Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.

Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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."


Aims - Feb 01, 2007 10:59:52 am PST #1915 of 28743
Shit's all sorts of different now.

APA and MLA can BITE ME

Amen to that shite. APA is the format I have to use on EVERYTHING for the next three years.


Hil R. - Feb 01, 2007 5:01:52 pm PST #1916 of 28743
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Is there any style guide that uses both italics and underlining, for two different things? I can't recall ever learning any.


sumi - Feb 01, 2007 6:17:20 pm PST #1917 of 28743
Art Crawl!!!

If you can't do italics - you underline. That's what I learned from back in the day of typewriters.


Nutty - Feb 01, 2007 6:21:01 pm PST #1918 of 28743
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Right. MLA is just wicked old-fashioned. (Although possibly not any more, as they are revising for a 2008 publication date.)


Anne W. - Feb 02, 2007 2:09:19 am PST #1919 of 28743
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Re. Harry Potter, I'm not sure what I'm looking forward to more: finding out how it ends or watching fandom reactions to how things end.


Kathy A - Feb 02, 2007 6:48:35 am PST #1920 of 28743
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

That's right! It'll be interesting to see some fans' heads explode. Like the Harry-Hermione 'shippers who retreated to their own personal bubble after HBP and refused to acknowledge what JKR wrote.


Atropa - Feb 02, 2007 11:24:52 am PST #1921 of 28743
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Re. Harry Potter, I'm not sure what I'm looking forward to more: finding out how it ends or watching fandom reactions to how things end.

I know! Because no matter what happens in the final book, there will be some portion of fandom that flips right out.


Aims - Feb 02, 2007 11:26:12 am PST #1922 of 28743
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I'ma flip right out cause it's over.

I might end up pulling what I pulled when Return of the King came out. I refused for weeks to go see it cause I didn't want it to be over cause I loved it so much.


Kathy A - Feb 02, 2007 11:39:05 am PST #1923 of 28743
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I hope JKR eventually does write the Encyclopedia of Harry Potter and His World book that she mentioned in an interview after HBP was released. It would be a good way for her to finally print the extensive backstory she created for so many of the secondary (and tertiary!) characters.


Aims - Feb 02, 2007 11:50:32 am PST #1924 of 28743
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I would love to see that.

Although, I am such a dork that save the backstories, I could write one. Joe won't watch the movies with me anymore cause I kept yelling, "WRONG!" at the screen.