Toby Daye fans! I must share the gorgeous new cover of One Salt Sea. Not only beautiful, but also rather intriguing.
Mal: Ready? Zoe: Always.
'Serenity'
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."
Polter-Cow - Apr 11, 2011 12:11:57 pm PDT #14353 of 28291
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
sumi - Apr 11, 2011 12:13:49 pm PDT #14354 of 28291
Art Crawl!!!
le nubian - I'm glad you like it.
Laga - Apr 14, 2011 5:54:39 am PDT #14355 of 28291
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Julie & Julia is reminding me a lot of Marley & Me. I like the writing stlye. I'm entertained, but it's frustrating reading about people making things harder for themselves. I got so worked up I went down to the library to look at a copy of Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Lo and behold it's right there in the introduction. Julia says if you take shortcuts you're missing the point and she stresses that before you even go shopping you need to read the recipe. I wish Julie had taken the time to read the introduction. My notes include, "the butcher will split a marrow bone for you" "dude, cooking thermometer" and "if this were fiction I would think Julie is heading toward a terrible comeuppance."
Tom Scola - Apr 14, 2011 8:36:52 am PDT #14356 of 28291
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
George R. R. Martin, you suck. . . . Pull your fucking typewriter out of your ass and start fucking typing.
Jessica - Apr 14, 2011 8:39:48 am PDT #14357 of 28291
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Counterpoint: [link]
hippocampus - Apr 14, 2011 8:47:21 am PDT #14358 of 28291
not your mom's socks.
Loving Jessica's and Tom's links.
Slate's take on the HBO version (still reading, not sure how I feel): [link]
Consuela - Apr 14, 2011 9:03:02 am PDT #14359 of 28291
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Is Slate trying to piss people off? Oh, wait, yes, it is. Because then people will post links and they'll get more traffic.
A reasonably-written review that made an attempt at discussing the value of the show wouldn't get nearly as much traction as that will.
Gris - Apr 14, 2011 9:04:43 am PDT #14360 of 28291
Hey. New board.
Vomit.
Consuela - Apr 14, 2011 9:05:42 am PDT #14361 of 28291
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Unlike some of the commenters, I don't insist someone must be a fan of the genre to review a tv show. And there may be some value in that review, but it's buried in the impenetrable prose.
§ ita § - Apr 14, 2011 9:06:08 am PDT #14362 of 28291
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I thought the whole point was that it wasn't dragon-ridden.
I'm not very far in.