I just realized that I've been conflating David Foster Wallace and Daniel Wallace. Oopsies.
I kissed him, and I told him that I loved him. And I killed him.
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
smonster - Nov 28, 2011 8:49:37 am PST #16918 of 28286
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
erikaj - Nov 28, 2011 9:44:55 am PST #16919 of 28286
Always Anti-fascist!
I'm torn between thinking those were the best suggestions ever, and thinking those were the high standards that made him too good for this world.
DavidS - Nov 28, 2011 9:47:07 am PST #16920 of 28286
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
and thinking those were the high standards that made him too good for this world.
I was definitely thinking that too. I don't know if I'd say "too good for this world" but so sensitive and constantly self-conscious that he couldn't last long in this world.
erikaj - Nov 28, 2011 9:57:13 am PST #16921 of 28286
Always Anti-fascist!
Ok, "too good for this world," is a bit of a maudlin flourish, but you feel me, right? Part of what I learned in college is to believe that my ideas were strong enough to stand up past Jerkoff Hands(TM) It was only a partial process then, that the internet has helped me complete, and it would have seemed like a blessing to the shy, blush-prone undergraduate that I was then if my instructor had been so fiercely anti-JOH, but I learned to persevere past them, which I think has greater real-life implications.
sumi - Nov 29, 2011 5:24:47 am PST #16922 of 28286
Art Crawl!!!
Excellent Game of Thrones poster.
Strix - Nov 29, 2011 5:39:20 am PST #16923 of 28286
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I often wished to include things like "If you plagiarize any of your papers, partial or whole, I will KNOW...and I will CUT you. Caveat. Fear me."
But I didn't. So I think those are made of awesome.
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2011 10:19:26 am PST #16924 of 28286
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Polter-Cow - Nov 30, 2011 10:24:33 am PST #16925 of 28286
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
What is the temperature at which silicon burns?
Burrell - Nov 30, 2011 10:41:30 am PST #16926 of 28286
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I often wished to include things like "If you plagiarize any of your papers, partial or whole, I will KNOW...and I will CUT you. Caveat. Fear me."
I don't include the "I will CUT you" part, but I do include the rest of it. Because some of them do plagiarize.
Toddson - Nov 30, 2011 11:09:00 am PST #16927 of 28286
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
It always amazes me that people (a) don't realize how easy it is to find out if something's plagiarized and/or (b) don't see anything wrong with it.