Neil Gaiman linked to a blog with posts about weird things customers say in a bookstore. It's hysterical. link
Faith: A kid. Angel's got a kid. Wesley: Connor. Faith: A teenage kid born last year. Wesley: I told you, he grew up in a hell dimension. Faith: Right. And what, Cordelia spent her last summer as… Wesley: A divine being. Faith: Uh-huh. Can I just ask--What the hell are you people doing?
'Why We Fight'
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."
sj - Jun 20, 2011 10:46:29 am PDT #15368 of 28289
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Ginger - Jun 20, 2011 5:50:14 pm PDT #15369 of 28289
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In History [link]
Gertrude Stein on Ezra Pound: “A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.”
Vladimir Nabokov on Ernest Hemingway: “As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.”
Liese S. - Jun 20, 2011 5:50:59 pm PDT #15370 of 28289
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
bells, balls and bulls
Hahahah that's so great.
Laga - Jun 21, 2011 7:33:43 am PDT #15371 of 28289
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Customer: I read a book in the eighties. I don't remember the author, or the title. But it was green, and it made me laugh. Do you know which one I mean?
I had that one too, they were handing them out on campus, my first day of college.
sumi - Jun 21, 2011 11:02:35 am PDT #15372 of 28289
Art Crawl!!!
New cover for Persuasion - ???
Consuela - Jun 21, 2011 11:37:52 am PDT #15373 of 28289
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
wth, sumi? That makes very little sense to me, and it certainly doesn't look like Anne.
sumi - Jun 21, 2011 1:04:56 pm PDT #15374 of 28289
Art Crawl!!!
I know - it makes it look like she's being strangled by some sort of carnivorous vine.
Dana - Jun 21, 2011 3:39:53 pm PDT #15375 of 28289
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Strangled by...the stuffy conventions of Regency society?
Laga - Jun 22, 2011 6:31:51 am PDT #15376 of 28289
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
So help me I'm kind of excited to see what JKR is announcing tonight.
zuisa - Jun 22, 2011 7:35:59 am PDT #15377 of 28289
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Me too!!!!!