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On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!

Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'

Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

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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."

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Frankenbuddha - Jun 25, 2009 7:29:40 am PDT #9360 of 28404

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Also, I am large with the A Separate Peace hate. In fact, I feel rather spiteful about it, and happy whenever someone says something bad about it, which is an oddly personal reaction to the book.

My feelings for A Separate Peace can be summed up by a parody I wrote (I think for class), where the slight twitch of the branch isn't enough to dislodge Phineas, so he has to jump up and down on the branch a few times to dislodge him (and I think I even had him need to stamp on Phineas' hands).

I had Jilli sign a bookmark, as I don't think I will be able to make it to the NY signing. Too much going on at work right now.

Volans - Jun 25, 2009 7:53:14 am PDT #9361 of 28404

move out and draw fire

That photo from the signing is ADORABLE.

ETA: Do you guys market the curlybat table runners? Because WANT.

Aims - Jun 25, 2009 9:04:19 am PDT #9362 of 28404

Shit's all sorts of different now.

I bought TWO copies of GCS today! I am giving one to my co-worker whose daughter is quote, "Going Goth". YAY BOOK!!

Jessica - Jun 25, 2009 9:27:21 am PDT #9363 of 28404

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I've only had time to skim the intro so far, and the book is making me wish I had more of a personality in high school. I was never confident enough in what I liked to develop a coherent look, and the result is as an adult I present myself far more generically than I'd really like to. (And with a mortgage and a toddler, I have too much debt to completely redo my wardrobe anyway. Woe is me!)

I have decided I'm going back to the blue hair very soon though. I'm tired of this natural look.

Aims - Jun 25, 2009 9:30:41 am PDT #9364 of 28404

Shit's all sorts of different now.

I was never confident enough in what I liked to develop a coherent look, and the result is as an adult I present myself far more generically than I'd really like to.

Jessica and I are the same in this regard. It's only been recently - like since having Emeline - that I've started to go a little more funky in my look and a little less homogenous.

Laga - Jun 25, 2009 9:49:46 am PDT #9365 of 28404

You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I was a punk in high school but I had a big crush on a... well we didn't call them goths back then, she was a 'doom & gloom' kid.

Connie Neil - Jun 25, 2009 9:50:56 am PDT #9366 of 28404

brillig

I was also an amorphous lump in high school. It wasn't until college, when I went to a totally different town where no one knew me that I had the confidence to become someone new.

Volans - Jun 25, 2009 10:05:39 am PDT #9367 of 28404

move out and draw fire

I am giving one to my co-worker whose daughter is quote, "Going Goth"

That's a great idea! I shall purchase one for my cow-orker's daughter (this is the one where the dad found me at work and said "I bet you listen to Evanescence. Do you think it's OK for a teenage girl to listen to?").

I didn't know I was goth, but I was, as much as I could manage. I would love to dress in a combo of 1940s and goth now, but I am actually a Lazy!Goth.

Barb - Jun 25, 2009 10:14:28 am PDT #9368 of 28404

“Not dead yet!”

I'm a total late bloomer. It's only been in my thirties that I've had the confidence to unapologetically be who I am-- whether it's a slob on writing days or to the nines when the occasion warrants, because, as Jilli says in her video, it makes me happy.

Calli - Jun 25, 2009 10:18:58 am PDT #9369 of 28404

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I seem to be sliding into yoga-hippie, with just enough leather to keep 8-year-olds from beating me up for my lunch money. But I'm still looking forward to my copy of GCS arriving. (Why did I take the free, but slow, delivery option? Why?)

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