I like it. Quite a lot.
Mal: Can I come in? Inara: No. Mal: See? That's why I usually don't ask.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
-t - Jun 19, 2006 7:37:41 am PDT #7246 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
flea - Jun 19, 2006 7:47:01 am PDT #7247 of 10001
information libertarian
Can I make a library plug for your research on the contemporary mid-90s stuff? SFPL (and Berkeley or somewhere) will have magazines like Vibe - which is my memory of the big hip-hop magazine from the 90s - in backfile, either in paper or on microfilm (SFPL certainly says they have Vibe from 1993 on, but I can't make enough sense of their record to see what format the older ones are in). You can read about 1995, for example, as it happened, see what was hot each week and month. Rolling Stone I'm sure would be available though of course it's much more mainstream, and there may be other smaller magazines I'm not aware of, but your sources would know titles and then you can send the librarians happily scurrying to find them for you.
Signed, geeky about library research.
deborah grabien - Jun 19, 2006 7:49:42 am PDT #7248 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
wrong thread...
deborah grabien - Jun 19, 2006 7:55:24 am PDT #7249 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
_t, my friend Danyel was editor for Vibe for awhile; she still contributes.
editing because that's flea, not _t...
Steph L. - Jun 19, 2006 8:52:28 am PDT #7250 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Deb, do you have any Lauryn Hill, or Fugees? I think you'd like The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which I have and and YSI to you.
deborah grabien - Jun 19, 2006 8:56:25 am PDT #7251 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Tep, alas, I loathe Lauryn Hill. She drives me nuts. I do love her guitarist, though; Wyclef can seriously play.
Steph L. - Jun 19, 2006 9:04:49 am PDT #7252 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
New drabble time!
Challenge #113 (hunger) is now closed.
Challenge #114 is photos from the Look At Me Web site. We haven't done that in a while, and there were some photos that were too good to pass up. I keep wanting to write captions (rather than drabbles) for them.
When you post your drabble, please mention which photo it is that you're using. Thanks!
One.
Two.
Four.
Five.
Six.
Seven. (OMGWTFPOLARBEAR?!?)
Nine.
Ten.
Amy - Jun 19, 2006 9:06:13 am PDT #7253 of 10001
Because books.
Seven. (OMGWTFPOLARBEAR?!?)
Bwah!
Steph L. - Jun 19, 2006 9:07:57 am PDT #7254 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Seven. (OMGWTFPOLARBEAR?!?)
Bwah!
I mean, THE HELL?!? That kid was probably traumatized for life.
Unless he became lunch. In which case, he was still traumatized for life, but it was just a very short life.
Strix - Jun 19, 2006 9:19:07 am PDT #7255 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
The mid 90's -- I remember a lot of Yo!MTV Raps, Run-DMC, Biggie, Snoop, Cypress Hill, the Fugee's. I have a hrd love for the Beastie Boys, but that's me.
Trivia: the most useful words to know right now (coming from a H.S. teacher with mostly hip-hop crazy minority teens) are "bootsie" - means highly uncool, as in "Ms. G, them shoes are too bootsie!"
Jeffin' -- Which is frontin', basically -- faking it, being a poseur. "Ms. G ain't jeffin'. She real."
And the all-too-popular mugging. "To mug" someone is to stare them down, or just give a dirty look. Muggin' someone starts many a fight. "But Ms. G, didn't you see him muggin' me?!"
And that's all I got right now, though I will ask around and get my memory refreshed by some of my friends who were more into hip-hop than I was in college.