It was a pretty ice storm, but it was awfully hard on the trees.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 31 But Looks 29
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Jan 10, 2005 5:18:27 am PST #4399 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
tommyrot - Jan 10, 2005 5:20:11 am PST #4400 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
We're getting our ice storm tonight. One-half to one inch of freezing rain.
I will have to try extra hard to keep my new-year's resolution to not break any limbs this winter....
amych - Jan 10, 2005 5:20:14 am PST #4401 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I did not have oatmeal, steel- or any-other-cut. I'm a rebel!
I have absolutely fuckall to do today. However, I don't think eating oatmeal will be among my timesucks.
Gudanov - Jan 10, 2005 5:20:25 am PST #4402 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Also, I didn't eat oatmeal this morning.
SailAweigh - Jan 10, 2005 5:25:12 am PST #4403 of 10002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
but it was awfully hard on the trees.
It definitely can be. And the trees can be hard on people. I had a near miss after one ice storm here while walking past some huge old trees that border the sidewalks the lead up to the Capitol building. I heard this snap and a huge thud behind me and a big old branch had broken off and plummeted 30 feet or so onto the sidewalk. I don't know that it would have killed me, but it sure could have broken a few bones if it had landed on me. Still gives me shivers.
Jesse - Jan 10, 2005 5:27:20 am PST #4404 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Good luck, Sue.
I saw the most hilarious fingerless gloves the other day: they had stuff embroidered across the fingers. Stuff like "Thug life." I was dying.
§ ita § - Jan 10, 2005 5:28:42 am PST #4405 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sue, I'd go back to bed NOW. How could you later regret spending the week sleeping?
In "that'd be an interesting precedent" gossip news:
The former girlfriend of Ellen DeGeneres is considering legal action against both the comedienne and her new lover, Ally McBeal actress Portia De Rossi. Chat show host DeGeneres ended her four-year relationship with photographer-director Alexandra Hedison last month and is now sharing her Hollywood mansion with De Rossi, who recently split up with Ringo Starr's step-daughter Francesca Gregorini. Hedison is now planning to take palimony action against DeGeneres, and is reportedly suing De Rossi for "alienation of affection" - a legal phrase dating back to when seducing a spouse was regarded as theft. However, Richard Barry from the American Academy Of Matrimonial Lawyers tells British newspaper The Sunday Times this could be difficult to prove: "She would have to prove the seduction took place in those states which still recognize the law, like on holiday in Hawaii. If she can do that, she could cause a lot of financial damage."
tommyrot - Jan 10, 2005 5:37:24 am PST #4406 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I have this "alienation of affection" thing. But I don't have anyone to sue....
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 10, 2005 5:38:10 am PST #4407 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Huh. Aaron carter news from IMDB. Apparently a mattress flew off a truck in front of the car he was driving, wedged under his car, and burst into flames. Which he then tried to douse with water bottles before being dragged to safety by his much saner girlfriend.
Dude better take a pass if anyone comes offering a Final Destination 3 role.
sumi - Jan 10, 2005 5:48:10 am PST #4408 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
No discussion of 24?
Sophia -- Lilly and Garrett were going out but broke up some time last season. I believe.
That new cop? He was in an episode of Angel!
He played (coincidentally) somebody named Garrett in "Players".