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...
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'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."
Sheryl - Nov 15, 2006 2:39:20 pm PST #1592 of 28611
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
beth b - Nov 15, 2006 8:10:25 pm PST #1593 of 28611
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 28611
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 28611
They pay me in WOIMS
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 28611
"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 28611
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 28611
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 28611
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.
sumi - Nov 29, 2006 7:20:40 am PST #1600 of 28611
Art Crawl!!!
Has anyone read Bujold's The Sharing Knife yet? (And she's going to write a new Vorkosigan novel!!!
Kate Elliott has a new book out too.
Ouise - Nov 29, 2006 9:12:24 am PST #1601 of 28611
Socks are a running theme throughout the series. They are used as symbols of freedom, redemption and love.
Has anyone read Bujold's The Sharing Knife yet?
I'm sorry to say that I didn't like it that much. Not that I disliked it, exactly, it was just unsubstantial and not very original. I think that what I most missed in comparison to her other books was energy - there was a certain placidity to it, even during action.
I didn't like The Hallowed Hunt much either, which makes me nervous.