there are a whole host of books like this:
Buffy: Dancing with you is way better than trying to hook up with some good-looking guy. Xander: I think I liked it more when you were kicking me in my puffy groin.
'Get It Done'
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."
le nubian - Apr 09, 2009 9:53:50 am PDT #8816 of 28414
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Barb - Apr 09, 2009 10:14:54 am PDT #8817 of 28414
“Not dead yet!”
Sue - Apr 09, 2009 10:41:39 am PDT #8818 of 28414
hip deep in pie
Gloria Vanderbilt is alive?
le nubian - Apr 09, 2009 10:45:21 am PDT #8819 of 28414
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Now I'm not certain which is more disturbing:
the prospect that Vanderbilt is writing erotica OR
the prospect that zombie Vanderbilt is writing erotica
Barb - Apr 09, 2009 10:46:14 am PDT #8820 of 28414
“Not dead yet!”
Gloria Vanderbilt is alive?
Apparently. And still squicking out poor Anderson with tales of her sexual exploits.
Fay - Apr 09, 2009 10:56:20 am PDT #8821 of 28414
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I'm really liking the notion of zombie Vanderbilt writing erotica. I think that's a fabulous notion.
Calli - Apr 09, 2009 11:15:30 am PDT #8822 of 28414
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm really liking the notion of zombie Vanderbilt writing erotica. I think that's a fabulous notion.
Awww. Anderson Cooper just curled up in a whimpering fetal ball, and he doesn't even know why.
Polter-Cow - Apr 09, 2009 10:32:36 pm PDT #8823 of 28414
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just finished Death's Daughter, by Amber Benson.
Kat - Apr 10, 2009 5:29:44 am PDT #8824 of 28414
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
le nubian, thanks for the amazon links! that's PRECISELY what my students could use. Not the Bible, but really a reader of select passages of the Bible.
And if none of those things happened and I still didn't get the reference (and I'm sure that has happened) it probably wasn't that important.
Unless, of course, you are working with a group of kids reading "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock," who have no idea who Lazarus is and it shows up as one of the essays on the AP exam they have paid $80+ to take. Then it sort of is that important.
(Granted, I hate Prufrock and many of them loved it because they did love the untangling of the allusions).
Or, a better example is that my students had no idea who the sirens are because Greek Mythology is no longer part of the CA Standards for English (I think for history they are, but in 6th grade). So they don't read the Odyssey anymore and Clash of the Titans has not been on constant replay on TNT for 10 years. When they took an exam (from the 90s) that asked them to compare Homer's sirens to Atwood's version, they flailed. So we did a 3 hour thing on mythology to cover most of the basics.
The gaps can be important. Unfortunately, I never know what gaps appear nor do I know what is on this year's test.
Emily - Apr 10, 2009 6:00:58 am PDT #8825 of 28414
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Granted, I hate Prufrock
Say it ain't so, Kat!
Mind you, I always have to read the notation on Eliot because while I think I'm getting the allusions I invariably interpret them wrong.