Also, I used to work with three people who were Gorean slave girls in SL. In real life they were all men over the age of 60.
For some reason, I just find this delightful.
Willow: Something evil-crashed to earth in this. Then it broke out and slithered away to do badness.
Giles: Well, in all fairness, we don't really know about the "slithered" part. Anya: No, no, I'm sure it frisked about like a fluffy lamb.
'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."
Scrappy - Mar 23, 2011 2:04:16 pm PDT #14147 of 28288
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
flea - Mar 23, 2011 3:00:59 pm PDT #14148 of 28288
information libertarian
Oh god, I'm terrified. Also, how did you find out???? Did they tell you????
sj - Mar 23, 2011 3:02:53 pm PDT #14149 of 28288
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
For some reason, I just find this delightful.
Me too.
§ ita § - Mar 23, 2011 3:07:36 pm PDT #14150 of 28288
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I find it horrific! You can't pretend to be consensually oppressed (yes, I think it can be a thing) me! Aiee.
Volans - Mar 23, 2011 4:30:28 pm PDT #14151 of 28288
move out and draw fire
Yes, they told me. Right around the time one of them was describing all the code in the slave collar, and I was like "and you know this how?...oh. Oh. Huh. Is your master really a guy?"
But it's sort of a rule ofnthumb that if the fem a,e avatar's boobs are bigger than her head, she's being run by a guy.
Hil R. - Mar 24, 2011 1:07:41 pm PDT #14152 of 28288
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Skipped a bunch of posts, but I just noticed this book, and needed to say WTF? [link]
Book: The Vampire and the Vegan
Book I: FoodBy Merlene Alicia Vassal.
Pearl, a temptress vampire living in Washington, DC, discovers that the blood of her next would-be victim, Salaam, lacks that certain something she craves -- necromantic energy that comes from eating meat. Yet he may offer her something that she needs even more...
Through fast-paced prose peppered with surprises, The Vampire and the Vegan explores the complex relationship between a carnivore and her food.
180 pages.
This book contains adult language and content.
I haven't figured out yet whether this is just a really weird story or if it's the newest idea for books to get teenagers to go vegan.
It has a website! [link] Which seems to support the "book to get teenagers to go vegan" theory.
hippocampus - Mar 24, 2011 2:17:04 pm PDT #14153 of 28288
not your mom's socks.
Oh I found a pretty. Genevieve Valentine. [link]
DavidS - Mar 28, 2011 8:13:09 am PDT #14154 of 28288
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've been meaning to pimp three non-fiction books, some of which I've already mentioned.
1. Secret Historian is a biography of Samuel Steward, who had a very fascinating life:
The novelist and professor at a Roman Catholic university who was born in 1909 into an austere and puritanical Methodist household in Ohio was Samuel M. Steward. But as the author of gay pulp fiction, he went by Phil Andros and a half-dozen other pseudonyms; Hells Angels in Oakland, Calif., who used him as their official tattoo artist, called him Doc Sparrow; readers of his articles in underground newspapers and magazines knew him as Ward Stames. To a close circle of artistic friends like Wilder, Cadmus, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Christopher Isherwood, the photographer George Platt Lynes and others, he was simply Sammy.
He kept detailed accounts of all of his gay sexual experiences in the pre-Stonewall era and was a major resources for Kinsey's research. Most of the book draws from his own letters and journals and he's a very witty and thoughtful writer creating a secret history of what was then a gay underground as a sexual outlaw.
2. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand - which probably doesn't need much pimping as it topped the NY Times Bestseller list. But if you know somebody that gobbles up histories and WWII stories, she's a fantastically vivid writer and Louie Zamperini's story is incredible.
3. The Lampshade by Marc Jacobson. What's interesting about the book - which concerns the author coming into possession of a lampshade made out of human skin that's found in New Orleans after Katrina - isn't so much the finding of the mythical Nazi horror object, but the weird underworld of Nazi memorabilia collectors, holocaust deniers, New Orleans grave robbers, DNA specialists and cantors he interviews as he tries to track down the origin of the thing. It's an oddly shaped and sort of shaggy book, but its compelling because it has a serious moral question at its core: how do you respond to real horror? When you face the fact of human evil and suffering, what is right action? Katrina, 911, the Holocaust and a sleezy underworld worthy of your favorite crime novelist.
Steph L. - Mar 28, 2011 8:22:36 am PDT #14155 of 28288
I look more rad than Lutheranism
The Lampshade by Marc Jacobson.
I heard a piece on NPR about this, some months back. Definitely creepy, but also intriguing.
DavidS - Mar 28, 2011 8:25:42 am PDT #14156 of 28288
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I heard a piece on NPR about this, some months back. Definitely creepy, but also intriguing.
It's kind of like Treme or a Carl Hiassen novel, an Elmore Leonard. It's a bizarre mix of characters, and it makes for an interesting story beyond the lampshade itself. It's very digressive and goes off on long sections about Ilsa Koch and the NYC coroner who is also a cantor and the NOLA graverobber. But that's actually what makes the book interesting.