I get so tired of sitting someplace - often the bus or the subway - and someone's talking and the ONLY adverb or adjective they seem to know is the one Ms. Le Guin cited. sigh.
I like the ruffles.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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."
Toddson - Aug 18, 2011 10:10:47 am PDT #16095 of 28289
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
smonster - Aug 18, 2011 10:21:10 am PDT #16096 of 28289
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
She got a standing O from the class. It was...fucking awesome.
I wish I'd heard that.
megan walker - Aug 18, 2011 10:33:49 am PDT #16097 of 28289
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
sometimes you just need to shouting "Fucking FUCK!" at the top of your lungs.
I did that just this morning when I couldn't get Outlook to open so I could connect to a conf call with the president of my company on the line.
Luckily, I'm the only one in the office today.
Jesse - Aug 18, 2011 10:39:09 am PDT #16098 of 28289
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I didn't realize that my coworker can hear me when I talk to myself until recently. Oops. Most recently, she asked what I was saying "fuck it!" about.
zuisa - Aug 18, 2011 11:52:18 am PDT #16099 of 28289
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Although I DID have a female student who went on a 5 minutes, profanity-filled diatribe full of insightful character analysis about a character in "The Poisonwood Bible" which, curse words or no, was one of the most thoughtful pieces of student analysis I'd ever heard, and I said nary a word to her.
I really wish I had heard that too. Which character was she raging on?
sumi - Aug 18, 2011 12:17:12 pm PDT #16100 of 28289
Art Crawl!!!
The Winds of War chapter that GRRM read at Worldcon belongs to Arianne Martell.
smonster - Aug 18, 2011 1:21:00 pm PDT #16101 of 28289
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Whoops, wrong thread! Sorry, moving to Bitches.
beth b - Aug 18, 2011 7:43:49 pm PDT #16102 of 28289
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I get so tired of sitting someplace - often the bus or the subway - and someone's talking and the ONLY adverb or adjective they seem to know is the one Ms. Le Guin cited. sigh.
We were on the BART - and there was a young man on the phone and almost every other word out of his mouth was some version of the word fuck. At first he was annoying, but then it got really funny - because I realized he sounded like the obscene version of a smurf - it was really hard not to laugh out loud.
javachik - Aug 18, 2011 7:46:01 pm PDT #16103 of 28289
Our wings are not tired.
Smonster, so FUCKING HAPPY for you.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Volans - Aug 19, 2011 3:46:30 pm PDT #16104 of 28289
move out and draw fire
OK, I skipped a TON, because I wanted to read the NPR list first, and then read over Buffista commentary slowly while not distracted. But then I skipped to the horror part, and then I just got all flappy-hands about everything.
I love books.
Whitley Streiber? (Did anybody read The Hunger? He also wrote The Howling, so he's got as much claim to being King of 70s Horror as anybody, unless you concede the whole decade to Anne Rice for Interview With a Vampire.)
So, I met him. At the 50th anniversary of the Roswell UFO crash. He's apparently a Celebrity in UFO circles, since Communion was ostensibly non-fiction. Anyway, he'd made appearances and was signing copies and stuff all day, I guess, and I ended up sitting next to him at the VIP bash that evening. I introduced myself, he introduced himself, and I enthused, rather loudly, "Oh, I LOOOOVED Wolfen ! And The Hunger! "
He picked up his plate and moved away.