Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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."
But do not EVEN fucking tell me the "political moment for feminine role models" is a thing of the past when I can still count all the female politicians with national prominence ON ONE GODDAMNED HAND.
somethings need to be repeated
But do not EVEN fucking tell me the "political moment for feminine role models" is a thing of the past when I can still count all the female politicians with national prominence ON ONE GODDAMNED HAND.
again and again
Awww. There is one winner in this Cassie Edwards brouhaha: the ferrets/Defenders of Wildlife.
That's awesome! I'm still floored that her dialogue made it past editors without anyone ever saying, "this sounds like you copied it out of a reference book."
Smart Bitches is being so good to us lately:
The Collected Work of Jane Austen, Ultra-Condensed by Christina Carlson and Peter da Silva
Female Lead: I secretly love Male Lead. He must never know.
Male Lead: I secretly love Female Lead. She must never know.
(They find out.)
THE END
More here: [link]
Ah, Book-A-Minute Classics. I remember those.
snork!
Gregor Samsa:
Holy crap, I'm a vermin thingie!
(He DIES...eventually.)
THE END
Cassie Edwards and the ferrets made Wait Wait Don't Tell Me today! The guesser got it wrong.
I love it when Wait Wait picks up on something I first heard about here at b.org
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex:
"You'll marry your mother..."
"No I won't!"
"well, ya did."
(not mine - saw it in Cassie Edwards' to-use list)
Huh. Cell phone novels are huge in Japan
Whatever their literary talents, cellphone novelists are racking up the kind of sales that most more experienced, traditional novelists can only dream of.
One such star, a 21-year-old woman named Rin, wrote “If You” over a six-month stretch during her senior year in high school. While commuting to her part-time job or whenever she found a free moment, she tapped out passages on her cellphone and uploaded them on a popular Web site for would-be authors.
After cellphone readers voted her novel No. 1 in one ranking, her story of the tragic love between two childhood friends was turned into a 142-page hardcover book last year. It sold 400,000 copies and became the No. 5 best-selling novel of 2007, according to a closely watched list by Tohan, a major book distributor.