Comments | nedlum: Woah. This is *three* in three weeks. Step back, y'alls.

nedlum

Woah. This is three in three weeks. Step back, y'alls.

Aug 03, 2005 23:30

A brief précis: today, I bought a copy of Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry "Writes more than Douglas Adams" Pratchett. It arrived at the Other Tiger at the perfect time: the day after I finished Catcher in the Rye. I decided that I wasn't allowed to start the book until I do some writing. Either a Livejournal post (as clearly I'm not doing ( Read more... )

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butterboy August 3 2005, 22:22:09 UTC

So, what you're saying is that The Apartment, a singularly brilliant work by a cinematic genius, is only worth "That is also the way it crumbles, cookiewise" in your LJ? For shame.

And also, is paraphrasing that guy who spoke at Williams and said "What Will was saying--and I call him Will, because we' tight"--counting as a Shakespeare quote here? =D I know all your tricks!

nedlum August 4 2005, 07:02:23 UTC

Nope. Mr. White is a funny, funny man, but Shakespeare he is not. Keep searching. A hint: two are back-to-back.

As for the Apartment, this post was planned to be talking about books before I even got my laptop turned on, so Billy Wilder can consider himself lucky he got into this post at all. If he wants an actual post devoted to him, he's going to have to wait his turn like everybody else.

butterboy August 4 2005, 07:11:59 UTC

Umm...no. It was a black 30-something writer (a friend of Mr. Kelly's?) who did an assembly in the gym. Not sure what it was about--I think he was talking abould Lear at the time. And I remember Kate Milke making fun of underclassmen who weren't paying attention or something, so it wasn't senior year. Maybe junior. I don't know. But that's not what I was talking about. But yeah.