And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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."


DavidS - Feb 01, 2007 10:30:22 am PST #1912 of 28461
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Underlining is for squares.

::nods in approval and makes L7 with fingers::


erikaj - Feb 01, 2007 10:33:50 am PST #1913 of 28461
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

Oh, like that hasn't been a lifelong pursuit of yours, Hec. But I don't remember the last time I underlined anything, even if I'm not cool.


flea - Feb 01, 2007 10:59:09 am PST #1914 of 28461
information libertarian

I am wrestling (like, molasses-wrestling, not fun at all) with style guides today, and y'all are making me weep.

Going home now. APA and MLA can BITE ME.


Aims - Feb 01, 2007 10:59:52 am PST #1915 of 28461
Shit's all sorts of different now.

APA and MLA can BITE ME

Amen to that shite. APA is the format I have to use on EVERYTHING for the next three years.


Hil R. - Feb 01, 2007 5:01:52 pm PST #1916 of 28461
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Is there any style guide that uses both italics and underlining, for two different things? I can't recall ever learning any.


sumi - Feb 01, 2007 6:17:20 pm PST #1917 of 28461
Art Crawl!!!

If you can't do italics - you underline. That's what I learned from back in the day of typewriters.


Nutty - Feb 01, 2007 6:21:01 pm PST #1918 of 28461
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Right. MLA is just wicked old-fashioned. (Although possibly not any more, as they are revising for a 2008 publication date.)


Anne W. - Feb 02, 2007 2:09:19 am PST #1919 of 28461
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Re. Harry Potter, I'm not sure what I'm looking forward to more: finding out how it ends or watching fandom reactions to how things end.


Kathy A - Feb 02, 2007 6:48:35 am PST #1920 of 28461
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

That's right! It'll be interesting to see some fans' heads explode. Like the Harry-Hermione 'shippers who retreated to their own personal bubble after HBP and refused to acknowledge what JKR wrote.


Atropa - Feb 02, 2007 11:24:52 am PST #1921 of 28461
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Re. Harry Potter, I'm not sure what I'm looking forward to more: finding out how it ends or watching fandom reactions to how things end.

I know! Because no matter what happens in the final book, there will be some portion of fandom that flips right out.