Lorne: Once the word spreads you beat up an innocent old man, well, the truly terrible will think twice before going toe-to-toe with our Avenging Angel. Spike: Yes. The geriatric community will be soiling their nappies when they hear you're on the case. Bravo.

'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'


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."


Toddson - Sep 30, 2008 3:50:02 am PDT #7599 of 28404
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

oh, dear


Fay - Sep 30, 2008 4:11:32 am PDT #7600 of 28404
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Well, that's a superhero in the making if ever I heard one! Armed with super alertness, caffeine power and amazing sonic hearing? Perhaps Battaccino? Batspresso? Batte?


Fay - Sep 30, 2008 4:13:04 am PDT #7601 of 28404
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Toddson - Sep 30, 2008 4:24:53 am PDT #7602 of 28404
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Marginally less disgusting than the coffee that's passed through the digestive tract of some Vietnamese animal. bleah


Fay - Sep 30, 2008 4:27:54 am PDT #7603 of 28404
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

And, hey, if it's rabid, you might get cappuccino!


Toddson - Sep 30, 2008 4:29:11 am PDT #7604 of 28404
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Aqua pazze?


DavidS - Sep 30, 2008 3:38:46 pm PDT #7605 of 28404
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

For all my insomniac buffistas I offer you this description from Michael Frayn's Sweet Dreams:

And enjoys a perfect night’s sleep–deep, clear, and refreshing, like gliding down through sunlit water on a hot day; such a perfect night’s sleep that he is entirely unconscious of how much he is enjoying it, or of its depth, clarity, and refreshingness, or its resemblance to gliding through sunlit water on a hot day; so perfect that from time to time he half wakes, just enough to become conscious of how unconscious of everything he is.


§ ita § - Sep 30, 2008 5:43:44 pm PDT #7606 of 28404
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Having had the coffee that's been through the animal's gut I opine that the bat in the machine is worse.

Because that's the last book I read online, and I loved the hell out of it.

Actually, no. I will check it out.


Fay - Sep 30, 2008 6:33:42 pm PDT #7607 of 28404
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Cool! She is so much more fun than Florence Nightingale.The scene when she arrives at her brother's hotel just slayed me. Also the bit when she's being toasted by the Americans in spite of being "yeller". Her response is fabulous.


§ ita § - Sep 30, 2008 7:33:09 pm PDT #7608 of 28404
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I did always think smugly of her when taught about Ms. Nightingale, despite my being considerably less humanitarian than either of them.