I've liked/kept up with Alexie since my early Salon.com TT days (1995 or so), where he was a regular poster.
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."
My favorite was when he said in re the Bering Strait landshelf deal: "No, we're really first. Neener." Or something adult like that. But it almost really made me rotfl, with my two drops of native blood and all that.
We go back to the Trail of Tears in four easy generations. But I still can't be real Indian, though. No jump shot.
My family (OK, one great-grandmother's family) somehow skipped the whole Trail of Tears trip. Not sure how they managed it, but they ended up in North Carolina.
Kate Beaton on the recent Austen re-visionings. Golly, I love Hark, A Vagrant!
My last birthday present arrived today -- P&P with Zombies. It is the only p& P 'extra' I ever wanted....
I really like the Jane Austen mystery series by Stephanie Barron, but it started before this craze really took off.
Oh, I've read one of those, and I agree it was perfectly enjoyable.
Angelina Jolie's going to be Kay Scarpetta.
um ... (boggles)