Oh, yeah, baby, it's snakalicious in here.

Xander ,'Empty Places'


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."


Ginger - Jan 15, 2008 4:45:10 am PST #4705 of 28344
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I feel picked on now as our Native American Indians have always been picked on throughout history.

You're right. She is touching all the bases.

Picked on?!


amych - Jan 15, 2008 4:46:56 am PST #4706 of 28344
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Don't forget that it would make her great-great-grandmother the full-blooded Indian Feel Bad.


hippocampus - Jan 15, 2008 4:56:41 am PST #4707 of 28344
not your mom's socks.

I feel picked on now as our Native American Indians have always been picked on throughout history.

Yes, yes. Those wicked Pawnee were always getting punished for absconding with verbatim and then scalping it.


Aims - Jan 15, 2008 4:58:27 am PST #4708 of 28344
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Oatmeal. In. My. Nose.


Jon B. - Jan 15, 2008 5:38:35 am PST #4709 of 28344
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

then we start getting notes from "her husband." Might be helped in this case by the fact that she actually has a husband.

She already put him on the phone to defend her to the AP writer:

She then asked her husband to get on the phone. He told the AP that his wife simply gets "ideas" from reference books. "She doesn't lift passages," Charles Edwards said, adding that "you would have to draw your own conclusions" on how closely his wife's work resembles other sources.


Strega - Jan 15, 2008 6:07:54 am PST #4710 of 28344

The odors of the forest, the dew and damp meadow, and the curling smoke from the wigwams were left behind as Lorinda

Okay, at this point I'm starting to be a fan, because working that in must have taken more effort than writing her own prose would have. And I speak from experience.

I wonder if she threw some Duran Duran lyrics in somewhere. Now that would be daring.


Jessica - Jan 15, 2008 7:17:15 am PST #4711 of 28344
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

"you would have to draw your own conclusions" on how closely his wife's work resembles other sources.

...

Isn't that how this whole thing got started in the first place?


Aims - Jan 15, 2008 7:19:09 am PST #4712 of 28344
Shit's all sorts of different now.

you would have to draw your own conclusions

I did! And it looks like a little stick woman stealing other people's writing!!!


Dana - Jan 15, 2008 7:28:31 am PST #4713 of 28344
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Isn't that how this whole thing got started in the first place?

He forgot to mention that if you decided she was a plagiarist, that would mean you were spiteful and engaging in a witch hunt.


JZ - Jan 15, 2008 8:18:07 am PST #4714 of 28344
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I did! And it looks like a little stick woman stealing other people's writing!!!

::applauds madly::