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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."

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justkim - Feb 11, 2004 5:35:12 am PST #757 of 10002

Another social casualty...

Steph, I rememberd something being mentioned on Gaiman's blog awhile back, so I did a search. Turns out that all the links that mention the story are dead (this was from back in September 2002).

I did find this one tiny little blurb:

Crime Imitates Art

One of the most successful passages in Neil Gaiman's 2001 novel American Gods describes the MO of a conman who stages a fake payroll drop. According to Canada.com, a literate crook in Canada took note, cleaning out 48 businesses in a Winnipeg shopping center.

The link to Canada.com is dead.

Wolfram - Feb 11, 2004 5:56:26 am PST #758 of 10002

Visilurking

I remember thinking that was a really clever scam. But that's as far as it went. Honest.

Steph L. - Feb 11, 2004 8:26:12 am PST #759 of 10002

Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Okay, not so much a brouhaha as a ha. At least I remembered correctly.

Micole - Feb 11, 2004 8:51:07 am PST #760 of 10002

I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.

Thank you, David! It was a very pleasant birthday, involving lots of food and ending with obscene puppets.

Consuela - Feb 11, 2004 8:52:13 am PST #761 of 10002

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Micole, you are going to do a writeup about the puppets, right?

(One of the several reasons I have in mind for going to NYC for a weekend at some point this year is to see this play.)

(Yes, I'm shallow. Deal with it.)

Jesse - Feb 11, 2004 8:52:51 am PST #762 of 10002

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Avenue Q is totally worth the trip. So. Fucking. Funny.

Micole - Feb 11, 2004 8:59:20 am PST #763 of 10002

I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.

I started the play writeup this morning, but had to leave for work. Tonight, maybe.

DavidS - Feb 11, 2004 9:04:08 am PST #764 of 10002

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Thank you, David! It was a very pleasant birthday, involving lots of food and ending with obscene puppets.

Excellent! I have a co-write on the song "Punk Rock Puppet" incidentally, which involves the lewd lyric (based on the old Pinnochio joke), "Sit on my face and I'll tell you lies."

Atropa - Feb 11, 2004 10:11:50 am PST #765 of 10002

The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I'm currently about halfway through Spirits in the Wires by Charles de Lint, and I'm kind of "eh" about finishing it. I mean, I will finish reading it, but it just isn't holding my attention. I can't shake the feeling that he's telling the same story he's told before, but with a different selection of the Newford characters; it also feels like the entire book was "phoned in".

I'm starting to suspect I prefer his short fiction. The last novel of his I really really liked was Someplace to be Flying, and that's because I adore the Crow Girls.

Consuela - Feb 11, 2004 10:28:04 am PST #766 of 10002

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Wordy McWord, Jilli. That's pretty much how I've felt about all of his stuff since Flying, too. I've stopped reading his new stuff, although I enjoyed rereading Moonheart a few years back.

Was Trader after Flying? I liked that one pretty much.

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