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Birthday Greetings
Jul. 26th, 2015 09:39 amHappy birthday to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mrissa today. may you have a really good one.
mrissa today. may you have a really good one. Jul. 26th, 2015
Rainy Days
Jul. 26th, 2015 09:49 amYesterday was dry , and occasionally sunny and today, overcast again with the forecast of more rain. At least i am not working till tomorrow when , alas, more rain is forecast.
So with that in mind , here is one of my secret guilty pleasures, eh , on, and no longer a secret, damn it!
Carpenters - Rainy Days And Mondays
Enjoy.
So with that in mind , here is one of my secret guilty pleasures, eh , on, and no longer a secret, damn it!
Carpenters - Rainy Days And Mondays
Enjoy.
Rhonda Wilcox "Why Buffy Matters" (I.B Tauris)
This is a splendid read for Buffy fans who sense deeper meanings to the stories in the Buffiverse but tend to get strange looks from their educated friends . . including those friends who says it is an obsession of mine. So be it.
Wilcox is one of the founders of Slayage, an online academic journal dedicated to Buffy Studies, and this is a collection of essays mainly based on the many papers she has given at conferences around the world. I am struck by the clarity of her insights and the positively poetic, sensitive and often wryly humorous way in which she reads the Vampire Slayer and her universe. It is this aspect of Wilcox's writing in this volume that gives the book such wide appeal.
Given that the book is a collection of different conference papers and essays, and was not originally conceived as a book, it hangs together as a narrative remarkably well, and makes a good job of tackling the entire series and all its major characters.
However, sometimes, Wilcox's analogies can seem a little stretched - e.g she seems to be intent on equating Buffy with Dickens, especially Esther Summerson, which I think is a bit tenuous, but her theories are always intriguing. For example the connection between Spike and light is something I now see when I watch the episodes back but didn't really clock at the time.
Overall, not only an important contribution to the literature and extremely interesting read, but a fun one too! An engagingly written book which i highly recommend.
This is a splendid read for Buffy fans who sense deeper meanings to the stories in the Buffiverse but tend to get strange looks from their educated friends . . including those friends who says it is an obsession of mine. So be it.
Wilcox is one of the founders of Slayage, an online academic journal dedicated to Buffy Studies, and this is a collection of essays mainly based on the many papers she has given at conferences around the world. I am struck by the clarity of her insights and the positively poetic, sensitive and often wryly humorous way in which she reads the Vampire Slayer and her universe. It is this aspect of Wilcox's writing in this volume that gives the book such wide appeal.
Given that the book is a collection of different conference papers and essays, and was not originally conceived as a book, it hangs together as a narrative remarkably well, and makes a good job of tackling the entire series and all its major characters.
However, sometimes, Wilcox's analogies can seem a little stretched - e.g she seems to be intent on equating Buffy with Dickens, especially Esther Summerson, which I think is a bit tenuous, but her theories are always intriguing. For example the connection between Spike and light is something I now see when I watch the episodes back but didn't really clock at the time.
Overall, not only an important contribution to the literature and extremely interesting read, but a fun one too! An engagingly written book which i highly recommend.
I have been waiting for this review of one of the worst episodes in Buffy season 2 from the The Passion Of The Nerd. Totally agree about this one being a bummer before the excellent two closers of the season, Becoming Parts 1 & 2.
Anyway here it is - Go Fish -
Anyway here it is - Go Fish -
Five By Five
Jul. 26th, 2015 08:15 pmAnd now for a montage of that bad hot horny rogue Slayer known as Faith Lehane , a true femme fatale in the film noir sense.
Yep, she rides them like a biker, five bu five.
Eliza you rock!!
Yep, she rides them like a biker, five bu five.
Eliza you rock!!
Not quite the Satanic verses but i thought that as a barbwire against a Judo-Christian patriarchy this statue gets my thumbs up.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/26/satanic-temple-sculpture-detroit-oklahoma
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/26/satanic-temple-sculpture-detroit-oklahoma
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