It seems like there should be a different word for consensual performance-art trolling.
Inara: I think she looks adorable. Mal: Yeah, but I never said it.
'Shindig'
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."
DebetEsse - Mar 26, 2012 10:38:12 am PDT #18296 of 28574
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Tom Scola - Mar 27, 2012 5:49:08 am PDT #18297 of 28574
They pay me in WOIMS
Harry Potter ebooks available at pottermore.com: [link]
javachik - Mar 27, 2012 7:52:09 am PDT #18298 of 28574
Our wings are not tired.
FINALLY!!!!!!!!
Polter-Cow - Mar 27, 2012 7:54:42 am PDT #18299 of 28574
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Hee. My response was, "Somebody tell javachik!"
Tom Scola - Mar 27, 2012 10:08:55 am PDT #18300 of 28574
They pay me in WOIMS
You can't buy the UK versions in the US, for no apparent reason: [link]
Hil R. - Mar 28, 2012 2:56:34 pm PDT #18301 of 28574
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My father's reaction to Hunger Games (he's not finished yet -- he just got past the banquet): "These are really hard books to read. It just grabs your emotions and doesn't let go. I mean, in the Harry Potter books, characters died, but this is just kids killing kids, relentlessly." I don't think I've ever seen him react to a book like that before. I told him that the other two are even more so, and he said that he's not sure if he's going to read those, in that case.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 28, 2012 4:03:40 pm PDT #18302 of 28574
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.
That's one of the big reasons I've had no interest in reading them - not the sort of horror I like in my escapist fiction.
erikaj - Mar 28, 2012 5:04:03 pm PDT #18303 of 28574
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I read the first one...it was well-crafted but too much, somehow.
Consuela - Mar 29, 2012 7:23:22 am PDT #18304 of 28574
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Best author rant ever:
A guy who was not nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award goes off on the writers who were: [link]
Charlie Stross is running with it, and has even made t-shirts.
Jessica - Mar 29, 2012 7:26:43 am PDT #18305 of 28574
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I have to say, this description of Stross as a writer had me cracking up:
Stross writes like an internet puppy: energetically, egotistically, sometimes amusingly, sometimes affectingly, but always irritatingly, and goes on being energetic and egotistical and amusing for far too long. You wait nervously for the unattractive exhaustion which will lead to a piss-soaked carpet.