Buffy? I like that. That girl's so hot, she's buffy.

Forrest ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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."


Katerina Bee - Feb 08, 2010 3:36:30 pm PST #10941 of 28354
Herding cats for fun

Decided there's no way I can destroy a book published in 1880. Even if the bookstore did give it to me for a carved book project, I just can't.

Crap!! That means it will have to go into the pile of books that are too good to get rid of, oh woe is me, for I am ever too short of shelf space.

No, instead I think I'll sink my exacto knife into an outdated PDR I picked up for the gilded edges. I have no real qualms about taking that one away from future generations of bibliophiles.

Will have to keep an eye out for one of those giant legal books so I can do a project with a lot of depth.


Connie Neil - Feb 08, 2010 5:11:10 pm PST #10942 of 28354
brillig

Yay, preservation!

Are there any copies of Sarah Palin's bio around you can practice on?


Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 08, 2010 6:14:37 pm PST #10943 of 28354
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Can you carve a dartboard out of a book?


Toddson - Feb 16, 2010 8:33:36 am PST #10944 of 28354
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

it's thin ... won't require much carving


sumi - Feb 17, 2010 9:01:36 am PST #10945 of 28354
Art Crawl!!!

Somebody has made mock webpages for various instituions associated with A Song of Ice and Fire - spoilery if you haven't read all the books.


DavidS - Feb 17, 2010 8:42:04 pm PST #10946 of 28354
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Brief discussion tonight with Matilda included literary allusion.

Emmett: You're getting very big.
Matilda: I'm a big girl. I'm very tall. And I'm strong. Feel my muscles.
Me: You do have strong muscles.
Matilda: I'm very strong. I could fight The Trunchbull.
Me: You could. What would you do if you fought the Trunchbull?
Matilda: I'd cut her head off.
JZ: Don't you think it's enough to throw you lunch at her?
Me: No, she's got the right idea.
Matilda: I'd cut her head off.


Strix - Feb 17, 2010 9:09:41 pm PST #10947 of 28354
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Wee despot!


Kathy A - Feb 18, 2010 6:13:06 am PST #10948 of 28354
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Trunchbull?


Kat - Feb 18, 2010 6:50:56 am PST #10949 of 28354
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Ms. Trunchbull is the horrible mean Head of School in the book Matilda.


Hayden - Feb 18, 2010 8:51:10 am PST #10950 of 28354
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

I'm very strong. I could fight The Trunchbull

Awesome. We just read that to Abe last month.