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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."


Sue - Jun 25, 2009 12:45:07 pm PDT #9393 of 28404
hip deep in pie

I do just want to re-iterate: capris are of the devil

Ditto. They are for the long of leg. Not someone with a 25" inseam.


Jessica - Jun 25, 2009 12:47:57 pm PDT #9394 of 28404
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Tapered capris make me look like a pear, but I do like the wide-legged styles for an office-friendly alternative to skirts in the summer. (So-called "work shorts" are NEVER an option. /judgypants )


Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jun 25, 2009 12:48:46 pm PDT #9395 of 28404
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd

I know of one occasion so far of someone only of slight goth leanings showing the book to a complete non-goth who decided she wanted a copy.

I hope that becomes a trend, not just for sales (though that'd be nice) but because so much of the book is about getting the masses to better understand Goth.


Anne W. - Jun 25, 2009 12:50:28 pm PDT #9396 of 28404
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

clutches Brooks Brothers discount card tightly

I loves me my twinsets, oh yes I do

I will be going to my local independent bookstore this weekend. If they do not have Jilli's book, I will order it and pimp it mightily. The owner does frequently order on customer recommendation, so... (crosses fingers).


Dana - Jun 25, 2009 12:55:43 pm PDT #9397 of 28404
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I was totally anti-capri until I found a straight-legged pair. Which may make them not capri pants, IDK.


ChiKat - Jun 25, 2009 1:01:40 pm PDT #9398 of 28404
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

retreats in terror from the Bon Jovi earworm

smiles in glee from the Bon Jovi earworm.

Thanks, juliana!!

I love capris a lot. I wear them pretty much all summer.

So-called "work shorts" are NEVER an option

I have worn bermudas to work but that's because our school is not air conditioned and my room would get over 90 degrees.


Amy - Jun 25, 2009 1:03:11 pm PDT #9399 of 28404
Because books.

I like capris in the summer.

And I love most gothy things very much, but I can't see ever pulling off the look. I'm also very lazy, though -- at home, I almost never wear makeup and I'm usually in one of two pairs of jeans and a comfortable shirt.


Sheryl - Jun 25, 2009 1:07:17 pm PDT #9400 of 28404
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

I don't think I really have a "look". Generic geeky at cons, just generic at work. My earring collection is the only bit of funkiness I do.

I don't wear capris, as I know they'll make me look stumpier than I am.


Connie Neil - Jun 25, 2009 1:31:37 pm PDT #9401 of 28404
brillig

Not only are capris evil, they're banned at my office. Skirts or long pants. I'm not sure guys have the option of skirts, though I'd like to see someone try the kilt thing.


Fay - Jun 25, 2009 2:54:49 pm PDT #9402 of 28404
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

I am very sorry that Goth, as an aesthetic, was absolutely nowhere on my horizon when I was a teenager. I mean, there were a couple of girls at my (all-girl, uniform-wearing) school who, in retrospect, were Goths - but that was the flavour of Goth involving having hair like Robert Smith, and listening to The Cure. And whilst I'm perfectly well disposed to The Cure, it's the whole reading-Vampire-lit/Gothic-novels, wearing-antiquated-styles-of-clothing, having-picnics-in-graveyards, liking-poetry-and-Victorian-follies side of things I was (am) far more fond of. Also, the whole notion of Goth Clubs having an approach to music and dancing that involves being swoopy and fabulous on one's own strikes me as pure brilliance.

sighs

But I am evidently not a Goth. I think I may be Goth-adjacent, and in some other universe I would totally have been a Goth - but there's another other universe where I'd totally have been doing SCA things.

...er, both of these universes seem to involve me having an American accent, though.