Calli, you can always buy more books for vacation.
This is a time of celebration, so sit still and be quiet.
Snyder ,'Chosen'
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."
sj - Nov 29, 2008 8:45:12 am PST #8094 of 28427
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Jesse - Nov 30, 2008 3:55:07 pm PST #8095 of 28427
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Over the weekend, in one brief conversation, my mother spoiled the big surprise endings (or at least major plot points) of TWO books I will probably read! NOT ON, MOM. She was like, Oh, you'll forget by the time you read them. NO I WILL NOT.
Polter-Cow - Nov 30, 2008 4:14:33 pm PST #8096 of 28427
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
You won't! You'll forget, but then the minute you actually start reading the book, it will click and you'll remember and BOOOOOO.
DavidS - Dec 02, 2008 8:31:38 am PST #8097 of 28427
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Onion A.V. Club reviews George Plimpton's biography.
Which is in itself cool, but then in the comments section there evolves a series of blue blooded porn bits with ascots and monocles that's engaging reading.
Plimpton comes off as such a delightful creature that not even the unsavory revelation that the Paris Review perennial attended numerous orgies in the seventies can sully his air of boyish enthusiasm and almost oppressive geniality that surrounds him even in death.
That blew my mind and caused my monocle to shatter into a million little pieces. Can you even imagine what it would be like to attend an orgy in the disco era and have George Motherfucking Plimpton walk through the door? That would freak me the fuck out. I would find it hard to concentrate on the task at hand because I’d spend the entire time thinking, “Holy shit! That’s George Plimpton over there wacking away at some fetching lass with his joint.” I suspect that if someone of Plimpton’s stature were to frequent orgies today blurry footage of their sexcapades would pop up on the internet within the hour.
Jesse - Dec 02, 2008 9:48:30 am PST #8098 of 28427
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I love George Plimpton so much! Actually, I had a letter to the editor of Vanity Fair printed after an error in a profile of him a few years ago. And by "I had," I mean I wrote the letter and sent it over my boss's name.
sarameg - Dec 02, 2008 3:18:28 pm PST #8099 of 28427
Allende's Paula is inextricably linked to riding on a bus through the Slovakian hinterlands. Even though it has no resemblance at all to the surroundings I was in.
DavidS - Dec 04, 2008 1:09:48 pm PST #8100 of 28427
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Does everybody know about the Horror Masters site?
It's a huge archive of public domain horror, pulp and fantasy stories in a very readable .pdf format.
So if, for example, you get the urge to read "The Yellow Wallpaper" or "The Monkey's Paw" or even whole novels like Wm. Beckford's Vathek it's there for you. They've got 2,866 titles. Novels, short stories and poetry. Hawthorne, Machen, ETA Hoffman, Stoker, Shelley, Wilkie Collins... All on the dark side, all free.
Jessica - Dec 05, 2008 10:28:06 am PST #8101 of 28427
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
sumi - Dec 05, 2008 10:30:26 am PST #8102 of 28427
Art Crawl!!!
That is hilarious!
Must send link to all friends.
juliana - Dec 05, 2008 10:38:59 am PST #8103 of 28427
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Knut just posted this link on Facebook and it cracked me up:
I love it! (I just re-read the book the other week, too.)