My favorite sports fandom moment is the Stanford Band "Play."
Young Simon: So... how'd the Independents cut us off? Young River: They were using dinosaurs.
'Safe'
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 - Jan 02, 2009 10:08:37 am PST #8249 of 28431
“Not dead yet!”
Fay - Jan 02, 2009 10:20:47 am PST #8250 of 28431
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
How do you pronounce "Kvothe"?
Happily, he explains this long before it becomes an issue - since initially we meet him going under a less daunting nom de guerre.
It's pronounced almost exactly like Quoth.
Typo Boy - Jan 02, 2009 10:22:20 am PST #8251 of 28431
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Then since presumably the language does not use a western alphabet, it ought to be be spelled "Quoth". Which is not a big deal to stop me from enjoying it, cause it sound very much like my cup to tea.
Fay - Jan 02, 2009 10:24:05 am PST #8252 of 28431
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Well, I think the key word there is almost.
I'm mentally pronouncing it...well, Kvothe is the phonetic rendering of how I'm mentally pronouncing it, actually. Quoth, with a Kv sound instead of a Kw sound at the start.
Laga - Jan 02, 2009 10:56:32 am PST #8253 of 28431
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Qvoth the raven, "nethermore"
Fay - Jan 02, 2009 10:57:29 am PST #8254 of 28431
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Putting the Po into Porn. Brava.
beth b - Jan 02, 2009 11:03:39 am PST #8255 of 28431
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
YA fans , or just good book fans -- run to the nearest bookstore/library and go find Shift by Jenifer Bradbury. So good. Chris is just starting college, when an FBI agent turns up asking questions about his friend Win. Chris and Win went on a bike ride across country after graduation, but at the end of journey Win disappears. The story is told with alternating chapters current time vs. the summer trip. Really good. really well done. and my DH the book snob , stole it from me and said I had to read it.
lisah - Jan 05, 2009 6:12:19 am PST #8256 of 28431
Punishingly Intricate
Has anyone read The Monsters of Templeton ? It got a lot of good press but my boyfriend & I just read it (for our completely dorky two-person bookclub) and both loathed it.
Steph L. - Jan 05, 2009 6:46:49 am PST #8257 of 28431
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
(for our completely dorky two-person bookclub)
That's awesome! All I can get The Boy to read is Blue Beetle. Which is pretty good, except for the rat bastards at DC cancelling it.
Laga - Jan 05, 2009 2:50:23 pm PST #8258 of 28431
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I have The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. So far I have only read the introduction and acknowledgments and I am fairly buzzing with excitement.