01:27 pm PST #3698 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Pedant tags are useful. IJS.
§ ita § - Dec 16, 2004 6:03:04 pm PST #3699 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
NSM.
JenP - Dec 16, 2004 6:04:06 pm PST #3700 of 10001
ITA.