If they mean hours of rain, rather than inches of rain, that would be Olympia.
It's called "Forks" or some such craziness but I think it is not real.
No. And yes. It's always sudden.
Tara ,'Storyteller'
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."
Gris - Jan 23, 2008 2:02:41 pm PST #4806 of 28343
Hey. New board.
Atropa - Jan 23, 2008 2:16:58 pm PST #4807 of 28343
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
It's called "Forks" or some such craziness but I think it is not real.
Oh, Forks is real.
Susan W. - Jan 23, 2008 2:17:44 pm PST #4808 of 28343
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Forks is real. We drove through it Labor Day weekend on one of the rare sunny days.
ETA, Forks: [link]
P.M. Marc - Jan 23, 2008 2:26:35 pm PST #4809 of 28343
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
La Push, apparently also a location in the books? Also real.
(One of my leftover textbooks from high school has a random sketch of WA state with a little dot for La Push, because a friend was headed there for the weekend, and I was asking him where the hell it was. The answer is "Kinda near Forks, let me draw it.")
Gris - Jan 23, 2008 5:08:35 pm PST #4810 of 28343
Hey. New board.
Nice. Looks pretty. I bet their website has gotten a lot more visitors since the books became popular.
Volans - Jan 23, 2008 5:16:30 pm PST #4811 of 28343
move out and draw fire
There was a caller on NPR today that the announcer said was from "Snow-Amish" Washington. I'm guessing Snohomish.
Am reading a "post-cyberpunk" anthology. Am wondering how Bruce Sterling ever became a writer. Clunk-ee.
Jessica - Jan 24, 2008 3:35:30 am PST #4812 of 28343
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Am wondering how Bruce Sterling ever became a writer. Clunk-ee.
Heh - I have the same thought every time I come across him.
hippocampus - Jan 24, 2008 3:56:28 am PST #4813 of 28343
not your mom's socks.
second that. er. third.
Aims - Jan 24, 2008 4:12:04 am PST #4814 of 28343
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I am, at the best of times, a pretty smart chick, but a little slow on the uptake on things that are seemingly *really* obvious. For some reason (I suspect lots of pot use in the 90's), my brain sometimes just doesn't GET IT when presented with a situation. That being said, I have a really stupid question about The Princess Bride, its author, and William Goldman. I just read it. The 25th anniversary hardcover. I chose it for one of my texts for my Lit class this term.
Am I understanding correctly that all of the abridgement is written by William Goldman as a commentary on the story that he wrote but put the name S. Morgenstern on? And that all of the crap about being a legal fight to write the abridgement for Buttercup's Baby is just that - crap? There is no S. Morgenstern Family Estate that wants Stephen King to abridge it? And Goldman is trying to ... I don't know ... buy more time to write the whole thing?
I are so confused. I feel like I'm the outsider on a really funny joke that ruining it for everyone else cause I are clueless.
Miracleman - Jan 24, 2008 4:13:41 am PST #4815 of 28343
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
As far as I know the entire book was written by William Goldman and S. Morgenstern is fictional.
I would be greatly surprised to find out differently.