This is the sort of thing that makes me feel old. I knew Bob back in the Yang the Nauseating days. This is like the sixth recent death of people I knew in my early con-going days.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
Ginger - May 23, 2008 6:22:23 am PDT #5878 of 28476
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Polter-Cow - May 23, 2008 8:34:47 am PDT #5879 of 28476
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
William Carlos Williams fans will appreciate today's Wondermark.
Steph L. - May 23, 2008 1:43:22 pm PDT #5880 of 28476
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
::snerk:: The mouseover text for the browser title bar (or tab, if you're browsing like me, and you should be) made me snerk even harder.
Polter-Cow - May 23, 2008 1:48:26 pm PDT #5881 of 28476
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The title of the comic? Yeah, hee. Did you read the alt-text?
Laga - May 23, 2008 2:20:00 pm PDT #5882 of 28476
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I left early for work today to stop by the library and then completely forgot to do so.
Steph L. - May 23, 2008 3:17:33 pm PDT #5883 of 28476
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Did you read the alt-text?
But of course!
Laga - May 24, 2008 6:11:41 pm PDT #5884 of 28476
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I've got Poisonwood Bible. huh, she just used "irregardless". I wonder if it was a purposeful insight into that particular narrator.
hippocampus - May 25, 2008 1:41:29 am PDT #5885 of 28476
not your mom's socks.
Laga, I'm pretty sure the answer is yes.
Jesse - May 25, 2008 4:55:40 pm PDT #5886 of 28476
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Here is how much of a nerd I am: I kind of want the Barrayaran Military Academy t-shirt available here: [link]
Jessica - May 25, 2008 5:01:31 pm PDT #5887 of 28476
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ooh! I want ALL of them!