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!
I was under the impression that I was your big comfy blanky.
Oz ,'Him'
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."
Volans - Jul 26, 2004 7:36:52 am PDT #5326 of 10002
move out and draw fire
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.
sumi - Jul 26, 2004 12:32:31 pm PDT #5334 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
The interesting thing is that the Wizardnews folks mentioned the whole Dudley could be considered a half-blood thing.
Trudy Booth - Jul 26, 2004 12:48:54 pm PDT #5335 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I saw it the way you did, Lyra.
Though a wizard Dudley is amusing...