I'm eleven hundred and twenty years old! Just gimme a friggin' beer!

Anya ,'Storyteller'


Natter 34: Freak With No Name  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Susan W. - Apr 26, 2005 9:27:02 am PDT #8962 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Ack. I should have run to the bookshelf before spouting. I knew the "I married him" part. Do I get half credit?

Of course. It's just that I read Jane Eyre obsessively when I was growing up, and have developed a massive Jane Austen obsession as an adult. And I am pedantic and have a compulsive urge to display my knowledge whenever a chance presents itself.


beekaytee - Apr 26, 2005 9:28:55 am PDT #8963 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

That makes you my Showoff Sistah.

It's one of my most useful, if not charming...erm...charms.

I like being the go-to-gal, and besides, knowing stuff is FUN.

eta: In some other thread, a discussion of the various Jane Eyre movies intrigued me. I loved the Timothy!toopretty Dalton version, but I have to say, the Ciarin Hinds version has become my favorite. I have a bright, shiny copy of the book on my shelf too. A much loved favorite.


beth b - Apr 26, 2005 9:32:31 am PDT #8964 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

ION, I am the reference desk queen. A student came up with a question that went, "I had this great article a librarian found me last week and I lost it. I remember it was a weekly publication and the web site was teal... does the call number 320 have anything to do with it?"

Reader, I found it for him.

damn.


Beverly - Apr 26, 2005 9:33:19 am PDT #8965 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

damn

Now that's high praise, from one librarian to another.


sumi - Apr 26, 2005 9:35:34 am PDT #8966 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

ita! CF has a pilot for scifi?


JZ - Apr 26, 2005 9:38:30 am PDT #8967 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Awww. Emeline is so sweet. And yet (and I totally, seriously mean this as a compliment) she's not even super-photogenic. Pictures of her give you an idea of her cutiefulness, but the actual three-dimensional Emeline is exponentially more graceful and elegant and gorgeous. She's gonna grow up to be the female Matt: someone whose pictures wow you until you meet them in person, and then you're just completely flattened by the "this-charisma-goes-to-eleven" force of their full gorgeousness.

Also, something about her bone structure makes her look so much like her father in pictures, but in real life she's a beautiful balance of both Joe and Aimée, with a big healthy dose of looking exactly like her own unique self and nobody else.

And even so--such cutiehead pictures!

ION, I feel all twitchy and nervous. Trevor Hoffman, a pitcher for the Padre,s was here reading stories to the kids, and I went and talked to him for a few minutes, showed him a picture of Emmett, and got him to sign pictures for Emmett and for my friend's son Max, who is autistic (this guy has friends with an autistic child and has appeared at some benefits in San Diego). I'd never heard of him before. I don't even like baseball that much. And I'm still all residually nervous and meltdowny. Just dumb.


Scrappy - Apr 26, 2005 9:40:12 am PDT #8968 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

JZ is the sweetest.


beekaytee - Apr 26, 2005 9:41:48 am PDT #8969 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

ita! CF has a pilot for scifi?

I like the premise of the pilot, but isn't this what happens already in Buffistaland?

The resulting collection of brainpower has led to a way of life years ahead of the rest of the world,


§ ita § - Apr 26, 2005 9:57:54 am PDT #8970 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

CF has a pilot for scifi?

Ayup! He's been up north for a week now. I think the premise has promise (promisey premise), and it seems like he has good ideas they're letting him air.

My fingers are crossed.


sumi - Apr 26, 2005 9:58:53 am PDT #8971 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Good overall cast too.