Heh, Suela, you wouldn't be... wrong.
She's a HUGE SPN fan and often uses the boys as avatars.
ETA: Oops, hit post too quickly-- thanks Deena, I know she'll appreciate it and listen honey, feel better first, k?
Police procedure has changed since I was little.
Wash ,'The Message'
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 23, 2008 8:50:56 am PST #8037 of 28427
“Not dead yet!”
Deena - Nov 23, 2008 8:54:36 am PST #8038 of 28427
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Thanks guys. I'm frustrated. Doctor again on Monday because this has been going on for about 3 weeks and it's not getting better.
sumi - Nov 23, 2008 9:03:05 am PST #8039 of 28427
Art Crawl!!!
3 weeks! That's no good. I hope that the doctor figures it out this time.
sj - Nov 23, 2008 9:04:36 am PST #8040 of 28427
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Deena, insent. Poor you, 3 weeks is way too long to feel crappy.
Consuela - Nov 23, 2008 9:06:46 am PST #8041 of 28427
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Heh, Suela, you wouldn't be... wrong
Hah! I am amused. I've spotted these avatars a couple of times, and it's always entertaining. I think the most obvious ones are David and Jonathon in Rachel Caine's Weather Warden series, who are quite clearly Daniel Jackson and Jack O'Neill...
sumi - Nov 23, 2008 9:14:05 am PST #8042 of 28427
Art Crawl!!!
Hee. Suela - I thought the same thing about Thann.
Okay, Thann is Sam and Nate is Jared (because of the dogs.)
That's what I thought.
Barb - Nov 23, 2008 9:18:59 am PST #8043 of 28427
“Not dead yet!”
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Consuela - Nov 23, 2008 10:43:18 am PST #8044 of 28427
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
BWAH. Barb, that's hysterical.
An old friend of my sister's, who's not tied into fandom and is a frustrated/unsold novelist, says she's been working a paranormal romance where the male lead is patterned after Mal Reynolds. I love it that even people outside fandom do this.
Polter-Cow - Nov 23, 2008 9:19:49 pm PST #8045 of 28427
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Today, I finished Pulitzer Prize-winner The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. My thoughts, let me show you them.
Barb - Nov 24, 2008 1:49:05 am PST #8046 of 28427
“Not dead yet!”
Yep-- that about nailed it. I haven't read it all the way through, but after one of my friends who was reading it, kept asking me to translate stuff or ask about context (some of which I knew, because it was more general Latino, some of which I didn't because it was more Dominican), I realized I never would.
And a lot of your complaints about the narrative are right on-- it's amusing at first, but then it begins to read as too studied and contrived and definitely, too cool for school. And I HATE footnotes in a novel. A bibliography or an afterward or something, but dude, I don't want to get caught up in the world of a novel only to stop to read a freakin' FOOTNOTE so I have some idea what's going on.
If you want to read an interesting book about DR immigrants, you should get Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.