Buffy? I like that. That girl's so hot, she's buffy.

Forrest ,'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."


Amy - Feb 04, 2019 6:15:05 am PST #25279 of 28197
Because books.

I just read that. Fucked. Up. Also, how do people continue to get away with this in the age of the Internet? Baffling.


amyth - Feb 04, 2019 7:41:12 am PST #25280 of 28197
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen

The last paragraph!!!


Amy - Feb 04, 2019 7:48:07 am PST #25281 of 28197
Because books.

Right?!


-t - Feb 04, 2019 8:18:18 am PST #25282 of 28197
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Jeepers


Laura - Feb 04, 2019 8:45:21 am PST #25283 of 28197
Our wings are not tired.

Skimmed the article, because long. Sniff, I enjoyed The Woman in the Window quite a lot! That is distressing. Sitting here shaking my head at the extent of wrongness there.


Calli - Feb 04, 2019 9:38:47 am PST #25284 of 28197
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

That's . . . a lot. Wow.


Consuela - Feb 04, 2019 10:32:37 am PST #25285 of 28197
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I can't figure out how any employer would allow him to just not be there for months without any documentation.


Tom Scola - Feb 04, 2019 1:38:03 pm PST #25286 of 28197
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Here's a TL;DR summary of the article: [link]


-t - Feb 04, 2019 3:31:04 pm PST #25287 of 28197
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

There is so much brio in his sheer commitment to his many apparent lies that it's hard to avoid feeling delighted.

Nah. Not hard at all.


amych - Feb 04, 2019 5:14:39 pm PST #25288 of 28197
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Of all the details (SO MANY DETAILS) in that whole fuckety-upety thing, the completely made up second doctorate before age 30 in Munchhausen studies was the most.