'Serenity'
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."
Well, Kirk Brandon is currently touring with his new band, Marco Perroni was last seen producing Sinead O'Connor....
Marco probably made enough money on that record for Sinead to retire. Not bad for an original Ant.
This has been number 1 in an occasional series called "jokes only Hec, Jon and possibly ita will get.
Heh. And yet when Jon was visiting the other night, we didn't speak in a secret code of insider references at all.
So you say.
All of them were good, but I think Uh, Honey, Whose Hat Is That? was my favorite.
Note to Stephen King fans: Big Steve will appear on The Daily Show tonight. Be sure to Tivo!
Also, although I do sorta hate to admit this after all the rude things I've said about her latest work, I became a big Laurell K. Hamilton fan when she published her some of her first stories in Marion Zimmer Bradley's "Sword and Sorceress" series. "Geese" and "Winterkill" were particularly good, and I still enjoy them. I was so pleased when she started publishing whole novels, back when Anita had her job on her mind. Somehow that was much more interesting than the current perpetual Naked Time Happy Hour.
Anyway, I went so far as to track down a bunch of LKH's early short stories and copied them for friends. I have extras. These days my goal is to clear my shelves and delete clutter. If anybody is interested, please let me know, and I will mail them to you instead of throwing them in the recycling. Profile addy is good. Use the words "Literary Buffistas" in the subject line and don't fear the spam bounce, and I'll be checking e again in a few days.
Actually, things-made-from books always upset me. I wind up thinking "But what if somebody wanted to READ that?"
Things made from books really disturb me. With very few exceptions, I think of books as sacred objects. There are a few books I think would have a higher calling as furniture, but a bedroom made entirely out of Ethan Frome is a pretty disturbing idea too.
I wouldn't mind a bedskirt made of "The Virgin Bride Said Wow".
Ginger, have you read Anne Fadiman's essay "Never Do That to a Book" in Ex Libris?
It speaks exactly to that issue and is also very funny. (courtly love vs. carnal love of books!)
I adore Ex Libris. Every book lover should read it.
Agreed. And thanks, Kristin, I'd forgotten the title--and I have it. ...Somewhere here.