Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.

Lilah ,'Destiny'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

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."


Sophia Brooks - Mar 05, 2010 2:29:43 pm PST #11096 of 28769
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I saw bits and pieces of a tape of a Taming of the Shrew with Raul Jualia and Meryl Streep that I really liked. She was amazingly good at physical comedy.


juliana - Mar 05, 2010 2:32:47 pm PST #11097 of 28769
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

Oh, and Moonlighting did a Shrew parody. In which Bruce Willis sang and played the harmonica. @@


Amy - Mar 05, 2010 3:07:41 pm PST #11098 of 28769
Because books.

Did anyone mention Sarah Smith's Chasing Shakespeare ? Excellent book.

Even in nonfiction, you have books like Reviving Ophelia.

Also an album called Finding Ophelia by Jinny Kim, which I may have to buy.


Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 05, 2010 5:40:26 pm PST #11099 of 28769
You have to remember that being a 5-time Olympic medalist means Hilary Knight has been playing hockey at an elite level at least 16 years. It's impossible for her to be a teenage girl less than 16 years old, thus the President's complete lack of interest.

Prospero's Books and John Cassavetes' Tempest were both well-made, interesting films inspired by Shakespeare.

Amanda Bynes' She's the Man was not.


Kat - Mar 05, 2010 6:25:21 pm PST #11100 of 28769
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Christopher Moore's book, Fool.

I had a running list of things that are almost perfectly Shakespearean, without really being a direct spinoff. For example, I Love Lucy is so much like Merry Wives of Windsor in many respects.


Strix - Mar 05, 2010 6:52:27 pm PST #11101 of 28769
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

"Romiette and Julio" by Sharon Draper. A pretty popular YA book that modernized the story, but the plot is different Romiette is African-American, Julio is Chicano.


Pix - Mar 05, 2010 6:53:41 pm PST #11102 of 28769
The status is NOT quo.

Lots of Shakespeare in Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff. Still one of my favorite books.


Barb - Mar 05, 2010 7:18:40 pm PST #11103 of 28769
“Not dead yet!”

Oh, and Romeo and Julie. Women's fic novel with the lead characters in their late fifties/early sixties. It was their children who were against the match.


Consuela - Mar 05, 2010 7:31:42 pm PST #11104 of 28769
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Lots of Shakespeare in Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff. Still one of my favorite books.

Man, I love that book. Haven't read it in years; I'm afraid it won't hold up. I think it's a bit id-vortexy for me. It's all wrapped up with college for me, cause I went to Cornell for 3 semesters and knew a bunch of people who lived in Risley. It was a whole thing there, about the college experience I didn't have.


sumi - Mar 06, 2010 8:58:31 am PST #11105 of 28769
Art Crawl!!!

Hey, the Hamlet in Croation speech from er.

(If it hasn't been mentioned.)