Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.

Buffy ,'Sleeper'


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. - Jan 17, 2006 8:17:57 am PST #9816 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Is Anita supposed to be partly Hispanic? For some reason I keep thinking that she is. If so, I'm picturing Girlfight girl who's on Lost now.


Betsy HP - Jan 17, 2006 8:20:03 am PST #9817 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

Yes, Anita's Hispanic.


Kathy A - Jan 17, 2006 8:22:34 am PST #9818 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Book purchase news--I went to Borders last night and finally used the 10% off coupon and gift card that my boss gave me for Xmas. I got two Jasper Fforde books, the second Tuesday Next novel (I've had The Eyre Affair for years even though I have yet to read it) and The Big Over Easy, the first in the Jack Spratt Investigates series (according to the review I read in EW, it's a cross between Film Noir and nursery rhymes). Looking forward to reading them both!


Calli - Jan 17, 2006 8:30:19 am PST #9819 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

You know, it occurred to me that, for all her writerly faults, LKH created a world that stuck with me. I was watching the weather channel this morning and they talked about St. Louis and the first thing that came to mind was the Anita Blake books.


Calli - Jan 17, 2006 11:11:34 am PST #9820 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Consuela - Jan 17, 2006 3:04:55 pm PST #9821 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I'm thinking of Eliza Dushku or Jessica Alba for Anita. Dark and attractive to the geekly audience, and both experienced with the ass-kicking.


Strix - Jan 17, 2006 3:07:41 pm PST #9822 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Suela, d'oh! I cannot imagine why Eliza never crossed my mind! I think she'd be great.


erikaj - Jan 17, 2006 5:29:00 pm PST #9823 of 10002
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal

That would be cool. Really cool, not marketing-cool.


Connie Neil - Jan 17, 2006 7:27:13 pm PST #9824 of 10002
brillig

Eliza might work, but Anita turns into such a twit that I wouldn't wish the part on her.


Kate P. - Jan 18, 2006 8:10:47 am PST #9825 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

The Big Over Easy, the first in the Jack Spratt Investigates series (according to the review I read in EW, it's a cross between Film Noir and nursery rhymes).

Oh cool, I hadn't heard of that one. Although I have to say I lost interest in the Tuesday Next books about 3 books in, but if the first book or two of the new series are as good as the first couple TN books, I'll give them a shot.