And you're sure this isn't just some fanboy thing? 'Cause I've fought more than a couple pimply, overweight vamps that called themselves Lestat.

Buffy ,'Lessons'


Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


JZ - Dec 10, 2009 7:18:21 am PST #2978 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

“Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.”

I've seen that one on the buses here, and I always have the dual reaction of, "Oh, fuck you, you fucking fucks, you have no idea why I believe what I do and what I do with that belief" and "Oh, fuck you, Jacqueline, suck it up and deal. The folks who put that up are on the receiving end of some pretty awful stuff 99% of the time, it won't kill you to feel what they feel for the three seconds it takes the bus to pass."

Though those signs are [she said waggishly] preaching to the choir in this city. Or at least among my peer cohort, as actual actively practicing religious people are kinda rare in the white middle class college-educated artists/actors/writers/reenactors communities in the Bay Area. I've gradually, gradually come to realize that I'm not the only one, but it took us years to find each other out because we're all kind of secretive and sheepish and preemptively defensive about it and try not to out ourselves unless we have to. Which, really, is awesomely educational in helping us to get how atheists in most of the rest of the country feel.

Still, those are my second-least-favorite bus ads (the first least favorite is some other ad, for something else entirely, that I can't even remember; I only know it's either aggressively moronic or aggressively sexist and it rages me out so much every time I see it that I have completely blanked the campaign from my mind to prevent myself from stroking out every time I happen to think of it).


Hil R. - Dec 10, 2009 7:27:14 am PST #2979 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

My advisor submitted my letter of recommendation.


brenda m - Dec 10, 2009 7:28:15 am PST #2980 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Well, if Chicago is any example, hell does seem to be freezing over.


§ ita § - Dec 10, 2009 7:28:46 am PST #2981 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Though those signs are [she said waggishly] preaching to the choir in this city. Or at least among my peer cohort

There's really a predominant school of thought that religion makes individuals worse people? Most of the angry atheists I know personally are careful to rail against the institution, not the individual, and it's not like all of them have a bug in their ears.


JZ - Dec 10, 2009 7:36:04 am PST #2982 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Maybe not predominant with such aggressive wording, but definitely an unspoken base assumption among my peer cohort (which is admittedly a small, weird one). I've had several people express open shock at finding out I believe in God, because I'd always come across to them as so intelligent and reasonable.

The Bay Area is weird, though. You can't really extrapolate from this place to anywhere else on the planet.


sumi - Dec 10, 2009 7:40:22 am PST #2983 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!

Hil - I am so relieved for you.


Jessica - Dec 10, 2009 7:43:15 am PST #2984 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

From Fancy Fast Food - Bubbe Wendy's Latkes.

Hil, wow. What a relief!


smonster - Dec 10, 2009 7:43:30 am PST #2985 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

My advisor submitted my letter of recommendation.

Hoo-fucking-ray, and it's about fucking time.


Daisy Jane - Dec 10, 2009 7:44:41 am PST #2986 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

"Magical beliefs"? What's magic about them?

Prayer specifically, the story of Christ, the idea of the holy ghost. Religion is myth and superstition. That that fills a need for some people, the majority of people even, isn't a net good or bad, but I do feel that I am expected to be ok with myth and superstition governing my life.


Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Dec 10, 2009 7:47:59 am PST #2987 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

Hil, that's great (if appalling that it's taken so long).