Zoe: Jayne. This is something the Captain has to do for himself. Mal: No! No, it's not!

'War Stories'


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."


Volans - Aug 02, 2006 9:20:41 am PDT #1120 of 28131
move out and draw fire

No love for Notes About The Typeface?

I am a font ho. I read that first. Sometimes I create my own Questions for Discussion Groups about the typeface choice.


Hayden - Aug 02, 2006 9:22:43 am PDT #1121 of 28131
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Honestly, Cor, doing a gig of nothing but Pynchon songs would pack a house in Austin.

That's a great idea! Our current cover project is working out the first side of The Who Sell Out, commercials and all, with the Distant Seconds (two of whom were in that Kinks cover band I used to play in). We're all playing at a Who Hoot night next month. My band is taking "Armenia, City In The Sky" and "I Can See For Miles". Up for grabs are "Tattoo" and "Our Love Was".


DavidS - Aug 02, 2006 9:39:02 am PDT #1122 of 28131
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Up for grabs are "Tattoo" and "Our Love Was".

Somebody should do "Early Morning, Cold Taxi." The only decent song Roger ever wrote. Speaking of non-Pete songs, I'd love to see you singing "My Wife." Preferably with your wife and Sphere in the audience.

(two of whom were in that Kinks cover band I used to play in).

Incidentally, in SF there's an all-female Kinks cover band. The Minks.


Ginger - Aug 02, 2006 9:47:27 am PDT #1123 of 28131
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

No love for Notes About The Typeface?

Everyone should embrace the colophon.


DavidS - Aug 02, 2006 9:50:18 am PDT #1124 of 28131
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Everyone should embrace the colophon.

::squeezes midsection::

::no, wait that's my colon::

::which if resected would be Teppy's reason for living::


erikaj - Aug 02, 2006 10:01:00 am PDT #1125 of 28131
Always Anti-fascist!

"Excuse me, Mrs. Robinson. I have to be going now. This conversation's getting a little strange."


Emily - Aug 02, 2006 10:25:42 am PDT #1126 of 28131
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

I read Animal Farm early enough that I had no idea what the metaphor was, but it was the most upsetting fucking book I'd ever read.


Hayden - Aug 02, 2006 10:33:10 am PDT #1127 of 28131
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Somebody should do "Early Morning, Cold Taxi." The only decent song Roger ever wrote.

That is a good song. We don't have the wherewithal or time limit to go past side one, though, especially into the bonus tracks.

Speaking of non-Pete songs, I'd love to see you singing "My Wife." Preferably with your wife and Sphere in the audience.

Now you're just trying to get me in trouble.

OT: The Job discussion at the end of the last natter thread made me hope that David Maine will take that story on for his next Biblical novel.


IAmNotReallyASpring - Aug 02, 2006 10:39:27 am PDT #1128 of 28131
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel

I think Boxer's fate was supposed get an emotional response, though.

When I was young, like five or six, the film version broke me. I was inconsolable for hours at home afterwards, then we went to visit my cousins and I spent my time there relating what happened to Boxer and sobbing. I can remember being exhausted from crying.

I think that George Orwell's writing philosophy was like Brecht's-- to incite action rather than emotion.

Isn't the incitement to action the emotional response they've prodded you for though?


Sophia Brooks - Aug 02, 2006 10:40:52 am PDT #1129 of 28131
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Isn't the incitement to action the emotional response they've prodded you for though?

I always think that, and my teachers always sort of argued with me. Although I am not so sure how much action I could take as a blubbering mess!