Ruined by Reading is good.
All right, no one's killing folk today, on account of our very tight schedule.
Mal ,'Trash'
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 - Dec 14, 2004 4:06:12 am PST #6586 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Steph L. - Dec 14, 2004 6:59:35 am PST #6587 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
McSweeney's is launching the Believer's Book Series, which are collections of essays from The Believer. The first is Nick Hornsby's The Polysyllabic Spree.
JohnSweden - Dec 14, 2004 7:18:58 am PST #6588 of 10002
I can't even.
Nick Hornby is the everloving bomb. Fever Pitch made so much of my life make sense to me and will help obsessives anywhere, even Spuffists. In fact, it reminds me that Spike's sole actual redeeming feature was that he was a Man U fan.
§ ita § - Dec 14, 2004 7:20:35 am PST #6589 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And his coat. I'd redeem him for the coat.
JohnSweden - Dec 14, 2004 7:54:56 am PST #6590 of 10002
I can't even.
And his coat. I'd redeem him for the coat.
Which was looted from a corpse, that is, someone else's coat. You could always make him take it off before dustbusterizing him.
Hornby is an Arsenal fan, proving that he is in fact, a sad, sad bastard. However, the manner in which he shares his misery is illuminating and almost validates his miserable existance.
§ ita § - Dec 14, 2004 7:55:43 am PST #6591 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Which was looted from a corpse, that is, someone else's coat.
Don't think the trophy nature doesn't enhance it.
P.M. Marc - Dec 14, 2004 7:56:15 am PST #6592 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
Hornby is an Arsenal fan, proving that he is in fact, a sad, sad bastard.
It took me a minute to realize you were talking about sports, not about Roy Harper.
JohnSweden - Dec 14, 2004 8:01:00 am PST #6593 of 10002
I can't even.
Don't think the trophy nature doesn't enhance it.
Especially since it is a ::magic coat:: that fits all comers. Handy that.
It took me a minute to realize you were talking about sports, not about Roy Harper.
Hee. I have no idea who Roy Harper is, so I think we're all square.
Alicia K - Dec 14, 2004 8:44:20 am PST #6594 of 10002
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
Typo Boy, I'm glad I'm not alone in the "don't get the 'Get Fuzzy' love" camp.
Holli - Dec 14, 2004 9:48:26 am PST #6595 of 10002
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
It took me a minute to realize you were talking about sports, not about Roy Harper.
It took me until you said this to realize he wasn't talking about Roy Harper.