a snooty, exclusive private school in San Francisco
Oh, San Francisco. Well of course it's not cool to love Jesus in that hotbed of sin!
I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
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."
Jessica - May 13, 2008 9:39:33 am PDT #5785 of 28355
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
DavidS - May 13, 2008 9:41:19 am PDT #5786 of 28355
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Well of course it's not cool to love Jesus in that hotbed of sin!
It's true. I oppress JZ all the time about this.
Scrappy - May 13, 2008 12:11:16 pm PDT #5787 of 28355
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I oppress JZ all the time
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
Susan W. - May 13, 2008 3:21:28 pm PDT #5788 of 28355
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I think amych and Teppy are right about this particular set of books. But since I am a Buffista and I have a datapoint to share...
Those of you who didn't grow up in tiny little towns in the buckle of the Bible Belt would be AMAZED how many virginities are lost on choir trips and youth retreats. And I still can't quite get over the fact that one of my most promiscuous classmates has metamorphosized into a fundamentalist Southern Baptist preacher-man.
Gris - May 13, 2008 4:17:45 pm PDT #5789 of 28355
Hey. New board.
Those of you who didn't grow up in tiny little towns in the buckle of the Bible Belt would be AMAZED how many virginities are lost on choir trips and youth retreats.
Yay church youth functions! I miss choir trips and youth retreats.
(Disclaimer: I did not lose my virginity on a choir trip or youth retreat. I just kissed a lot more people on them than in the rest of my high school experience combined.)
Polter-Cow - May 14, 2008 11:08:29 am PDT #5790 of 28355
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Cleolinda reviews Twilight.
Gris - May 14, 2008 3:30:05 pm PDT #5791 of 28355
Hey. New board.
Question about that review: she uses the word "totes" instead of "totally." Has that really entered the normal popular vernacular? Because I associate it, exclusively, with a small segment of the teen-to-twenties musical theater community that regularly watches/reads Andrew Keenan-Bolger's Blog. This is the first time I've ever seen/read/heard it outside of that context, and I need other data-points.
ETA: Well, apparently Urban Dictionary has an entry for it from way back in 2003. So I guess it's been around. Weird.
In unrelated but more on-topic news: I've discovered that I can re-read one of Piers Anthony's Xanth novels in a day flat. I've made it through the first 9 in the last week and a half. And it's AWESOME. He comes across as a bit of a prick in the Author's Notes, though.
Polter-Cow - May 14, 2008 3:31:38 pm PDT #5792 of 28355
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Question about that review: she uses the word "totes" instead of "totally." Has that really entered the normal popular vernacular?
I heard it for the first time a few years ago. From someone who is very gay but does not do musical theater.
meara - May 14, 2008 3:37:44 pm PDT #5793 of 28355
I associate "totes" with...some kind of blog. One of the ones I read. Go Fug Yourself, perhaps? Not sure.
I can re-read one of Piers Anthony's Xanth novels in a day flat. I've made it through the first 9 in the last week and a half. And it's AWESOME. He comes across as a bit of a prick in the Author's Notes, though.
Heh. I loved those in middle school, but they're definitely NOT ones I'm re-reading, I know they'd come off worse than I remember...and I remember them being pretty dang misogynistic and annoying.
Did you ever read his ones about the ...shoot, what were they? Two worlds, one with magic and one without? Mostly I looooved the idea of the game they played on the one world, where each person narrowed down what htey were playing on a grid, and it could end up being anythign from ice skating to chess, so there was a whole strategy in the picking, as well as once you actually got to the playing.
Ginger - May 14, 2008 3:39:24 pm PDT #5794 of 28355
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
He comes across as a bit of a prick in the Author's Notes, though.
You're not wrong.