Boy, are you going to be disappointed when you realize that my newsletter mostly consists of incredibly long lists detailing my nicknames for my cat.
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."
Hayden - May 10, 2008 6:32:21 pm PDT #5761 of 28352
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Steph L. - May 13, 2008 5:59:38 am PDT #5762 of 28352
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Huh. It's like the Gossip Girl books, but about Christian teens.
Part of me wants to read it, to see what it's like.
Hil R. - May 13, 2008 6:33:25 am PDT #5763 of 28352
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Huh. The threatening to "out" someone as a Christian seems odd. I mean, when I was in high school and college, it was not being Christian that was weird.
brenda m - May 13, 2008 6:37:25 am PDT #5764 of 28352
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I suppose it depends on your definitions - being nominally Christian is certainly the norm, but I suspect that being highly observant or a member of one of the more fundamentalist sects would be less so at most colleges.
Hil R. - May 13, 2008 6:42:58 am PDT #5765 of 28352
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I suppose so. At my high school, though, the CYO retreats were huge big deal social events, and in college, I got plenty of "Add your name at the bottom of the list and send this on to everyone you know if you love Jesus!" chain emails.
brenda m - May 13, 2008 6:56:06 am PDT #5766 of 28352
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Interesting. I don't really recall seeing any of that.
Hil R. - May 13, 2008 6:57:39 am PDT #5767 of 28352
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
At my high school, there was a Jewish girl who went to all the CYO events so that she wouldn't miss anything with her friends. (She was kind of on the edge of the popular crowd, which was almost entirely Catholic.)
brenda m - May 13, 2008 7:08:05 am PDT #5768 of 28352
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Well, I did grow up in liberal elitist enclaves, urban public schools, and university in (gasp) Canada, so it's possible my experience isn't representative. I guess.
Hil R. - May 13, 2008 7:13:33 am PDT #5769 of 28352
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I grew up in suburban NJ, which tends to be pretty split politically, and then college in New Orleans. In high school, religion was a pretty big defining factor -- just one of those things that you knew about everybody, like you knew what their parents did, or what extracurriculars they did, or stuff like that. One of the things that let us put other kids into categories pretty easily.
meara - May 13, 2008 7:20:12 am PDT #5770 of 28352
Eh, I suppose being uberChristian and fundie or something would've been looked down a bit on as geeky or "square", but usually those kids would look right back at people as being evil, so...
Regular "goes to church with the family on Sunday" Christians were not in any way considered odd though. Even "participates with the youth group and goes on occasional social outings with them or camp or something" wasn't weird.