I was in AP English senior year, so I feel like my teacher would have encouraged us to do it otherwise
Oh, yeah, if Mr. Berryhill had had a way to show off his star students, he'd have done it.
You're not gonna jokey-rhyme your way out of this one.
Willow ,'Sleeper'
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."
Connie Neil - Nov 15, 2006 10:34:26 am PST #1590 of 28160
brillig
Hil R. - Nov 15, 2006 2:23:38 pm PST #1591 of 28160
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I graduated high school in '79, so maybe I predate these things?
I just checked the website -- Academic Decathlon started in 1981.
Sheryl - Nov 15, 2006 2:39:20 pm PST #1592 of 28160
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
The only knowledge-based competition I can recall from my high school was the Math team. Not quite the same as the stuff you folks mentioned...
beth b - Nov 15, 2006 8:10:25 pm PST #1593 of 28160
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
ok. if you ever get the chance to see Nancy Pearl, the author of Book Lust and More Book Lust, speak, GO. very entertaining. even if you are a really picky reader she 's got stuff for you. and Besides - she is the only Librarian I know , other than BatGirl, that has her own action figure.
and the action figure
IAmNotReallyASpring - Nov 16, 2006 3:48:14 pm PST #1594 of 28160
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
Random nugget I stumbled upon that's old but perhaps not old news.
Anthony Minghella's rather excellent film adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Play.
Tom Scola - Nov 20, 2006 7:46:24 am PST #1595 of 28160
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Thomas Pynchon’s new novel, “Against the Day,” reads like the sort of imitation of a Thomas Pynchon novel that a dogged but ungainly fan of this author’s might have written on quaaludes. It is a humongous, bloated jigsaw puzzle of a story, pretentious without being provocative, elliptical without being illuminating, complicated without being rewardingly complex.
Review is by Michiko Kakutani, so adjust your rhetorical filters accordingly.
Ginger - Nov 20, 2006 8:37:44 pm PST #1596 of 28160
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I just saw that Jack Williamson died [link] I had started to hope he was going to live forever. He was such a nice guy.
§ ita § - Nov 25, 2006 5:26:25 pm PST #1597 of 28160
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Does Terry Goodkind write good books? I mean, is there an overarching context that can make one excuse these snippets of evil chicken?
beth b - Nov 25, 2006 8:38:23 pm PST #1598 of 28160
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I have no idea where those quotes cam from . I adored the first few books.( at least the first two ) but while I read the ( 4th?) I wanted to throw it across the room. I was bored and frustrated. so I might have missed the parts about the chicken
Strix - Nov 26, 2006 6:39:16 am PST #1599 of 28160
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, I remember the evil chicken! I think it actually was in book one. I read the first 4 or 5 books, but then they just got terribly tedious and uninteresting, and I am a lover of the long series of books.