No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.

Early ,'Objects In Space'


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."


Polter-Cow - Sep 23, 2011 12:40:43 pm PDT #16450 of 28635
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Yeah, I got to the end of the second book and was like YOU GUYS HAD TO WAIT A YEAR AFTER THIS??


Amy - Sep 25, 2011 5:32:59 pm PDT #16451 of 28635
Because books.

A sequel to The Shining! I had no idea.


Polter-Cow - Sep 25, 2011 6:19:32 pm PDT #16452 of 28635
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

HOLY SHIT WHAT.

Although I don't know about that. The Shining was all about the Overlook.


Steph L. - Sep 25, 2011 6:35:10 pm PDT #16453 of 28635
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror has forever made me hear that in my head as "The Shinning," in Groundskeeper Willie's voice.


Liese S. - Sep 25, 2011 8:41:26 pm PDT #16454 of 28635
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

The 2nd and 3rd should be read together, IMO.

Good to know!


Toddson - Sep 26, 2011 4:47:25 am PDT #16455 of 28635
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I got a collection of short stories - urban fantasy - and the first story is a Harry Dresden where he investigates the cause and continuation of The Billy Goat Curse.


sumi - Sep 26, 2011 5:52:44 am PDT #16456 of 28635
Art Crawl!!!

Cool.


sumi - Sep 26, 2011 11:44:10 am PDT #16457 of 28635
Art Crawl!!!

The hour of the creation of Frankenstein has been identified by astronomers.


le nubian - Sep 26, 2011 1:09:49 pm PDT #16458 of 28635
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

the comments for that piece have me laughing out loud.


DavidS - Sep 27, 2011 7:21:18 am PDT #16459 of 28635
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I'm curious about this. The collected juvenilia of the Brontes.