hermionesviolin: photoshoot image of Michelle Trachtenberg (who plays Dawn in the tv show Buffy) looking seriously (angrily?) at the viewer, with bookshelves in the background (angry - books)
Elizabeth (the delinquent, ecumenical) ([personal profile] hermionesviolin) wrote2003-05-23 08:03 pm

Buffy and other miscellany

Have we all been following DorkTower? ‘cause snort-sob.

[livejournal.com profile] trijinx, he was drowning in footwear. [Overanalysts call this a Shanshu reference/pun. Someone not on my friends page had a really good post about how the Shanshu was totally Spike’s and not Angel’s; thanks to [livejournal.com profile] oyceter for reminding me that it was [livejournal.com profile] hecatehatesthat here. [livejournal.com profile] oyceter makes a neat analogy to Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry, btw.]

Can we please dump the Chicago Tribune in a river somewhere for their abominable choice in Buffy one-liners? And “Storyteller” makes a top 5 over any Season 2 episode? WHAT?!

My dad suspects the author exaggerates, but this article is interesting nonetheless.

The Fashionable Dictionary - amusing though depressingly familar

Um, does Anne Lamott want me to hate her? Because the first page accomplishes that (also makes me lose lots of respect for her) and the second page is an incredibly overextended metaphor which i didn’t really like even when it was just a metaphor on the first page.

[identity profile] hermionesviolin.livejournal.com 2003-05-23 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! Thank you. (I liked your bit about the Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry analogy, btw.)
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[personal profile] oyceter 2003-05-23 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure, no prob. And thanks! Wrote up a huge post on that on my own LJ because I felt so inspired... heh.