Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.

Andrew ,'Damage'


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."


hippocampus - Jan 10, 2008 5:07:41 pm PST #4681 of 28348
not your mom's socks.

I love the Gibson quote. I almost want to add "Google everything, or create it online if it doesn't exist..." but it's Gibson, so I leave it perfect as is.

about the CE, I think not even bothering to freakin' PARAPHRASE? That's what really gets me. Just paraphrase a LITTLE bit, and no one would ever have noticed. YEEESH.


Polter-Cow - Jan 10, 2008 5:12:31 pm PST #4682 of 28348
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Well played, Sox.


meara - Jan 10, 2008 5:24:50 pm PST #4683 of 28348

Hah! It even took me a second...


Polter-Cow - Jan 10, 2008 5:46:52 pm PST #4684 of 28348
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

It took me a couple too, meara.


sumi - Jan 11, 2008 6:40:46 am PST #4685 of 28348
Art Crawl!!!

New Philip Pullman story to be published by Random House this spring.


hippocampus - Jan 11, 2008 6:44:35 am PST #4686 of 28348
not your mom's socks.

It took me a couple too, meara.

thanks guys -


beth b - Jan 12, 2008 9:44:23 am PST #4687 of 28348
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

I'm glad to see that the CE story is getting national coverage in the mainstream press. I like to tink that it shows that it is being taken seriously.

I've been doing a little book reviewing in my blog - for BART reads mostly . ( that's my term for fun reads) . I just did one for anges and the hitman which is a much better book than the first team effort by Crusie and Mayer.

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Susan W. - Jan 12, 2008 9:48:34 am PST #4688 of 28348
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

I really enjoyed Agnes and the Hitman, too, and I didn't finish the first Crusie/Mayer collaboration.

I just finished Gentlemen of the Road, which was the first Michael Chabon I've ever read. I thought it was a lot of fun as a playful take on old-school adventure stories--not the kind of book I'd want to read week in and week out, but great as something different.


Amy - Jan 12, 2008 9:55:16 am PST #4689 of 28348
Because books.

I didn't finish Don't Look Down, either. Didn't get past the first chapter, actually.

My Libba Bray came today! It's gorgeous and promisingly thick! Very excited.


Steph L. - Jan 12, 2008 10:54:29 am PST #4690 of 28348
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

My Libba Bray came today! It's gorgeous and promisingly thick! Very excited.

I'm more than halfway through, and I'm really loving it. I don't want it to end...but I want to know how it turn out.