Author and Activist Susan Sontag Dies
I just said that you're pretty. Even when you're covered in...engine grease, you're... No, especially, especially when you're covered in engine grease.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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."
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.
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.
Betsy HP - Dec 28, 2004 5:02:33 pm PST #6734 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Could you explain it for me again? People explain it and explain it and I still can't hold on to the meaning. V. frustrating.