No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?

Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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."


Steph L. - Jul 14, 2005 5:05:45 am PDT #8224 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism

From that silly interview about the eviltude of Harry Potter - is it true that there are Wiccan chaplains in the military? Somehow I'm having a hard time believing that.

I'm not sure that there are Wiccan or pagan chaplains (as in, that's the religion that the chaplain himself identifies with); however, there is a section about Wicca in the Army Chaplain's Manual.


Hil R. - Jul 14, 2005 5:12:31 am PDT #8225 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

is it true that there are Wiccan chaplains in the military? Somehow I'm having a hard time believing that.

A quick google is finding a few Wiccan prison chaplains, but no military ones yet. Most of the hits I'm getting are just that the military chaplains handbook recognizes Wicca as a religion, and a few hits on "The military lets the Wiccas do ... but they won't let the [fill in more mainstream religion here] do it."

t edit: semi-x-posty


Mr. Broom - Jul 14, 2005 6:42:21 am PDT #8226 of 10002
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor

I've got a friend who isn't a chaplain, but who leads a Wicca circle on an Air Force base (or did, for a decent stretch of time) as a civilian.


Dana - Jul 14, 2005 10:30:22 am PDT #8227 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Results of the Guardian's Kill off Dumbledore contest.


Vonnie K - Jul 14, 2005 10:36:43 am PDT #8228 of 10002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

These are fun! I adore William Carlos Williams version.


Jars - Jul 14, 2005 10:39:05 am PDT #8229 of 10002

I was just about to link to that Dana. Damn you.

I love the A.A. Milne one.


Anne W. - Jul 14, 2005 10:41:15 am PDT #8230 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

The Zork one is hilarious.


Jars - Jul 14, 2005 10:42:00 am PDT #8231 of 10002

The Sappho one is hysterical.


Polter-Cow - Jul 14, 2005 11:09:04 am PDT #8232 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Some of them (like the ones that've mentioned) are good, but most are fairly disappointing, I think. The Palahniuk one is all wrong. And I'm annoyed at all the misspellings and comma splices.


Kathy A - Jul 14, 2005 11:15:32 am PDT #8233 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I liked the Chaucer one:

So began the Dark Lorde's awfolle gloatyng,
And standarde baddeguy showéboatynge,
"But not todaye, you little shytte!
Payn's true meanynge, thou shalt wytte!"