Spike: Heard what happened up top, offing your dad and all. Don't know if you know this, but, uh…I killed my mum. Actually, I'd already killed her, and then she tried to shag me, so I had to-- Wesley: Thank you. I'm…very comforted.

'Lineage'


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."


-t - May 10, 2013 5:45:12 am PDT #20788 of 28476
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I feel like there's a significant different between eleven-year-olds who picking up Sandman on their own, and giving a copy to them. But I don't really have an opinion as to appropriateness.


erikaj - May 10, 2013 5:52:27 am PDT #20789 of 28476
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

I would definitely not stop a kid from reading what they like. But, yeah, I could see handing it out is sort of an endorsement. Or at least leaves you open in a "Where did you get THAT?" conversation.


sj - May 10, 2013 5:55:09 am PDT #20790 of 28476
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I feel like there's a significant different between eleven-year-olds who picking up Sandman on their own, and giving a copy to them. But I don't really have an opinion as to appropriateness.

I agree with this completely. My mother still worried about what movies I saw and TV I was watching at 11, but I pretty much read whatever I wanted.


JZ - May 10, 2013 9:00:29 am PDT #20791 of 28476
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Thanks, JZ. Glad you like them.

Not blowing smoke up your ass, either. I wish that people with more money than us would notice your work and pounce on it, because it's seriously fucking good, tight storytelling.


erikaj - May 10, 2013 9:22:45 am PDT #20792 of 28476
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

I wish that, too. I keep thinking I get my big break, when really? Not so much. Homicide rule 5"It's good to be good. It's better to be lucky." I'm not that lucky.(Although I was hoping to get reviewed as a "promising newcomer" or something...I have to admit, I'm a little disappointed about that.)


erikaj - May 10, 2013 9:37:51 am PDT #20793 of 28476
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

I feel like I should say that I don't really write FOR the money, and that I don't really give much of a shit about money in and of itself. But artistic pride does not buy vacations or chocolate strawberries, and I wish I had more of those.(And there are far too many talented people in my "community" being steered toward eternal hobbyism, rather than finding out what their talents can be "worth" and I refuse to do that. Again, anyway.) Like it or not, paychecks speak, and since I have to give up on street cred being from the wrong part of Glendale for the hip-hop/Ranchera album, I do what I can.


Anne W. - May 11, 2013 3:50:22 am PDT #20794 of 28476
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Don't Make Fun of Dan Brown


Jessica - May 11, 2013 4:07:40 am PDT #20795 of 28476
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Don't Make Fun of Dan Brown

LOVE.


JZ - May 11, 2013 4:30:31 am PDT #20796 of 28476
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

The voice at the other end of the line gave a sigh, like a mighty oak toppling into a great river, or something else that didn’t sound like a sigh if you gave it a moment’s thought.

::dies::


Scrappy - May 11, 2013 5:44:49 am PDT #20797 of 28476
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Renowned author Dan Brown gazed admiringly at the pulchritudinous brunette’s blonde tresses, flowing from her head like a stream but made from hair instead of water and without any fish in.

I want to marry this reviewer.