As the main basher of the Bovine
gasp You!
Wash: You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress? Jayne: I'll chip in. Zoe: I can hurt you.
'Shindig'
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."
Polter-Cow - Jul 02, 2004 8:51:13 am PDT #4277 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
P.M. Marc - Jul 02, 2004 8:53:00 am PDT #4278 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
gasp You!
The OTHER Bovine, silly.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 02, 2004 8:53:30 am PDT #4279 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Yes, that is a legitimate response; double, if you come from New England.
You know, I'd never thought of the New England factor, but it makes so much sense now.
Right now I'm waiting for my copy of The Long Goodbye to come in.
I know this isn't the movie thread, but if you haven't already, 'suela, after you've read it, whether you like it or not, it would be interesting to rent the movie. If you've got a particular dislike of Altman, Elliot Gould (but really good Elliot Gould) and/or seventies cinema (not really a genre, but there is a certain distinct something to a lot of it) then ignore the advice, but it's an interesting comparison/contrast. Plus the screenplay's by Leigh Brackett who also wrote the script for the Hawks BIG SLEEP (among several other Hawks movies, and THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK).
Consuela - Jul 02, 2004 8:55:42 am PDT #4280 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Thousands of books, one show per thread. Occam and Soul Coughing suggest that Correlation is not Causation in this case.
Yes, this. Thank you, Plei.
Is it time to invoke Nutty's Law? Quite possibly. It's not like anyone here is too retiring to make their case.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 02, 2004 8:55:57 am PDT #4281 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Occam and Soul Coughing suggest that Correlation is not Causation in this case.
t Hearting Plei right now.
Jen - Jul 02, 2004 8:56:19 am PDT #4282 of 10002
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
I go to sleep now, and await the massive flaming I will receive whilst I'm gone.
Sean, my only "flame" is that your comment belongs in the Music thread, where the people who hang out there can respond to your accusation of elitism there.
Connie Neil - Jul 02, 2004 8:59:50 am PDT #4283 of 10002
brillig
Nothing for "Dead! Dead, my lords and gentlewomen. Dead, you Right Reverends and wrong reverends of every order, Dead, men and women, born with heavenly compassion in you hearts. And dying thus around us, every day."
What's that from! Amazing how a good quote will suck me in.
Micole - Jul 02, 2004 9:01:52 am PDT #4284 of 10002
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
And Gwendolen's painful growing up. Her sections were a bit dull at the beginning, but by the end, I wept for her.
Gwendolen is the part of that book that works for me. I liked her from the beginning.
Esther Summerson, now -- there I had a similar trajectory to the one you described. At the beginning I wanted to strangle her for her continual hesitation and self-deprecation and overweening humility (one of my professors made a good case for this as one a realistic portrait of psychological damage -- quite different from the effect Dickens was going for in the rest of the book -- but it still grated terribly), and then by the end I felt deeply and terribly for her.
P.M. Marc - Jul 02, 2004 9:03:42 am PDT #4285 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
What's that from! Amazing how a good quote will suck me in.
Bleak House, IIRC.
JZ - Jul 02, 2004 9:08:41 am PDT #4286 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
While I am sad to be shunned by Nutty, I must admit to a lack of tears. And yet I still have big love for Bleak House. Just not the cryin' kind of love.