I'll go check them out-- Borders has got a coupon for a big buy one get one half price sale going on, so it might be a good time to pick up stocking stuffers. By the by, if anyone wants the coupon:
Saffron: You just had a better hand of cards this time. Mal: It ain't a hand of cards. It's called a life.
'Trash'
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."
Barb - Nov 17, 2008 1:34:07 pm PST #7952 of 28414
“Not dead yet!”
Barb - Nov 18, 2008 12:07:21 pm PST #7953 of 28414
“Not dead yet!”
BWAH!!!! Best Beginner's Guide to Sparkly Vampires article ever. And it references cleolinda!
Polter-Cow - Nov 18, 2008 12:13:47 pm PST #7954 of 28414
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ha ha, I love it!
Edward's family may not sing and dance on their own variety show but they do play vampire baseball. That's not me trying to be funny. They actually play vampire baseball.
And, hee, Cleo is funny!
"Yeah, it's like, Bella wants to be a vampire but she doesn't want to be a vampire before she's had sex as a human, and Edward doesn't want her to be a vampire but he wants to get married, but Bella doesn't want to get married unless she can be a vampire, but Edward won't have sex with her until they get married, and then you put the fox and the grain in the boat and you leave the goose back on the riverbank."
Barb - Nov 18, 2008 12:31:11 pm PST #7955 of 28414
“Not dead yet!”
The video interview they link to with Robert Pattinson is pretty interesting too. Says some very revealing things--
Strega - Nov 18, 2008 12:36:29 pm PST #7956 of 28414
I knew it had to be Dave White from the bit you quoted.
I heart him.
Toddson - Nov 19, 2008 6:50:04 am PST #7957 of 28414
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I haven't read Twilight and don't plan to, but I HAVE to know - what is vampire baseball?
Jessica - Nov 19, 2008 6:54:35 am PST #7958 of 28414
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I haven't read Twilight either, but I have a question based on the screening of the movie DH went to last night. (Whitefonted in case this is a movie spoiler.)
So apparently, in the movie, Native Americans are werewolves who are at war with the vampires. Since the vampires are (a) the good guys in this fight and (b) REALLY REALLY FUCKING WHITE, my question is - are the books this racist, or did the movie make this shit up???
juliana - Nov 19, 2008 7:16:05 am PST #7959 of 28414
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Jessica, the movie's not making it up. The author's Mormonism is a strong influence on her writing.
(spoiler font)
So, the Book of Mormon claims that one of the original Tribes of Israel split off, went to the New World (this becoming Native Americans), and became the Lamanites. The dark skin of the "Lamanites" (and other, dark-skinned peoples) is considered a mark of the curse that God put on them when they turned away from Him. To say I, personally, consider the BoM racist is an understatement, but some people are quick to point out that there's no explicit condemnation.
Jessica - Nov 19, 2008 7:19:37 am PST #7960 of 28414
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Aha - that makes perfect sense. Thanks.
meara - Nov 19, 2008 9:05:07 am PST #7961 of 28414
Well, and I only read the first book, but technically, aren't MOST vampires still bad? I mean, the ones that the chickie in the book likes are good cause they've given up eating people, so the werewolf Natives have come to an uneasy truce with that family, over the years, but still don't want her to like them, etc. But most vampires still eat people, so they're bad, adn should be hunted by the werewolves, or whatever?