Wait, Bo Diddley died?
Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.
River ,'Objects In Space'
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 - May 18, 2007 3:12:16 pm PDT #2665 of 28611
Because books.
§ ita § - May 18, 2007 5:25:51 pm PDT #2666 of 28611
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Somebody's picking off my personal heroes.
He was 83. I don't think he was picked off so much as went off. It's a good old age.
Jon B. - May 19, 2007 5:35:47 am PDT #2667 of 28611
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Dana - May 20, 2007 10:01:48 am PDT #2668 of 28611
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
It's time for the annual "crap, I have to get my dad a birthday present" post. Anyone have book recommendations in the sort of non-fiction, historical or political areas?
Strix - May 20, 2007 10:15:09 am PDT #2669 of 28611
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
What area of history or politics? Serious or satire?
Dana - May 20, 2007 10:16:08 am PDT #2670 of 28611
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Either. I've given him a Molly Ivins book before. He's a leftie like me, obviously.
Strix - May 20, 2007 10:55:42 am PDT #2671 of 28611
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Hmm. What about a collection of Sarah Voewll essays? Combine history and leftie politics? And she's a fun writer to read/
dcp - May 20, 2007 11:55:05 am PDT #2672 of 28611
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America is very good.
Hil R. - May 20, 2007 12:29:44 pm PDT #2673 of 28611
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I second dcp's recommendation. I only read about half of it (someone had left a copy in a dorm common room, and I started reading it, but then the next time I was in that lounge, it was gone), but it was very good.
flea - May 20, 2007 12:38:12 pm PDT #2674 of 28611
information libertarian
I am generally pimping John Hope Franklin's Autobiography: [link]
My stepfather (age 75, likes history, lefty) seems to have liked it.