Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, laodicean, religion, spelling bee, wordplay on May 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Well, perhaps musings re: “Laodicean”, since neither meaning of the word applies to me.
I have to congratulate 13-year-old Kavya Shivashankar for winning this, especially with an obscure word that I didn’t know the meaning of until I was into my 20s.
The word in question makes me wonder, though, about the inclusion of such a very [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, coldplay, edward cullen, new moon, new moon movie, robert pattinson, spice girls, star wars, stephenie meyer, twilight, twilight movie, vampires on April 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
OK, fine, I give in, I admit it. I am enjoying the Twilight series. They’re not likely to win the Nobel Prize for literature any time soon, but they’re worth taking the time for.
Based on what I am hearing (much of which has to do with a comparative preference for forcibly removing and eating one’s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, buffy, cranial trauma, folklore, idiot, soup, twilight, vampires on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This was a relatively recent bookstore find:
While it may be a handy-dandy resource when researching Eastern European folklore, or perhaps offer some insights into the deeper meanings of Twilight or Buffy… this title seems a little misleading.
Here is my revised Complete Idiot’s Guide to Vampires:
If you see one coming toward you, run like hell. You [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, edward cullen, midnight sun, stephenie meyer, twilight, vampires on March 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’d been happily ignorant of the Twilight books for a long time, indeed enough so that when YA literary fandom began hyping the release of Breaking Dawn with a fervor second only to the Harry Potter firestorms, my only thought on the matter was “who the hell is Stephenie Meyer?”.
The subsequent movie posters did little [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, poetry, robert jordan, wheel of time on September 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
At the wake the mourners gathered,
kings and philosophers, poets and artists
and the greatest of them raised his glass to the dear departed.
He called for a jester to play a song,
but no music but sour could sound.
He called for a meal and wine and ale
but all tasted of nothing.
He turned then to a wise man for [...]
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