So, how was your summer? Mine was fun. Saw some fish. Went mad with hunger. Hallucinated a whole bunch.

Angel ,'Conviction (1)'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


Polter-Cow - Jul 08, 2006 7:49:13 pm PDT #1017 of 28095
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Gris, I was raised in the 80s too. And the Peanuts talk made me click around in Wikipedia to refresh my memory, and I was surprised by how much I'd been exposed to the characters. I don't really like the strip much because it's not that funny and it spoiled Citizen Kane for me, but it's so much of a cultural thing.


Volans - Jul 08, 2006 7:55:23 pm PDT #1018 of 28095
move out and draw fire

it spoiled Citizen Kane for me

Heh. I remember reading that strip when I was like 4, and totally not getting it. But the spoilage for Citizen Kane is so pervasive I can't blame Peanuts.

(And being raised in the 80s doesn't excuse the lack of Pooh)


DebetEsse - Jul 08, 2006 7:59:22 pm PDT #1019 of 28095
Woe to the fucking wicked.

My father collected the books, back in the day, so I know the print version quite well. However, I just within the past few years saw the Christmas Special for the first time, and I still haven't seen any of the others (that I recall). I may be Sally, but mostly by default.


Gris - Jul 08, 2006 8:22:58 pm PDT #1020 of 28095
Hey. New board.

And being raised in the 80s doesn't excuse the lack of Pooh

I make no excuses for that. Well, other than "My parents didn't read it to me." Not sure why - I got plenty of other books.


Topic!Cindy - Jul 09, 2006 3:38:26 am PDT #1021 of 28095
What is even happening?

I was raised in the 80s. By the time I was looking at comic strips, Peanuts was WELL past its peak. Calvin and Hobbes was my love.
I figured TV exposure like A Charlie Brown Christmas and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, were enough.
I liked the movie that Charlie Brown was in the spelling bee, though.
I don't remember that one. I think I'm a snob about which Charlie Brown TV movies I accept as canon.


DavidS - Jul 09, 2006 7:12:35 am PDT #1022 of 28095
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I liked the movie that Charlie Brown was in the spelling bee, though.

I don't remember that one. I think I'm a snob about which Charlie Brown TV movies I accept as canon.

Awww, c'mon that's one of the few theatrically released movies that's good. Don't you remember the word he misspelled?

JZ and I caught Snoopy Come Home on TiVo and she was getting all caught up in it and knew the songs.


Gris - Jul 09, 2006 7:13:25 am PDT #1023 of 28095
Hey. New board.

Don't you remember the word he misspelled?

I do!


Topic!Cindy - Jul 09, 2006 7:37:33 am PDT #1024 of 28095
What is even happening?

Awww, c'mon that's one of the few theatrically released movies that's good. Don't you remember the word he misspelled?

Was it Snoopy Come Home, or another? I don't remember the spelling bee, which doesn't mean I didn't see the film; I just can't remember it.


Volans - Jul 09, 2006 8:33:29 am PDT #1025 of 28095
move out and draw fire

Was Peanuts supposed to be funny? Sometimes it was (at least to me, age 5), but it was just as often sad or profound.

Calvin and Hobbes is brilliant, but doesn't really lend itself to categorizing people...unless there really are only two kinds of people in this world.

But if we're talking 80s, then...I call Binkley! With a dash of Milo.


DavidS - Jul 09, 2006 11:04:52 am PDT #1026 of 28095
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

But if we're talking 80s, then...I call Binkley! With a dash of Milo.

I totally want a huge Bloom County box set like the Calvin set.