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Post by Sue on Jun 24, 2003 22:43:13 GMT -5
Thanks. It's nice that some people think I'm funny. I get quite the kick out of my own jokes....but occasionally they fall pretty flat here. Which is just unfair. So much of my best material is wasted on you people, I swear. Not wasted on me. But, I finally had to decide the you all would think I was just padding my posting numbers f I replied "LOL" to each and every one of the last 60 posts!
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Post by Sue on Jun 24, 2003 22:45:12 GMT -5
Doing a dry run in Tampa on something there. I'll know more after I see what works and what doesn't. As this will be geared to the academicians, there'll be quite a bit of research involved as to percentages of BtVS fiction as opposed to other shows, stats on slash to traditional pairings, B/A to B/X to B/G to B/S. I have some ideas as to the kind of presentation information to start with. Waiting on Tampa to see it from another perspective. Look guys: ** percentages** My kind of offering! The percentage of Buffy fic to other shows: zillions to one.
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Post by SpringSummers on Jun 24, 2003 22:48:05 GMT -5
Yes, it does sound like a presentation is required. I've done many a presentation, but it would be just my luck that someone there would recognize me, and somehow it would all get back to my boss. I know it sounds paranoid, but strange things do happen, and the last thing I need is that kind of problem with him right now. Well, I will think on it all and maybe see if I can get details. It's hard to believe that they won't have any reading material from submissions that don't involve a presentation . . . but it does sound that way. VLAD - I agree that the "silliness" in my analyses is appropriate to the show, and really, I would hate to take it out, as it is such an integral part of them.
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Post by RustyGoode on Jun 24, 2003 22:52:08 GMT -5
Spring, If they would make you take out the spicy extras or the so-called "racy, silly" parts, then I think a S'cubie boycott would be called for. I know that this is a literary extravaganza, but come on, it is based on Buffy. BtVS wallowed in humor and sex and innuendo. It, like Shakespeare, strove to reach great heights in capturing the human story, but never resisted the urge to wink at the audience or give it to them "As You Like It." BtVS was written for the fans, and anyone that tries to tear it apart and micro-analyze it without having room to appreciate all the sillyness...well, they are just kind of missing the point aren't they? Vlad I'm with Vlad, leave the silly parts in. The S'cubies were founded on silliness and an obsession with ebulgence. We have to respect our roots.
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Post by karalee on Jun 24, 2003 22:52:24 GMT -5
I wanna be a Master S'cubie! I'm trying real hard! *stomps foot and pouts*
Rob, I laugh at everything you say. But then I laugh at everything I say too. I may not be the best judge at humor.
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Post by William the Bloody on Jun 24, 2003 22:56:10 GMT -5
I'm with Vlad, leave the silly parts in. The S'cubies were founded on silliness and an obsession with ebulgence. We have to respect our roots. Rusty, is that how you tell a "dyed in the wool" S'cubie? By respectively checking their roots? *goes over and sits with Rob in the Bad Joke Corner.*
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Post by RustyGoode on Jun 24, 2003 23:00:05 GMT -5
Rusty, is that how you tell a "dyed in the wool" S'cubie? By respectively checking their roots? *goes over and sits with Rob in the Bad Joke Corner.* Long may they wave. Um, I mean it's research. Academic detachment and all that.
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Post by Rob on Jun 24, 2003 23:05:35 GMT -5
Rob, But, you see this is good news. All that great children's literature is still out there awaiting you. (Some of my favorite books are "kids" books.) I was actually just trying to be cute, there. I actually read voraciously...just not in the same areas as many here. I read all of the original 56 Hardy Boys mysteries several times over by the time I was nine years old, for example. I was drawn to "older" (poor word to use, I know) material at a pretty young age. When I was ten, I picked up Christie's "Ten Little Indians." I was hooked from the first sentence. I remember snapping up her stuff as fast as I could. A pointless high school memory: in Sophomore English, we were asked to do a research paper, and given three novels to choose from. One of those was "Ten Little Indians." Oh, man...this is a sure A, and I only got those in music classes. I'd read it fifteen times or something. Naturally, I was too lazy to claim it in time: in our class of thirty students, ten were alloted to each of the three choices, and the Christie book went first. So I wound up having to analyze "The Great Gatsby." Of course, I got a C. I liked the book....to this day, though, I wonder how a 15 year old is supposed to understand the subtext of a love triangle set in Jazz Age New York City. These days..I know I could get a B minus. My third choice, by the way, was "The Catcher In The Rye." I decided I couldn't write a decent research paper about a baseball player, so I skipped that one. Naturally, one day a few months down the road I picked it up to kill time while serving detention and started reading....and I couldn't put it down. I could've written a KILLER paper on Holden Caulfield. There was a guy a fifteen year old could identify with. Another depressing story from my high school days. Such fun....
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Post by DaveCrenshaw on Jun 24, 2003 23:06:57 GMT -5
My daughter is in the other room watching one of the Harry Potter movies, which gives me a chance to pop in and say hello. Gawd how I've missed you guys. But on the other hand, Gawd how my daughter is getting big. 12 years old and the kid is now 5'4" and able to fit into my old dress blue uniform (I'm letting her have it as a Halloween costume this year). Don't you wish sometimes that we could just freeze time and they could stay at an age for at least a while? Because it does seem that as soon as I get used to one phase of her life, she's started the next one. It's rediculous! Any day now I suspect she'll be driving and introducing me to her husband and kids!
Guess this also officially makes me old. But hey, it beats the alternative.
So what have I missed? Besides the new homepage. Smooth transition Vlad, very smooth.
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Post by William the Bloody on Jun 24, 2003 23:07:33 GMT -5
Part 14 has magically appeared and this Part is now closed...
That's it.. it's over...that's all...go on! Get out... You CAN'T post here! It's locked...move along...vamoose!
Vlad, TA, tp
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