"I WAS IN THE POOL!"
Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything.
Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'
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."
Aims - Aug 16, 2006 1:52:27 pm PDT #1167 of 28134
Shit's all sorts of different now.
sarameg - Aug 16, 2006 5:39:05 pm PDT #1168 of 28134
Probably had to pick from native nuts (insert puns here.)
Are cashews native to Brazil? I mean, brazil nuts?
Nutty - Aug 17, 2006 6:56:32 am PDT #1169 of 28134
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Anybody here read the Lou Gehrig biography, Luckiest Man by Jonathan Eig?
Let us say that, despite the uninspired title, it is a bit of a waterworks.
Volans - Aug 22, 2006 7:57:37 am PDT #1170 of 28134
move out and draw fire
What book was "French Canadian bean soup" a mantra in? It seems like something from the Illuminatus trilogy, and I have this vague idea tha FCBS was significant.
I keep thinking it was from the Julian May books, though...not the Pleiocene Exile but the modern-day ones with the Remillard family. But that's probably just the French-Canadian stuff.
DavidS - Aug 24, 2006 6:47:32 am PDT #1171 of 28134
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Whee! I was looking through Tim Goodman's blog at SFGate and in the comments from readers I came across this recommendation:
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As to reference books, Erin McKean, who writes dictionaries and stuff (and is a stone cold fox in a reference booksish sort of way... okay, so I got kind of a crush on her since seeing her speak at Clean Well-Lighted Place a couple years ago) blogged about interesting reference books a couple months ago... even better are the books mentioned in the comments section:
Posted By: curiousfool | August 02 2006 at 10:10 AM
JoeCrow - Aug 24, 2006 7:05:19 pm PDT #1172 of 28134
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
"French Canadian bean soup"
From the last words of Dutch Schultz. And yeah, from the Illuminatus trilogy. Uncle Bob had Dutch's last words as some kinda dada-esque/Joycean code for all the wacky conspiracy stuff Dutch was into. I forget what that bit corresponded to, if he ever specified.
Connie Neil - Aug 25, 2006 8:32:15 am PDT #1173 of 28134
brillig
In Illuminatus!, Dutch's problem was that he was having a conversation across time with someone else. These things always cause confusion.
Volans - Aug 25, 2006 9:35:14 am PDT #1174 of 28134
move out and draw fire
I knew someone here would know. I just ran across it in another book, but I think it was in there as a Dutch ref, not as an Illuminatus ref.
Of course, everything's connected to the Loomers somehow.
sumi - Aug 25, 2006 10:25:28 am PDT #1175 of 28134
Art Crawl!!!
Update on Robert Jordan's health -- apparently, he's just back from the Mayo Clinic.
Strega - Aug 30, 2006 1:28:29 pm PDT #1176 of 28134
Here's a movie summarizing 12 volumes of A Series of Unfortunate Events in 120 seconds. Narrated by Tim Curry.