You're not helping, Hec.
Who said I was helpful?
I think "taunty" is the word you're looking for.
Harrow: You didn't have to wound that man. Mal: Yeah, I know, it was just funny.
'Shindig'
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 - Sep 13, 2006 8:59:30 am PDT #1240 of 28135
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DavidS - Sep 13, 2006 9:01:25 am PDT #1241 of 28135
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
but it's not nearly as nice as rummaging through a used book store.
It really is excellent for rummaging. Particularly with all the vintage movie magazines from 1916 through the fifties.
Plus they've got all these odd little bits and pieces stashed away on the shelves. Old pulp mags. Zines. Vintage photographs and postcards. Pretty much everything collectable on paper.
askye - Sep 13, 2006 9:02:28 am PDT #1242 of 28135
Thrive to spite them
Why are they closing?
DavidS - Sep 13, 2006 9:14:19 am PDT #1243 of 28135
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Why are they closing?
The owner's retiring after 25 years of running the bookstore, and longer than that in the business.
megan walker - Sep 13, 2006 9:24:08 am PDT #1244 of 28135
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
It really is excellent for rummaging. Particularly with all the vintage movie magazines from 1916 through the fifties.
Hey Taunty McTauntpants, that's going over the line. You can stop now.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 13, 2006 9:51:38 am PDT #1245 of 28135
"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
Maybe I should retaliate by going to the Stax Museum or Sun Studio to look at music memorabillia this weekend?
Lee - Sep 13, 2006 9:58:46 am PDT #1246 of 28135
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Maybe I should retaliate by going to the Stax Museum or Sun Studio to look at music memorabillia this weekend?
ooh, and then Juliana and Emily and I can describe our Commanders Palace meal in excrutiating detail.
Fred Pete - Sep 13, 2006 10:05:51 am PDT #1247 of 28135
Ann, that's a ferret.
And then I can...
I can...
I can...
Rats. I need to move to a city with some life in it.
Strega - Sep 13, 2006 10:10:14 am PDT #1248 of 28135
I managed to spend $60+ without rummaging. Dunsany! Lafferty! Authors not ending in "Y"!
Tom Scola - Sep 14, 2006 7:45:18 am PDT #1249 of 28135
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
J. K. Rowling's manuscript almost confiscated by airport security: [link]