Shh! I kinda wanna hear me talking right now!

Glory ,'The Killer In Me'


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 - Dec 28, 2004 7:55:36 am PST #6724 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I read Biohazard on the plane last night. It's a nonfiction book by a former Soviet bioweapons scientist named Ken Alibek (actually Kan Alibekov), who was possibly the highest-ranking Kazakh in the Soviet military. Anyway, he defected to the US in about 92 and wrote this fascinating history of his involvement with the Soviet bioweapons industry and his experience with it. What I found most interesting is that the USSR was absolutely convinced the US had an ongoing bioweapons program, and their program was intended to counter ours. Alibek finally left when he became convinced that this was untrue, after a tour of US sites in 1991.

It's an easy read -- I read the whole thing on the plane last night -- and rather unsettling, because Alibek isn't convinced the threat of bioweapons is gone even if the Soviet union is. Fascinating stuff.


victor infante - Dec 28, 2004 8:36:47 am PST #6725 of 10002
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.

Author and Activist Susan Sontag Dies


Consuela - Dec 28, 2004 9:05:37 am PST #6726 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Holy cow.


Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 28, 2004 11:25:49 am PST #6727 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Wow, that's a blow to the literary world.


Angus G - Dec 28, 2004 2:38:48 pm PST #6728 of 10002
Roguish Laird

Very sad news. That obituary is very strange though--the precis of Notes on Camp is dreadful, and as for 'In conversation, she comfortably used words such as "polyphonic" and "surreptitiously."'--um, who doesn't?


Betsy HP - Dec 28, 2004 2:56:08 pm PST #6729 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

I haven't gotten a lot of use out of "dramaturg" recently.


reequeen - Dec 28, 2004 3:22:07 pm PST #6730 of 10002
"It's got to be the hair, Cotton. It's beautiful! Feathered and lethal. You just don't see it nowadays." Pepper Brooks - Dodgeball

I don't know that there's actually a need to use "polyphonic" when speaking, but "surreptitiously?" C'mon. Not big on "dramaturg" but I do like "anthropomorphize."


Betsy HP - Dec 28, 2004 4:13:15 pm PST #6731 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

Well, if you're talking about music, "polyphonic" is pretty essential. Heck, I think it's on the label of the cheap keyboard I bought my son for Christmas.

I like "apotropaic" although I can never remember what it means. It just trips down the tongue and does a full somersault.


reequeen - Dec 28, 2004 4:28:24 pm PST #6732 of 10002
"It's got to be the hair, Cotton. It's beautiful! Feathered and lethal. You just don't see it nowadays." Pepper Brooks - Dodgeball

Yeah, well, when I talk about music, I tend to use words like "groovy" and "cool." I'm sure that ages me, but oh well.....


Scrappy - Dec 28, 2004 4:47:39 pm PST #6733 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

My BF used to BE a dramaturg, so that word does come up.