I have to admit that the most exciting thing about my day was signing up for HP7 at my new local bookstore.
We have to see the chimp playing hockey! That's hilarious! The ice is so slippery, and, and monkeys are all irrational. We have to see this!
Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
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."
megan walker - Jun 04, 2007 4:35:59 pm PDT #2729 of 28558
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Amy - Jun 04, 2007 4:38:42 pm PDT #2730 of 28558
Because books.
Thanks, sumi. I'm bad with facts, so I'm going to let someone with a better memory than mine answer your questions.
Yay, megan!
Aims - Jun 05, 2007 5:07:16 am PDT #2731 of 28558
Shit's all sorts of different now.
sumi, that seems about right.
shrift - Jun 05, 2007 6:02:32 am PDT #2732 of 28558
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I don't know how many Chicagoistas spend their time downtown, but I have found my new favorite used book store: After Words on Illinois. New & used books upstairs, a giant basement of used books downstairs, and a store cat.
sumi - Jun 05, 2007 8:05:19 am PDT #2733 of 28558
Art Crawl!!!
I guess today is the day that Cormac McCarthy appears on Oprah.
Hayden - Jun 05, 2007 8:11:09 am PDT #2734 of 28558
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Do you think he'll kill her?
Gris - Jun 05, 2007 9:04:34 am PDT #2735 of 28558
Hey. New board.
I think LibraryThing combined with Delicious Library on my Macbook is going to be a beautiful thing. I may have my weekend planned (up to the Tony Awards, that is)
ETA: Oh yeah, I came in here to say that this thread inspired me to start reading a lot of Lois McMaster Bujold. I finished the Young Miles compendium ( The Warrior's Apprentice, The Vor Game, and "The Mountains of Mourning") in about a day and a half. They were very good. I'm about 50 pages into the first novel in the i Miles, Mystery, and Mayhem compendium ( Cetaganda is the original title) now.
I had forgotten how much I love a well-written space opera. I can really fall into these characters, and I'm even starting to figure out the politics of the universe.
Dana - Jun 05, 2007 9:05:43 am PDT #2736 of 28558
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Gris, have you seen that Salon is doing a week of articles leading up to the Tonys? It's nice for me, since I'm not able to see the nominated musicals.
Steph L. - Jun 05, 2007 9:45:51 am PDT #2737 of 28558
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I'm in the middle of The Vor Game right now. The one shortcoming is not enough Cordelia.
erikaj - Jun 05, 2007 9:51:02 am PDT #2738 of 28558
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Don't know, Corwood, dude...you're in Texas now. Does she need killin'?