Mix omens with the auguries that dare to plant the Cross upon your forehead sky
Was the entire Sookie Stackhouse series inspired by an episode of Buffy? There was an episode of Buffy called Earshot where Buffy became telepathic. She tried to read Angel's mind and he said it wasn't possible because of a stupid reason having to do with mirrors and whatever. It was a dumb throwaway line. But Earshot aired March 23, 1999, and the first Sookie Stackhouse novel was published in 2001. I know Charlaine Harris has seen Buffy because she references it in Dead to the World.
I have many theories. For instance, I have always wondered if misogynist and 98lb weakling John Norman's rape-revenge fantasy/hate crime disguised as a series of unbelievably boring fantasy novels set in a world called Gor, was inspired by Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series. And there's a scene in Stephen King's Bag of Bones that is very similar to a scene in Owen Meany, which I know King read because the paperback copy of Owen Meany I read had his endorsement on the cover.
I need something good to read. Has literature gotten over its obsession with the present tense? Will somebody check and report back? Until such time, I require some lowbrow urban fantasy, or a good YA novel. I recently read the first two Hunger Games novels and am looking forward to the third, although I was in a similar position with respect to Kelley Armstrong's Chloe Saunders novels and ended up being very disappointed by the ending.
Ok .... so stuff I've watched recently that I've loved. Well, Treme. I've watched all the stuff this production team has done and I really admire their work. Khandi Alexander's character Ladonna is one of the best female characters I've ever seen on TV. I love her because she doesn't pussyfoot around waiting for people to like her. There's a paradigm where female TV protagonists have to be likable, and being likable requires that they be simpering doormats who immediately hand credit for their accomplishments to the man standing next to them. And for some perplexing reason they always have to be clumsy. I don't know why - unless it's to further emphasise how completely inconsequential they are, and incapable of enterprises of great pitch and moment.
The fact that Steven Spielberg is directing a 3D Tintin is like a joke that is designed just to amuse me.
I have many theories. For instance, I have always wondered if misogynist and 98lb weakling John Norman's rape-revenge fantasy/hate crime disguised as a series of unbelievably boring fantasy novels set in a world called Gor, was inspired by Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series. And there's a scene in Stephen King's Bag of Bones that is very similar to a scene in Owen Meany, which I know King read because the paperback copy of Owen Meany I read had his endorsement on the cover.
I need something good to read. Has literature gotten over its obsession with the present tense? Will somebody check and report back? Until such time, I require some lowbrow urban fantasy, or a good YA novel. I recently read the first two Hunger Games novels and am looking forward to the third, although I was in a similar position with respect to Kelley Armstrong's Chloe Saunders novels and ended up being very disappointed by the ending.
Ok .... so stuff I've watched recently that I've loved. Well, Treme. I've watched all the stuff this production team has done and I really admire their work. Khandi Alexander's character Ladonna is one of the best female characters I've ever seen on TV. I love her because she doesn't pussyfoot around waiting for people to like her. There's a paradigm where female TV protagonists have to be likable, and being likable requires that they be simpering doormats who immediately hand credit for their accomplishments to the man standing next to them. And for some perplexing reason they always have to be clumsy. I don't know why - unless it's to further emphasise how completely inconsequential they are, and incapable of enterprises of great pitch and moment.
The fact that Steven Spielberg is directing a 3D Tintin is like a joke that is designed just to amuse me.