You both know that's a Photoshopped parody, right?
Oh yeah... after Susan posted the link to that legitimate cover vote, I went back and found the spoof cover website we'd laughed about way back when. Lord of the Hissyfit and so forth...
I already know what I'm gonna call her. Got a name all picked out...
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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."
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 22, 2005 8:58:21 pm PST #7299 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
Brynn - Mar 23, 2005 3:29:28 pm PST #7300 of 10002
"I'd rather discuss the permutations of swordplay, with an undertone of definite allusion to sex." Beverly, offering an example of when your characters give you 'tude.
*pops in* Have a literary/nattery type question: "The love that dare not speaketh its name"... Is that Oscar Wilde, and does anyone know from where it originates?
Ginger - Mar 23, 2005 3:32:23 pm PST #7301 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
"The love that dare not speak its name" was a phrase used in Oscar Wilde's trial for homosexuality. I suspect it has an earlier origin.
Brynn - Mar 23, 2005 3:35:17 pm PST #7302 of 10002
"I'd rather discuss the permutations of swordplay, with an undertone of definite allusion to sex." Beverly, offering an example of when your characters give you 'tude.
Well, I that phrasing sounds sort of biblical... Or at least like a paraphrasing from the Bible. Maybe I will try to Google Scholar it. Now that it's confirmed Oscar, I should be able to nail it down. Thank you.
Ginger - Mar 23, 2005 3:35:53 pm PST #7303 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Here's a reference -- [link]
Brynn - Mar 23, 2005 3:41:42 pm PST #7304 of 10002
"I'd rather discuss the permutations of swordplay, with an undertone of definite allusion to sex." Beverly, offering an example of when your characters give you 'tude.
Ginger: Thank you. You're a lifesaver. In the saving me from academic death way I mean--not in the delicious *especially when red* candy way. Though, I suppose, you could be both?
JZ - Mar 23, 2005 3:58:03 pm PST #7305 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Brynn, did you see my post in Natter? The actual source (surprised the hell out of me -- I could've sworn it was Wilde himself) was his lover Bosie Douglas.
Almare - Mar 23, 2005 4:04:55 pm PST #7306 of 10002
"My drink preference does not indicate my sexual preference. "
So could I. In fact I think I did.
sighs
And I call myself a rabid fan...
Also, who's read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell? Anybody?
sumi - Mar 23, 2005 4:32:05 pm PST #7307 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
I have.
I took out Sharyn McCrumb's Saint Dale yesterday. It's like the Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, except that instead of Canterbury it's about a pilgrimmage to sites of interest in the life of Dale Earnhardt.
So, I was thinking about Sharyn McCrumb while walking to work this morning and I've realized that her Elizabeth MacPherson mysteries really remind me alot of old Scooby Doo cartoons.
sj - Mar 23, 2005 4:39:09 pm PST #7308 of 10002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
l just started reading it, Almare, but I haven't gotten very far yet.