So, in thinking about genre, have any of you read Chabon's Maps and Legends? Thoughts?
Oh, Pacey! You blind idiot. Can't you see she doesn't love you?
Spike ,'Help'
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."
Kat - Mar 24, 2009 8:34:24 pm PDT #8628 of 28431
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Fay - Mar 24, 2009 9:23:37 pm PDT #8629 of 28431
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
PC, that is awesome. In a pole-axing way. So long as it isn't the match that sets the fanfic house on fire, I'm good. (And, frankly, since the HP novels are all out now, and HP fanfic didn't make anything go boom in a big way, I'm much less nervous about this than I once was.)
Fay - Mar 24, 2009 9:23:50 pm PDT #8630 of 28431
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Calli - Mar 25, 2009 1:09:30 am PDT #8631 of 28431
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
And on top of the weird metaphor fest, "Spikenard"? The protagonist's name is "Spikenard"? Really?
Frankenbuddha - Mar 25, 2009 4:55:12 am PDT #8632 of 28431
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
And is it pronounced "Spike-nard"? "Spick-en-ard"? "Spiken-ard"?
Spickeloost, anyone?
Toddson - Mar 25, 2009 5:12:22 am PDT #8633 of 28431
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I don't think anyone here is feeling much in the way of "oost".
sumi - Mar 25, 2009 5:38:19 am PDT #8634 of 28431
Art Crawl!!!
At Borzoi, you can sign up to receive a poem a day during the month of April (National Poetry Month.)
Fay - Mar 25, 2009 7:14:25 am PDT #8635 of 28431
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I like the idea that the other characters might be called Angelnard, and Drusillanard, and Buffynard. It could be a whole new cunning form of C&D-proof fanfic. Really, really, REALLY bad C&D-proof fanfic.
Strix - Mar 25, 2009 8:44:42 am PDT #8636 of 28431
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Spikenard is an herb. Well, a plant; I'm pretty sure it's a herb, although I do not know what properties I has. I think it's just smelley; it's not like an interesting poison or anything.
Now that my internet is (knock wood) working better, I gotta read that thing.
Strix - Mar 25, 2009 8:55:32 am PDT #8637 of 28431
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh. Oh, I read it. It's the worst "Song of Solomon" on mushrooms mated with the sad, raped memory of Walt Whitman ever. Gah.
And I gotta wonder what kind of breasts this guy saw to use cheese as a metaphoric descriptor. Arrrrrooo?