I got stupid. The money was too good.

Jayne ,'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."


Atropa - May 16, 2012 10:08:32 am PDT #18748 of 28326
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Pasta salad with striped bowtie pasta? [link]

One of my friends made me a birthday dinner with that pasta (before the dreaded gluten-free thing came up). Yummy AND appropriate for my color scheme!


Burrell - May 16, 2012 10:13:47 am PDT #18749 of 28326
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Can one fall in love with a pasta? I think I am in love with that pasta. Or at least a serious crush.


Atropa - May 16, 2012 10:18:34 am PDT #18750 of 28326
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Can one fall in love with a pasta? I think I am in love with that pasta.

Yes. Because I fell in love with that pasta. It's one of the reasons I'm hoping I can eventually eat gluten again.

Photo of birthday dinner: [link]


Burrell - May 16, 2012 10:33:58 am PDT #18751 of 28326
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Photo of birthday dinner:

That made me do Wallace flaily hands!


DavidS - May 16, 2012 10:39:20 am PDT #18752 of 28326
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Dangit, Jilli, now I have to make pasta for lunch!

(Mushrooms sauteed in butter, olive oil, garlic and Vermouth, adding and heating up a little leftover roasted chicken, tossed with rigatoni and baby spinach with hot pepper flakes. Little Parmesan.)


Atropa - May 16, 2012 10:43:49 am PDT #18753 of 28326
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Whoo, I should not have typed "The Night Circus" into eBay on a whim. No way I can afford it, but a tempting, tempting auction: [link]


megan walker - May 16, 2012 10:48:49 am PDT #18754 of 28326
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Any suggestions for a 12-year-old girl who has liked The Hunger Games, The Mysterious Benedict Society, Incarceron, and Miss Peregrine's Home among others? She especially likes things with puzzles and/or math. Her parents are conservative but fairly tolerant about what she reads, but I wouldn't want to recommend anything on the sexy end of things.


Polter-Cow - May 16, 2012 10:56:44 am PDT #18755 of 28326
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

The Secret Series, by Pseudonymous Bosch! I heart those books so much. Lots of codes and puzzles and such.


Tom Scola - May 16, 2012 11:02:19 am PDT #18756 of 28326
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

The Westing Game?


megan walker - May 16, 2012 11:11:05 am PDT #18757 of 28326
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Huh. I didn't realize what The Westing Game was about. Now I want to read it.

The Secret Series sounds good, but maybe a bit young? (I mean, I would read it, but she may be at that age where there is a cool factor involved.)