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.
A ghost? What's the deal? Is every frat on this campus haunted? And if so, why do people keep coming to these parties, cause it's not the snacks.
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
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."
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
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.
sj - Nov 24, 2008 4:11:12 am PST #8047 of 28427
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
There is a great little letter in Neil Gaiman's blog this morning about how most girls the letter writer's age are all excited about the Twilight movie, she's excited about the Coraline movie. link