I started Infinite Jest but egads, never finished. Yuck.
Sooner or later, you're gonna want it. And the second — the second — that happens, you know I'll be there. I'll slip in, have myself a real good day.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
Kat - Jun 21, 2008 6:10:06 pm PDT #6560 of 28379
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Sue - Jun 21, 2008 6:13:51 pm PDT #6561 of 28379
hip deep in pie
I started Infinite Jest but egads, never finished. Yuck.
Oh me too.
erikaj - Jun 21, 2008 9:11:54 pm PDT #6562 of 28379
Always Anti-fascist!
There were parts I thought were quite good, but it is not All That enough for 1000 pages.(Very few things are.) And I know I missed the ultimate Capital-P-type Point too, although I got the whole entertainment=addiction thing I sort of see his thinking there, but not all *that* much since I'm sitting around on a Buffy board on a Saturday night and all.(And were it not for this board I might need to fasten theses on the lowest halves of doors or something like that, so it's not like the board is robbing me of worshipping time or cancer-curing time.)
Jesse - Jun 22, 2008 7:36:08 am PDT #6563 of 28379
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I read Michael Tolliver Lives yesterday, and it was great to catch up with all the characters, although it felt a little too autobiographical in some respects, which made me wonder about the rest. (For example, see how Maupin met his husband on Wikipedia.) And I really hope Michael went to his mother's funeral.
Typo Boy - Jun 22, 2008 9:43:49 am PDT #6564 of 28379
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Belatedly, re Chelsea Quinn Yarbro: I always though CQY plots were driven by excessive vampire languidity.
CQY vampire lemming: "Oh this foolish mortal is about to plunge a dagger into my heart. I will languidly move two inches and teach him the error of his ways. OW! that damn dagger only missed my heart by two inches! I'm not dead, but I'm badly injured and it really hurts. Oh well, nobody could have see that coming. I'll let them bury me, brood while I slowly recover, come back to find the villain has killed several people I loved while I was out of commission, and take revenge for this totally unexpected turn of events."
hippocampus - Jun 23, 2008 2:05:30 am PDT #6565 of 28379
not your mom's socks.
neil gaiman's intro to the 10th anniversary edition of Synners needs to be cited here but I can't do it now because argh iPhone. So I'll just tell you all that this is my thinking.
sumi - Jun 23, 2008 3:57:22 am PDT #6566 of 28379
Art Crawl!!!
Has modern life killed the Semi-Colon? - from the Slate.
Typo Boy - Jun 23, 2008 9:39:45 am PDT #6567 of 28379
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Has modern life killed the Semi-Colon?
Not in my writing; excessive semi-colon use is one of my my major flaws.
Toddson - Jun 23, 2008 9:40:53 am PDT #6568 of 28379
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
so it's only semi-killed?
megan walker - Jun 23, 2008 10:02:43 am PDT #6569 of 28379
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Has modern life killed the Semi-Colon?
As Patricia T. O'Conner postulated over 10 years ago:
Maybe it intimidates us; it shouldn't.