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.
I had a whole section about civic pride.
Mayor ,'Chosen'
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."
Hil R. - May 17, 2012 5:20:30 pm PDT #18822 of 28370
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Consuela - May 17, 2012 5:29:46 pm PDT #18823 of 28370
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 28370
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 28370
"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 28370
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 28370
"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 28370
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!
JZ - May 18, 2012 12:03:22 am PDT #18829 of 28370
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Frank, based on the incredibly numerous past occasions on which your tastes have intersected with both Hec's and mine, I think you might cautiously attempt to revisit Annie Dillard, as we both love the hell out of her (though I never attempted her in high school and have no idea what I'd have made of her if I had).
erikaj - May 18, 2012 5:08:41 am PDT #18830 of 28370
Always Anti-fascist!
I want to like her. And if I read a little in a magazine, I do. But all that nature kind of makes me impatient.
sj - May 18, 2012 5:15:16 am PDT #18831 of 28370
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."