I'm also very fond of the early 70s Daughters of Darkness with Delphine Seyrig.
Sacre merde, I do believe I've seen that one!
Wesley: Feng Shui. Gunn: Right. What's that mean again? Wesley: That people will believe anything. Actually, in this place, Feng Shui will probably have enormous significance. I'll align my furniture the wrong way and suddenly catch fire or turn into a pudding.
'Conviction (1)'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
deborah grabien - Apr 15, 2004 2:51:16 pm PDT #2259 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
DavidS - Apr 15, 2004 3:10:10 pm PDT #2260 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Daughters of Darkness. Evil with a finger wave.
deborah grabien - Apr 15, 2004 3:24:38 pm PDT #2261 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Yup. That's the one. Jeepers.
I may have to rent it and refresh my memory. It was a long time ago, and I was very probably zonked.
JoeCrow - Apr 15, 2004 6:54:05 pm PDT #2262 of 10002
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
Ooh. Tell us a story about that, please.
Not much to tell, sadly. He was living with his mom, which was why I never met his dad. We hung together some in 8th and 9th grade, about...
...20 years ago. Fuck, I'm old. Anyway, we played D&D occasionally, but we kinda drifted apart after 9th grade. My mom told me he died of some kind of heart thing last year. Hadn't seen him in years. Kinda sad, actually. Hadn't realized it was time to start checking the obits to see which friends had started to drop. Hmph.
Betsy HP - Apr 15, 2004 7:27:36 pm PDT #2263 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
John Bellairs died of a heart thing in the 90s. Damn. Sounds like it ran in the family.
sumi - Apr 16, 2004 6:15:02 am PDT #2264 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
I stopped at Walgreen's on my way home from work and noticed a book called Riding Lessons in the paperback rack.
Read the blurb: it's about a woman who stopped riding after a horrendous accident after which her horse was destroyed. This is her extremely unique red and white striped horse.
I had to buy it so I could find out how they justified the red and white stripes.
I mean, stripes I can buy (the horse could be a red dun) -- but a red dun would have darker red stripes on a red background, not red and white stripes.
flea - Apr 16, 2004 6:46:25 am PDT #2265 of 10002
information libertarian
Maybe it was related to the albino (stripeless) zebra? You'll have to let us know, sumi.
Katerina Bee - Apr 16, 2004 7:22:09 am PDT #2266 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
You know it'll be a good book when the author has a firm grip on zoology, history or other science stuff.
Danielle Steel (I think) wrote a book about a paraplegic who could ride her horse around so that nobody realized the terrible secret of her disability. She didn't get into just how mounting and dismounting occurred. Granted that I don't know much about riding horses, but balance and grip have to be important.
Aims - Apr 16, 2004 7:28:43 am PDT #2267 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
There is a special saddle for parapalegics and perhaps even quadrapalegics. And I believe that there are specially trained horses that use the saddles. Mind you, I think this about the horse. May not be true.
Pix - Apr 16, 2004 7:29:14 am PDT #2268 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
The only thing that normally holds a person on a horse is thigh strength. It's possible to ride without the use of your legs, but it would much harder.
ETA: What Aimee said.