Excellent, clear, concise recap of the whole stinking mess: [link]
Holy shit that's a mess!
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'
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 - Dec 28, 2019 6:37:54 pm PST #25583 of 28370
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DXMachina - Dec 29, 2019 4:22:41 am PST #25584 of 28370
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Wait, so a big chunk of the board of directors quit, and the president-elect that apparently turned the ethics complaint into a kangaroo court immediately becomes president AND gets to name replacement board members?
That was my take away, too. WTF?!?
Dana - Dec 29, 2019 6:59:36 am PST #25585 of 28370
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Amy - Dec 29, 2019 9:28:03 am PST #25586 of 28370
Because books.
Nomad Velour is just everything.
amyparker - Dec 29, 2019 7:27:24 pm PST #25587 of 28370
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
. . . and now they're trying to invalidate the recall petition on procedural grounds? I'm going to have to go to Costco tomorrow, there's not enough popcorn on this island.
amyparker - Dec 29, 2019 8:39:43 pm PST #25588 of 28370
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
In the course of cleaning up computer files, my friend Sara found that she had e-books of Nomad Velour's firefighter porn. (In her defense she bought them 10 years ago and it wasn't for the deathless prose, but even by those standards - wow.)
Dana - Dec 30, 2019 5:33:48 pm PST #25589 of 28370
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Dude apparently ran unopposed for president because he manipulated the other candidate into dropping out:
amyparker - Dec 30, 2019 6:43:29 pm PST #25590 of 28370
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
How does it keep getting worse?!?
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 31, 2019 7:21:59 am PST #25591 of 28370
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
At this point I'm waiting for him to peel off a mask and reveal it was Kevin Spacey the whole time.
sj - Dec 31, 2019 7:28:13 am PST #25592 of 28370
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I feel like you would have to actively try to handle things this badly.