I didn't know who GRRM was before HBO picked up AGoT but I understood that sentence perfectly.
Zoe: Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity? Wash: You're pretty much down to ritual suicide, lambie-toes.
'War Stories'
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."
Laga - May 13, 2011 3:11:52 pm PDT #14696 of 28293
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
sumi - May 13, 2011 3:53:16 pm PDT #14697 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
Hey, if you can't understand the message - then it probably wasn't for you.
Strix - May 13, 2011 6:20:58 pm PDT #14698 of 28293
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I got everything but ASOIAF.
sumi - May 13, 2011 6:29:55 pm PDT #14699 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
A Song of Ice and Fire (that's the name of the series.)
Amy - May 13, 2011 7:19:28 pm PDT #14700 of 28293
Because books.
I knew that!
Consuela - May 13, 2011 8:38:42 pm PDT #14701 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, this is marvelous: [link]
Rudyard Kipling at 23 hunts down Samuel Clemens.
You are a contemptible lot, over yonder. Some of you are Commissioners, and some Lieutenant-Governors, and some have the V. C., and a few are privileged to walk about the Mall arm in arm with the Viceroy; but I have seen Mark Twain this golden morning, have shaken his hand, and smoked a cigar—no, two cigars—with him, and talked with him for more than two hours! Understand clearly that I do not despise you; indeed, I don’t. I am only very sorry for you, from the Viceroy downward. To soothe your envy and to prove that I still regard you as my equals, I will tell you all about it.
hippocampus - May 14, 2011 5:34:31 am PDT #14702 of 28293
not your mom's socks.
x posted with Bitches... I seem to have written a what's on your bookshelf post - I'm worried I sound like a wackaloon (more than usual). [link]
DavidS - May 14, 2011 5:40:45 am PDT #14703 of 28293
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You don't sound like a wackaloon; you sound like a bibliophile.
Rudyard Kipling at 23 hunts down Samuel Clemens.
Heh...
Have you ever, encumbered with great-coat and valise, tried to dodge diversely-minded locomotives when the sun was shining in your eyes?
No, sir, I have not!
There's a great account by Kipling of coming to San Francisco and meeting two office girls at work and his portrait of them is so fond and besotted with their liveliness and bold independence.
hippocampus - May 14, 2011 5:44:35 am PDT #14704 of 28293
not your mom's socks.
You don't sound like a wackaloon; you sound like a bibliophile.::grin:: thank you.
Kate P. - May 14, 2011 6:27:56 am PDT #14705 of 28293
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Sox, I just discovered Cat Valente recently too! She has a middle grade novel coming out this month, I think, called The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, and it's fantastic. Now I need to track down everything else she's written...