Found this tidbit over at the sciffy site:
An original drawing of A.A. Milne's popular children's characters Winnie-the-Pooh, Tigger and Piglet fetched 31,200 pounds ($50,000) at auction on Nov. 4 in London, the Reuters news service reported.
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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."
sumi - Nov 05, 2008 10:59:09 am PST #7871 of 28706
Art Crawl!!!
Fay - Nov 05, 2008 10:16:42 pm PST #7872 of 28706
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
OMG, I love E H Shepherd's illustrations!
The one with Piglet and the little rag of the balloon made me cry. I mean, last time I saw it, a few years ago, it made me cry. Gah. It's like Larkin's poem As Bad As A Mile for crystaiising that particular sense of piteous failure in a few quick strokes of the pen.
Toddson - Nov 06, 2008 4:00:13 am PST #7873 of 28706
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Speaking of a few quick strokes of the pen (couldn't resist), have you seen this?
Ginger - Nov 06, 2008 4:10:10 am PST #7874 of 28706
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I've somehow missed whether there's a name for a male Mary Sue. I'm thinking of the sort of character who's a doctor who lands a commercial airplane in an emergency; finds food and water in the wilderness; makes an electric generator with spare parts; is true to his one true love while being hit on by everyone woman he meets; and has steely gray eyes and a determined chin.
Toddson - Nov 06, 2008 4:13:33 am PST #7875 of 28706
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Marty Sue
Barb - Nov 06, 2008 4:14:57 am PST #7876 of 28706
“Not dead yet!”
Alpha male. (in current romance parlance... sorry, couldn't help myself.)
Jessica - Nov 06, 2008 4:15:43 am PST #7877 of 28706
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Jack?
amych - Nov 06, 2008 4:17:32 am PST #7878 of 28706
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Jack?
Snerk.
Ginger - Nov 06, 2008 4:20:18 am PST #7879 of 28706
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Jack definitely is one, whatever one is.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 06, 2008 4:40:02 am PST #7880 of 28706
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I've somehow missed whether there's a name for a male Mary Sue. I'm thinking of the sort of character who's a doctor who lands a commercial airplane in an emergency; finds food and water in the wilderness; makes an electric generator with spare parts; is true to his one true love while being hit on by everyone woman he meets; and has steely gray eyes and a determined chin.
MacGyver.