Besides, there's nothing wrong with this line:
I did like the clam line. It was Lorrie Moore-esque.
What? I'm not allowed to hit people? Wesley: Not people capable of genocide. Angel: Those are exactly the types of people I should be allowed to hit!
'Just Rewards (2)'
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."
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2007 9:50:02 am PDT #2786 of 28176
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Steph L. - Jun 07, 2007 9:53:11 am PDT #2787 of 28176
I look more rad than Lutheranism
What are you implying, madame? That I have a steam powered Mark IV Purple Enprosenator running 24-7 in my basement at all times?
(Pssst, everybody! It's actually in his bathroom.)
Besides, there's nothing wrong with this line:
"Twice a day behind their house the tide boarded the sand. Four times a year the seasons flopped over. Clams live like this, but without so much reading."
Man, I really dislike "the seasons flopped over." Flopped?
P.M. Marc - Jun 07, 2007 10:01:42 am PDT #2788 of 28176
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Yeah, I'm going to have to say I find little purpose in her purple. It feels less stained glass, more Bedazzler.
Amy - Jun 07, 2007 10:10:20 am PDT #2789 of 28176
Because books.
It feels less stained glass, more Bedazzler.
Heh. Dead on.
Amy - Jun 07, 2007 10:11:05 am PDT #2790 of 28176
Because books.
Also, that would be an awesome writing workshop: Is There Purpose to Your Purple?
DavidS - Jun 07, 2007 10:12:08 am PDT #2791 of 28176
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It feels less stained glass, more Bedazzler.
Oh, snap!
Jon B. - Jun 07, 2007 10:14:54 am PDT #2792 of 28176
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Besides, there's nothing wrong with this line:
I was going to leave out the third selection in my quoted text, but "seasons flopped over" convinced me otherwise.
Atropa - Jun 07, 2007 10:15:15 am PDT #2793 of 28176
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Yeah, I'm going to have to say I find little purpose in her purple. It feels less stained glass, more Bedazzler.
Ha! But very true. And it's not like I'm disdainful toward lurid and overblown writing or anything.
Toddson - Jun 07, 2007 10:18:44 am PDT #2794 of 28176
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
ooh, Jilli, there was a review in Sunday's paper of a biography of Dr. Polidi - don't know if you'd be interested.
oops - Dr. Polidori (some days I can spell, really!)
erikaj - Jun 07, 2007 1:14:36 pm PDT #2795 of 28176
Always Anti-fascist!
I didn't know she wrote anything but books about writing.