You can have my ass, connie, just not my book.
May I use this as a tag, Heather? I'll include the 10Comm ref if you want to make sure that people don't start thinking you're making offers you don't intend.
I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.
Cheese Man ,'Chosen'
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."
Connie Neil - Jul 03, 2004 5:47:20 pm PDT #4558 of 10002
brillig
Jessica - Jul 03, 2004 5:52:02 pm PDT #4559 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I refuse to accept that Crichton is not science fiction because he is a horrible writer or because is "tone" is mainstream.
Go back and read my post again. I'm not arguing that point.
Gus - Jul 03, 2004 5:52:40 pm PDT #4560 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Ginger will soon come by. We will have a moment together where we will imagine the number of discussions we have heard -- or participated in -- that have tried to define science fiction. The number will soon grow large enough that giggling will ensue.
"Giggling Ginger"
Damn good band name.
Typo Boy - Jul 03, 2004 5:56:59 pm PDT #4561 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
OK - fair enough Jessica - you were talking your particular mental bookstore. Set off a reflex from some really old arguments.
DavidS - Jul 03, 2004 7:04:04 pm PDT #4562 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
JZ is reading Moby Dick in the other room and just laughed out loud.
Previously she was reading an Alan Moore era Swamp Thing TPB and gasping at plot turns: "Oh! Oh no! Oh no!"
Polter-Cow - Jul 03, 2004 7:11:48 pm PDT #4563 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
JZ is reading Moby Dick in the other room and just laughed out loud.
She just got to "The Squeezing of the Sperm," didn't she?
Let me see if I can find some quotes from my American Lit prof:
"It's the original Lord of the Rings."
"Like any good white Christian with a dark person in front of him, he starts to scream."
"There are no women here. This is the 19th century."
"We're gonna talk about sperm anyway...You're supposed to laugh, every time I say that."
Student: "You can take it as a replacement for the sex act, if you really want to go there."
Dr. Aranda: "Yes, right, we do want to go there."
"The fancy word for knowledge is 'epistemology.' [starts writing, stops] I can't even spell it; that's how fancy it is."
"Yeah, he's a freaky whale."
DavidS - Jul 03, 2004 7:13:14 pm PDT #4564 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Dr. Aranda rocks.
P.M. Marc - Jul 03, 2004 7:25:04 pm PDT #4565 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
In the library in my brain, Michael Chricton does not get shelved with the sci-fi
See, in the library in my brain, he just doesn't get shelved.
billytea - Jul 03, 2004 7:31:53 pm PDT #4566 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Dr. Aranda rocks.
Dr Aranda is freaking me out because Aranda is the name of a Canberra suburb, which when I lived there had the distinction of being about the only residential suburb with no government housing whatsoever.
...Ok, so I'm easily freaked out right now.
DavidS - Jul 03, 2004 7:45:18 pm PDT #4567 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
...Ok, so I'm easily freaked out right now.
"Look! A firefly!"