and the second reference is Mr. Smith and Mrs. Smith, unless Jane Smith requests to be Ms. Smith.
Seriously? That's just seems wrong.
Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
megan walker - Sep 06, 2011 8:41:10 am PDT #16255 of 28333
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Ginger - Sep 06, 2011 9:21:22 am PDT #16256 of 28333
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The Times may have moved as far as Ms. Smith unless she requests to be Mrs.
Consuela - Sep 07, 2011 6:25:02 am PDT #16257 of 28333
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So Orson Scott Card rewrote Hamlet so that Hamlet's father was a gay pedophile and abused Hamlet, Laertes, Horatio, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern, and that's why everyone is fucked up.
And then Scott Lynch (author of The Gentlemen Bastards) mocked him by similarly rewriting Henry V. Sort of: [link]
hippocampus - Sep 07, 2011 7:59:03 am PDT #16258 of 28333
not your mom's socks.
hah.
There is also some talk about rewriting Ender's Game ...
erikaj - Sep 07, 2011 9:04:59 am PDT #16259 of 28333
Always Anti-fascist!
When I was a teen, I would have included Heathcliff/Catherine but now I think that's fucked up.
Steph L. - Sep 07, 2011 9:31:28 am PDT #16260 of 28333
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I posit that Heathcliff and Catherine deserved each other. That way the fucked-upped-ness is self-contained and doesn't have to spill out onto other unfortunate people.
erikaj - Sep 07, 2011 9:36:32 am PDT #16261 of 28333
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, there's that.
DavidS - Sep 07, 2011 12:18:47 pm PDT #16262 of 28333
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
AV Club has an interesting piece about the death of Borders. The most interesting part, though, is the conversation in comments which had nothing to do with megachains vs. indie stores or Amazon, but the value of having Borders or B&N come into your suburban or mostly rural existence.
Being a teen and having a place to hang out and read and discover all the science fiction or graphic novels or serious lit. That Borders and B&N had a big cultural effect in the heartland, where people had only been able to scrape by with B.Dalton and Waldenbooks and Crown type chains before.
javachik - Sep 07, 2011 12:23:11 pm PDT #16263 of 28333
Our wings are not tired.
David, that is precisely why though I love independent bookstores, I was never upset when a Borders or B&N opened up shop in less urban area. Sometimes that's the only place available to "hang". And I include libraries, because most libraries around here have extremely limited hours and they don't allow food/drink (for good reason). Plus you're not supposed to talk!
Toddson - Sep 07, 2011 12:26:33 pm PDT #16264 of 28333
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
There was an article recently that the B&N in Georgetown is closing and about the loss of a "third place" - a place to gather that's not home or work - that also doesn't require you buy things (i.e., most people do buy a coffee or something when they go to the cafe, but it's not mandatory).