Speaking of a few quick strokes of the pen (couldn't resist), have you seen this?
Now, I can hold a note for a long time...actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.
Host ,'Why We Fight'
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 - Nov 06, 2008 4:00:13 am PST #7873 of 28762
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Ginger - Nov 06, 2008 4:10:10 am PST #7874 of 28762
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I've somehow missed whether there's a name for a male Mary Sue. I'm thinking of the sort of character who's a doctor who lands a commercial airplane in an emergency; finds food and water in the wilderness; makes an electric generator with spare parts; is true to his one true love while being hit on by everyone woman he meets; and has steely gray eyes and a determined chin.
Toddson - Nov 06, 2008 4:13:33 am PST #7875 of 28762
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Marty Sue
Barb - Nov 06, 2008 4:14:57 am PST #7876 of 28762
“Not dead yet!”
Alpha male. (in current romance parlance... sorry, couldn't help myself.)
Jessica - Nov 06, 2008 4:15:43 am PST #7877 of 28762
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Jack?
amych - Nov 06, 2008 4:17:32 am PST #7878 of 28762
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Jack?
Snerk.
Ginger - Nov 06, 2008 4:20:18 am PST #7879 of 28762
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Jack definitely is one, whatever one is.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 06, 2008 4:40:02 am PST #7880 of 28762
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I've somehow missed whether there's a name for a male Mary Sue. I'm thinking of the sort of character who's a doctor who lands a commercial airplane in an emergency; finds food and water in the wilderness; makes an electric generator with spare parts; is true to his one true love while being hit on by everyone woman he meets; and has steely gray eyes and a determined chin.
MacGyver.
Fred Pete - Nov 06, 2008 5:16:01 am PST #7881 of 28762
Ann, that's a ferret.
the sort of character who's a doctor who lands a commercial airplane in an emergency; finds food and water in the wilderness; makes an electric generator with spare parts; is true to his one true love while being hit on by everyone woman he meets; and has steely gray eyes and a determined chin.
I'm surprised nobody named Buckaroo Banzai.
Connie Neil - Nov 06, 2008 5:21:33 am PST #7882 of 28762
brillig
I'm surprised nobody named Buckaroo Banzai.
Well, there was no mention of surgery or playing an instrument.