I know.
Of course you do! I just had to look it up.
You should totally have some. In fact, I think Christmas will be ruined if you don't.
Do you have any salt cod?
I like books. I just don't want to take on too much. Do they have an introduction to the modern blurb?
Buffy ,'Lessons'
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."
DavidS - Dec 20, 2011 8:58:41 am PST #17068 of 28288
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jesse - Dec 20, 2011 9:21:33 am PST #17069 of 28288
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Not currently, but I could certainly get some. Although, even more off-topically, my family will be having our own traditional pork pie for Christmas Eve.
DavidS - Dec 20, 2011 9:26:00 am PST #17070 of 28288
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
my family will be having our own traditional pork pie for Christmas Eve.
You know, pork pie sounds pretty good in theory. What's not to like about pig-related food stuffs and pie? Except pork pie is served cold, in a kind of gelatin. Surrounded by crust.
Yours is probably good though. More like an empanada, which is a little pie that can contain pork.
Jesse - Dec 20, 2011 9:35:03 am PST #17071 of 28288
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Not the kind we make! No gelatin. Served warm. With crust. Mmm....tourtiere.
DavidS - Dec 20, 2011 9:50:27 am PST #17072 of 28288
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Kathy, Kate, Sumi, Liese, Connie, Bev! And all other LoTR fans, its worth mentioning that Mark Reads is now reading Lord of the Rings.
And he's unspoiled and hasn't seen the movies. But he has read The Hobbit.
Connie Neil - Dec 20, 2011 9:58:03 am PST #17073 of 28288
brillig
Yay, for LotR virgins! Maybe he'll be as gobsmacked by the Eowyn reveal as I was as a kid, so I won't feel so dumb, because apparently everyone else got it.
sumi - Dec 20, 2011 10:11:30 am PST #17074 of 28288
Art Crawl!!!
Woo hoo!
Connie Neil - Dec 20, 2011 10:17:09 am PST #17075 of 28288
brillig
How glorious that he loves Bilbo as much as I do. Yes, yes, yes, Bilbo has such joy in being eccentric. I can't wait for Mark to get to Rivendell. And, of course, Bree, and that mysterious stranger in the corner.
Damn, it's just like reading it again the first time.
edit: Honestly, though, he's a nerd and he doesn't know this stuff? Amazing.
erikaj - Dec 20, 2011 10:29:01 am PST #17076 of 28288
Always Anti-fascist!
Maybe not the right kind of geek. I mean, I hang out online with people who still debate the Luther Mahoney shooting on Homicide fifteen years out,(admittedly geekish) but I bet that wouldn't mean anything to more than a handful of y'all.
Consuela - Dec 20, 2011 10:32:28 am PST #17077 of 28288
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Honestly, though, he's a nerd and he doesn't know this stuff? Amazing.
Ehhh, I think he cheats a bit. It's more fun to pretend that he is completely ignorant, but I don't actually buy that he knows nothing.