Well, and a movie is the classic example of a collaborative effort: it cannot physically be created by a single person.
I gave her everything... jewels, beautiful dresses -- with beautiful girls in them.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
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."
Consuela - Sep 21, 2004 8:31:52 am PDT #5936 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Gus - Sep 21, 2004 8:34:47 am PDT #5937 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
t Hopes that the phrase "Gilmore Girls meets Witches of Eastwick" t enflames the imagination of a talented ficcer.
Consuela - Sep 21, 2004 8:40:22 am PDT #5938 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
t blinks
Gus, what are you trying to get at here?
Steph L. - Sep 21, 2004 8:40:31 am PDT #5939 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
William Safire on how the Grey Lady finally embraced the izzle.
Calli - Sep 21, 2004 8:41:23 am PDT #5940 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
are you going to tell Faulkner he's got too many adjectives and adverbs?
Yes. But my Faulkner issues are well documented and likely to become a movie of the week staring Emma Thompson.
I guess as long as people are willing to buy Anne Rice's stuff, publishers will let her go unedited. But I think her books have gone down in quality over the years, and I think her editor-free process is the likely culprit. My standard is purely subjective. And since I'm not forced to buy her books or read them, I'll just roll my eyes and spend my money on other books.
Nutty - Sep 21, 2004 8:44:13 am PDT #5941 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I think that's a reprint from something in the Magazine a couple of weeks ago. Anyway, I remember reading it and being like, "Bill has nearly given himself an aneurysm, stooping to discuss the ways that people under forty speak day-to-day."
The funny part of the article, for me, was realizing that rapp -izzle speak is no different from the idiotic sound-insertion "languages" girls make up to gossip with each other in the 6th grade.
Gus - Sep 21, 2004 8:48:43 am PDT #5942 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Consuela, the topic has been doing the usual Buffistas sine wave across a central theme. The theme was "cross-pollinations of genres", or at least it seemed that way to me. That specific cross-pollination -- GG meets Witches of Eastwick -- popped into my head as something that I should very much like to see done well. Then, I blurted.
Perhaps I should just go buy a Alice Hoffman novel and quietly read.
Consuela - Sep 21, 2004 8:52:11 am PDT #5943 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Ah. Well, you might want to stop by the fic thread and see if anyone picks up on it. Dana has been known to write Gilmore Girls (and quite well, too).
Daisy Jane - Sep 21, 2004 8:52:44 am PDT #5944 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
There is no editing of a finished painting.
As Nutty said, not so- there's even a fancy word for it, which I forget at the moment.
Fred Pete - Sep 21, 2004 8:54:34 am PDT #5945 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
The funny part of the article, for me, was realizing that rapp -izzle speak is no different from the idiotic sound-insertion "languages" girls make up to gossip with each other in the 6th grade.
But he deserves points for name-checking the uber-fun "Double Dutch Bus."
And even if -izzle entered the language as a goof, it's no worse than the story (likely untrue, but a good story of the origin of "quiz."