Octavia Butler is today's Google doodle.
I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—
William ,'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."
Calli - Jun 22, 2018 4:20:46 am PDT #25084 of 28753
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Kat - Jun 22, 2018 7:36:26 pm PDT #25085 of 28753
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Noah asked me who Butler was, but I didn't know the context.
Fred Pete - Jun 28, 2018 11:06:37 am PDT #25086 of 28753
Ann, that's a ferret.
RIP Harlan Ellison.
-t - Jun 28, 2018 11:25:51 am PDT #25087 of 28753
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh? Sad.
Atropa - Jun 28, 2018 1:33:10 pm PDT #25088 of 28753
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Goodbye, grumpy uncle of SF.
Tom Scola - Jun 28, 2018 1:46:50 pm PDT #25089 of 28753
Where do you come from? Where do you go? What is your scene, baby? We just gotta know.
He's going to sue his way into heaven.
-t - Jun 28, 2018 2:22:40 pm PDT #25090 of 28753
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That is kind of a pleasant thought.
Jessica - Jun 29, 2018 10:39:49 am PDT #25091 of 28753
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think you guys would enjoy my friend's Twitter poll.
Beverly - Jun 29, 2018 10:49:08 am PDT #25092 of 28753
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Which is why, although I know better, I still say "muncipal" in my head when I read municipal. You know, muncipal, like principal.
-t - Jun 29, 2018 11:14:12 am PDT #25093 of 28753
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ha! I have not read Jane Eyre, though. Mostly I think - how is that a first name?