I hope you got some more sleep, smonster.
River: I know you have questions. Mal: That would be why I just asked them.
'Objects In Space'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[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.
WindSparrow - Jan 20, 2011 2:53:54 am PST #13590 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
erikaj - Jan 20, 2011 3:52:14 am PST #13591 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Don't get me wrong, though...it's not something I would write essays or in-depth analysis..."Me and Mrs. Jones", yeah, the Pina Colada Song no. Which reminds me, if you haven't, I think everyone here needs to read Nick Hornby's "Juliet, Naked"...it's about music, but it's about fandom.
Fred Pete - Jan 20, 2011 4:59:37 am PST #13592 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
I do have guilty pleasures, but "Escape" isn't one of them. Though I prefer Rupert Holmes's two follow-up singles, "Him" and "Answering Machine." It's just that most people only remember "Escape."
Actually, "Answering Machine" (boy meets girl, boy dates girl, boy tries to call girl but only gets answering machine) could be integrated into an essay on the effect of technology on romantic relationships. But I wouldn't want to use it as the basis for an essay.
Anne W. - Jan 20, 2011 5:28:06 am PST #13593 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Snow day today! Sort of. I'm actually telecommuting, but the remote server keeps crashing under heavy use.
The cat keeps begging me to take him outside, and every single time I open the door he is SHOCKED and APPALLED that there is snow out there. He's sweet, but he's not the brightest animal.
Kate P. - Jan 20, 2011 5:38:11 am PST #13594 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Which reminds me, if you haven't, I think everyone here needs to read Nick Hornby's "Juliet, Naked"...it's about music, but it's about fandom.
Ah, yeah, I really enjoyed that book, though it didn't quite measure up to High Fidelity for me. But I love how Hornby writes about fandom. He really gets it.
erikaj - Jan 20, 2011 6:50:41 am PST #13595 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
High Fidelity is better, mostly because I don't get the same sense NH was thinking of his fans, writing stuff, and going "Ha, ha, they'll really dig this."(Sometimes it was true, sometimes not.) HF felt more personal,imo. But he does really understand the modern fanboy/girl and he gives shoutouts to things I love all the time...like "The Wire" and "The Rockford Files"(Which he listed along with spliff and a leather jacket as a component to happiness, iirc.)
Steph L. - Jan 20, 2011 6:51:41 am PST #13596 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
"Me and Mrs. Jones", yeah,
Ooooh, LOVE. I don't know why I don't own that one.
Music-relatedly, I have been earwormed with Solomon Burke's "Don't Give Up On Me" since I woke up. I love the song, but not on an endless loop. Geez.
erikaj - Jan 20, 2011 6:54:51 am PST #13597 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
I think I have it three different times. If I got a chance to meet Nick Hornby, or my crime-writing boyfriend George, I'd totally tell them that.
§ ita § - Jan 20, 2011 8:32:15 am PST #13598 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just discovered that the Hawaiian What A Wonderful World has been hiding on my iPod. This journey through All The Songs is illuminative, and is sparing me some duplicate purchases.
JZ - Jan 20, 2011 9:46:49 am PST #13599 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.
Random word and font geek grumpery:
How is it possible that, with a huge body of hand-engraved writing to work from, nobody has yet created a William Blake font? Or, at least, nobody who's then gone on to post it anyplace I can find through Google. I can't possibly be the first person ever to think of such a thing. Somebody else, somewhere, sometime, must have.
::shakes Internet vigorously, hoping Blakefont will just magically tumble out::