Wow. I just googled "Holy Shit Quotient" and got 12,600 hits.
That one's out in the world now, propagating itself.
I have finesse! I have finesse coming out of my bottom!
Anya ,'Showtime'
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."
DavidS - Jul 25, 2010 7:32:57 pm PDT #11778 of 28343
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
sumi - Jul 25, 2010 8:15:26 pm PDT #11779 of 28343
Art Crawl!!!
That's excellent.
DavidS - Jul 25, 2010 8:25:20 pm PDT #11780 of 28343
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That's excellent.
It's cool. Not in a puffed up, "ahh, the wonder of me" Peter Pan way. But just seeing the process by which information is disseminated. It's like a little marked bit of language that I'm conscious of because I coined it. It got disseminated through TV Tropes and TWOP and got out into the world.
Strix - Jul 26, 2010 5:50:43 am PDT #11781 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
You should totally let erinaceous know. It would be cool, from an etymological point of view, to actually have a verbal ground zero to trace it from, like over a ten year or 20 year period.
sumi - Jul 26, 2010 6:14:36 am PDT #11782 of 28343
Art Crawl!!!
Yes, you totally should. (Wouldn't erinaceous know anyway?)
Jesse - Jul 26, 2010 7:18:48 am PDT #11783 of 28343
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Got the book, Dawn! Thanks!!
Kate P. - Jul 26, 2010 8:30:32 am PDT #11784 of 28343
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Has anyone here read Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel? I just finished reading it and thought it was well written and interesting, but I noticed there were strong opinions in both directions on amazon.com.
My coworkers and I read it a few months ago and blogged/podcasted a bit about it here, though none of us had a very positive opinion about it. I think it certainly succeeded in arousing an emotional reaction, but I really didn't like how it was done.
DawnK - Jul 26, 2010 10:36:10 am PDT #11785 of 28343
giraffe mode
Got the book, Dawn! Thanks!!
Wow that was fast, I mailed it on Friday - Go USPS! Enjoy!
DavidS - Jul 26, 2010 1:32:11 pm PDT #11786 of 28343
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Yes, you totally should. (Wouldn't erinaceous know anyway?)
It is listed on Wordnik, but it doesn't have any cites.
sj - Jul 26, 2010 3:54:42 pm PDT #11787 of 28343
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
My coworkers and I read it a few months ago and blogged/podcasted a bit about it here, though none of us had a very positive opinion about it. I think it certainly succeeded in arousing an emotional reaction, but I really didn't like how it was done.
I thought it was done very well, but I did figure out pretty early where they were headed with it.