Stop that right now! I can hear the smacking!

Giles ,'Never Leave Me'


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."


-t - Oct 05, 2006 2:47:56 pm PDT #1321 of 28144
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

In the intro to "Monarch of the Glen" in the audiobook I heard it in (Legends something or other, I forget), Gaiman says that he thought of American Gods as a setting that he could explore many other characters with, and he hadn't planned on revisiting Shadow until he was approached to write the story for Legends whatchamacallit.

"Monarch" left me confused, I have to say. But that may be from listening to it rather than reading it, it's a more difficult medium for me to pay attention to.


brenda m - Oct 05, 2006 3:00:41 pm PDT #1322 of 28144
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

"Monarch of the Glen"

Wait, isn't that a TV show? Confused.


-t - Oct 05, 2006 3:24:49 pm PDT #1323 of 28144
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Maybe it's both? Or maybe I got the title wrong, but I thought that was it. Also a painting of a stag, I think, so maybe bothe the short story and TV show are named for the painting?


sumi - Oct 05, 2006 3:27:14 pm PDT #1324 of 28144
Art Crawl!!!

Yes, I believe that the painting has been famous longer than either of those things.


Typo Boy - Oct 05, 2006 3:57:03 pm PDT #1325 of 28144
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Fragile consisted entire or almost entirely of things that had already been published elsewhere. He even turned his one-off comic "Harlequin" into a short story. [I did not much care for it in either version.]"Sunbird", an homage to R.A. Lafferty gets Lafferty's voice down almost perfectly. [Close enough for me to say he should have cut out the last sentence, but great none-the-less.]


Atropa - Oct 05, 2006 8:04:22 pm PDT #1326 of 28144
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

He even turned his one-off comic "Harlequin" into a short story.

If you mean "Harlequin Valentine", it was a short story before it was a comic.


Typo Boy - Oct 05, 2006 9:16:02 pm PDT #1327 of 28144
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

OK - too me-centric there. I saw it first as a comic, assumed that was how it started out.


Volans - Oct 06, 2006 5:13:46 am PDT #1328 of 28144
move out and draw fire

Speaking of Gaiman, in the Eternals, who is Druigo?


Hayden - Oct 16, 2006 7:32:05 pm PDT #1329 of 28144
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Knut, Novelist.


Consuela - Oct 16, 2006 7:42:44 pm PDT #1330 of 28144
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Oh, that's awesome. Tell him to come by so we can shower him with virtual drinks!