Don't forget that it would make her great-great-grandmother the full-blooded Indian Feel Bad.
We're proud to say that the Class of '99 has the lowest mortality rate of any graduating class in Sunnydale history.
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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."
amych - Jan 15, 2008 4:46:56 am PST #4706 of 28343
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
hippocampus - Jan 15, 2008 4:56:41 am PST #4707 of 28343
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 28343
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Oatmeal. In. My. Nose.
Jon B. - Jan 15, 2008 5:38:35 am PST #4709 of 28343
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 28343
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 28343
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 28343
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 28343
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 28343
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::
JZ - Jan 15, 2008 8:24:02 am PST #4715 of 28343
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I'm slowly, reluctantly coming to be in total awe of Cassie Edwards. Putting her husband on the phone was a nice touch to start with, but she's just gone supernova from there. Stealing from Longfellow and the Encyclopedia Britannica; comparing her enduring increasingly well-substantiated accusations of plagiarism to the suffering of her Native American ancestors; describing said suffering and the entire blood-drenched, shameful, appalling history of white American treatment of Native Americans as "picking on" them; and creating her own wacky genius mashup of Snacky and Godwin. She may be a crap artist, but she's a truly stunning work of art.