I've read all the Anita Blake books, and I'm beginning to weary of them too. I never thought I'd say this, but I'd like just a little plot between sex acts.
Now, I can hold a note for a long time...actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.
Host ,'Why We Fight'
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."
Ginger - Jul 25, 2004 4:08:56 pm PDT #5324 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Volans - Jul 26, 2004 7:35:29 am PDT #5325 of 10002
move out and draw fire
LESS TWAT MORE PLOT!!
Sorry.
Volans - Jul 26, 2004 7:36:52 am PDT #5326 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Actually what I jumped in to say was that all Buffistas need to buy Eats, Shoots and Leaves: A Zero-Tolerance Approach to Punctuation at once.
It's funny and true. And has pandas on the cover!
Anne W. - Jul 26, 2004 7:45:42 am PDT #5327 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Raquel! I'm reading that right now and it's absolutely hysterical.
DavidS - Jul 26, 2004 7:49:35 am PDT #5328 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Actually what I jumped in to say was that all Buffistas need to buy Eats, Shoots and Leaves: A Zero-Tolerance Approach to Punctuation at once.
Oh no! It's Prescriptivists vs. Descriptivists again!
Didn't you see the smackdown The New Yorker gave to Eats, Shoots and Leaves?
Volans - Jul 26, 2004 7:50:56 am PDT #5329 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Isn't it? I bought it for airplane reading and giggled out loud the whole way. I just ordered a copy for one of my dear friends, who is also a Stickler. She's always used the phrase "eats, shoots and leaves" as an example, and her partner (who always gets sayings screwed up) uses "eats, shoots and ladders."
Lilty Cash - Jul 26, 2004 7:50:56 am PDT #5330 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
I'm finally working on Laurie Notaro's I Love Everybody (And Other Atrocious Lies). There's a chapter on 'The Sims' that almost made me wet myself (and go out and buy 'The Sims'. Which I actually did. Buy 'The Sims'. Not wet myself.)
sumi - Jul 26, 2004 9:00:03 am PDT #5331 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Wizardnews posts and interesting new entry in the f.a.q. for JK Rowlings official website. (Shamefully, I cannot find where the f.a.q. for the official website is.
sumi - Jul 26, 2004 9:01:21 am PDT #5332 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Serial -- have discovered that it is v. easy to find if you go to the "text only" version of the website.
Lyra Jane - Jul 26, 2004 12:07:16 pm PDT #5333 of 10002
Up with the sun
Interesting.
Rowling wrote;
Therefore Harry would be considered only 'half' wizard, because of his mother's grandparents.
To which the person managing the site commented:
In this FAQ entry, J.K. is stating, for the first time, that Harry's mother's grandparents were Muggles.[...] By telling us that the Muggle-blood in Harry comes from his great-grandparents, she seems to saying that both of Harry's grandparents, his Mother's parents, were Wizards.
Alternately -- and given that this is Rowling, I don't think this is unlikely -- "his mother's grandparents" could be a mistake for "his grandparents on his mother's side." To me, that fits better with the book's canon. But I tend to speed-read HP, so I may be missing something that fits better with the website maintainer's interpretation.