Oh, good book. It's got an awful lot in it, I'm not surprised you don't remember it all. Eco's dense.
Wesley: Feng Shui. Gunn: Right. What's that mean again? Wesley: That people will believe anything. Actually, in this place, Feng Shui will probably have enormous significance. I'll align my furniture the wrong way and suddenly catch fire or turn into a pudding.
'Conviction (1)'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
-t - Jul 13, 2009 2:57:09 pm PDT #16534 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Polter-Cow - Jul 13, 2009 3:00:38 pm PDT #16535 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Very dense! But I liked The Name of the Rose, for the most part. Foucault's Pendulum, on the other hand, could have stood to lose 200 pages or so.
Vortex - Jul 13, 2009 3:01:33 pm PDT #16536 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I love that book. Not the least because I was reading it on the train as I backpacked through Europe.
-t - Jul 13, 2009 3:16:44 pm PDT #16537 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That sounds so romantic and intellectual. I read it for a class.
Foucault's Pendulum, on the other hand, could have stood to lose 200 pages or so.
Nuh uh. Foucault's Pendulum is pretty much perfect. I am inordinately fond of Eco in general and Foucault is my favorite.
Hil R. - Jul 13, 2009 3:30:02 pm PDT #16538 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Longline strapless bra -- I've usually had the best luck for stuff like that at smaller local stores, rather than chains. They usually have a much better inventory and salespeople who really know what they're doing.
Laga - Jul 13, 2009 3:35:25 pm PDT #16539 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
omg Trader Joe's Ginger Senbei Snacks are The DEVIL! I cannot stop eating them.
omnis_audis - Jul 13, 2009 4:24:15 pm PDT #16540 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Erin, one of the cats names is flopsy. He finds a spot and tips over and sprawls out. When noise and power tools start going, he heads over to the corner of the shop. If ya show him some attention, he starts to purr, and demand more attention. And then at night, he becomes hunter!cat.
Trudy Booth - Jul 13, 2009 4:32:41 pm PDT #16541 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
How charming and sweet. And Danielle wrote a nice article, good on her.
Her career prospects are slim though -- she asked interesting questions and refused to give any plot-points away. There is only so much room for that in the interview biz.
That whole exchange was charming. Its probably a lot like what would happen if Jilli ended talking with Gerard Way at Comicon.
Hil R. - Jul 13, 2009 4:36:40 pm PDT #16542 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I exercised. And now I'm tired. The exercising part is fun, but the want-to-collapse part, not so much. (My weight plateaued at the place where it always plateaus, and I am determined to lose four more pounds before going to the beach in two weeks. Determination isn't helping much with math right now, but I figure that exercising is different -- I'm burning calories whether I get the moves right or not.)
Atropa - Jul 13, 2009 4:57:36 pm PDT #16543 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Awww, that was a darling interview. Dear Daniel Radcliffe, you seem to be turning into a Very Nice Guy.
That whole exchange was charming. Its probably a lot like what would happen if Jilli ended talking with Gerard Way at Comicon.
I like to think I'd be a little more articulate and less ZOMG! I'M TALKING TO ONE OF MY IDOLS about it. (Let me have my illusions, okay?)