Anything with phonebooths, Dana. Jim Rockford spent half of his working life in one, and now?
Now you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty flowered bonnet, I will end you.
Mal ,'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."
erikaj - May 17, 2012 4:39:53 pm PDT #18819 of 28333
Always Anti-fascist!
Jesse - May 17, 2012 4:40:13 pm PDT #18820 of 28333
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What other old standbys of mysteries are useless these days?
Most methods of travelling under a false name (hotels, airplanes at least). All kinds of things related to phones, what with cell phones.
Dana - May 17, 2012 4:42:16 pm PDT #18821 of 28333
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yeah, Paul Drake's operative's always had to find a phone booth to call in. So did Archie Goodwin.
In the Perry Mason books, they're always hopping on planes at a minute's notice.
Hil R. - May 17, 2012 5:20:30 pm PDT #18822 of 28333
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Pretty much anything where the plot hinges on two people in different places not knowing what each other are doing. They can call or text each other now.
Consuela - May 17, 2012 5:29:46 pm PDT #18823 of 28333
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
And finding information: wikipedia and google have solved a lot of problems, but complicated mystery plotting.
Dana - May 17, 2012 5:32:06 pm PDT #18824 of 28333
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
How many hotels still hang up the old-fashioned keys behind the desk?
Matt the Bruins fan - May 17, 2012 5:34:22 pm PDT #18825 of 28333
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I've stayed in one, but it's a late 19th century resort restoration. They had clawfoot tubs, and carpeting that's older than I am.
Consuela - May 17, 2012 5:35:07 pm PDT #18826 of 28333
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Some, but mostly older hotels, non-chains.
Frankenbuddha - May 17, 2012 6:20:57 pm PDT #18827 of 28333
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Emmett assures me the guy dies of orgasm
You could tell him there are worse ways to go. Many. Varied. Like most other.
We did a lot of Shakespeare in high school, which I did enjoy, but my favorite was the existentialism section we did in AP senior "English", in quotes because it included Camus and Kafka.
The stuff I hated was Hardy, Dickens and the ex-hippie teacher who tried to stuff Walden and Annie Dillard down my throat. Absolutely loathed the stuff at the time (and as far as I know still do - have had no desire to revisit).
Which is funny because I LOVED my blatantly hippie American history teacher. But, then again, he was telling us all about the various president's failings along with their successes.
Strix - May 17, 2012 9:43:30 pm PDT #18828 of 28333
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
The Missing (Heir/ess). A simple paternity test takes care of it!