Also, I can kill you with my brain.

River ,'Trash'


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 - Mar 23, 2006 1:52:40 pm PST #230 of 28061
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Hey, Jilli, did you ever read the one I gave you?

No, it's still sitting on the "to be read" stack. I occasionally look at the cover and giggle, is that enough?


DavidS - Mar 23, 2006 1:58:30 pm PST #231 of 28061
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

But one whiff of this Foxwoman’s delicious honeysuckle fragrance and he knows that she is more than a colleague or a conquest…she is his mate.

Is this by the psychic oceleot romance writer?


meara - Mar 23, 2006 4:09:57 pm PST #232 of 28061

Maybe not a white guy, but I bet you've seen a picture of a rapper, say, with them.

Generally not in a single one, though.

I do accept that I wouldn't actually point and laugh. Well, I might point and laugh at ND, but probably not because of his hair. Nonetheless, it's a pretty unusual style for a guy (a single braid? Totally normal for a guy with long hair. French braid? Pretty darn unusual. Trying to say the french braid makes it look like short hair? Um)


DavidS - Mar 23, 2006 4:20:45 pm PST #233 of 28061
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

French braid? Pretty darn unusual.

Said the drag king.


DavidS - Mar 23, 2006 10:21:01 pm PST #234 of 28061
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Something literary from the NYTimes review of a new book, Flapper.

If "Flapper" does ascribe the birth of the jazz age to the nubile young Zelda Sayre, Fitzgerald's future bride — whose taste for mischief once led her to pin mistletoe to her derrière — it soon moves on to other examples. Consider the quaint courtroom case of Eugenia Kelly, a 19-year-old heiress whose mother, Helen Kelly, feared that Eugenia had become the victim of a "tango pirate" and was "likely to become depraved." For Miss Kelly an inheritance was at stake, and it trumped the tango pirate's charms. But for other, less privileged American changelings, there was every reason to abandon old ideas of decorum and sample the jazziest of the new.

It is a sad comment on our society that so few aspire to be tango pirates anymore.


Volans - Mar 24, 2006 3:46:21 am PST #235 of 28061
move out and draw fire

her new musical, Jesus Christ Mary Sue.

BWAH!

My step-mother just sent me a couple books by some friends of hers. They are Tony Hillerman/Angel crossovers. Seriously. A Navajo cop (although NM State Police, not Tribal Police) gets turned into a vampire, but he's still good and fights (supernatural) crime.

I read the first one in one biking session. The plot isn't all that bad, but my word. The writing is atrocious. And I'm as close to the perfect target audience as you can get!


brenda m - Mar 24, 2006 3:48:17 am PST #236 of 28061
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Oh, I think I read one of those!


erikaj - Mar 24, 2006 5:20:27 am PST #237 of 28061
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)

OMG... Of course Sherman Alexie's "Indian Killer" guarantees I see Hillerman as an insecure, wanna-be bedwetter because that's what his Hillerman-type is like...it really has influenced my view of him. What's a tango pirate?


Beverly - Mar 24, 2006 6:25:06 am PST #238 of 28061
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

What's a tango pirate?

Like a stevedore. Only with a rose in his teeth.


erikaj - Mar 24, 2006 6:53:51 am PST #239 of 28061
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)

it would be hard to resist that.