arm doily
This is my new favorite phrase ever.
Ben's teacher sounds amazing.
Early: You folks are all insane. Simon: Well, my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.
'Objects In Space'
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.
JZ - Jan 20, 2005 9:42:12 am PST #8615 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
JohnSweden - Jan 20, 2005 9:42:16 am PST #8616 of 10002
I can't even.
My problem with "God Bless America" isn't so much the GodYay -- it's the bombast. It seems to leave people thinking the title is a command, not a plea.
I hear God Bless (Only) America when I hear it, perhaps a reaction to the current (over)use of it, and that helped make me sympathetic to Carlos Delgado's windmill-tilting protest.
Sure. Although really our national anthem is all about "Holy shit, we are about to get our asses KICKED by a world superpower and.... We're alive? We're alive! YAY, we're alive!" which isn't really part of our current national identity either.
I think a little of that mentality is good to keep in one's back pocket, just on principle. It will also come in handy in the not-too-distant future when China says Knight takes Queen, Sam. You're in Check.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 20, 2005 9:42:29 am PST #8617 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
For my money, America the Beautiful would me highly preferable if you must stray from the actual anthem. Still some god in there for those who need it, but not as strident
I still hope that someday THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND gets this kind of status, but this is not a Woody Guthrie friendly era, I fear.
P.M. Marc - Jan 20, 2005 9:43:43 am PST #8618 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
People regularly assume I'm 10 years younger than my real age. Which means that when people see Pete and I out at dinner at a nice place, an awful lot of them assume I'm Pete's mid-life crisis freaky goth chick arm doily. I'm amused by it, but it makes him a bit cranky
Poor Pete. Would it help him to be reminded that he looks a good five years younger than his age?
brenda m - Jan 20, 2005 9:44:36 am PST #8619 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Yeah, probably not so much.
"My reindeer flies sideways"
Heh. We had "my reindeer is yellow; yours is a pea-green" but that's all I've ever been able to remember. And now I wish I hadn't, since Pomp and Circumstance is a horridly tenacious earworm.
Atropa - Jan 20, 2005 9:45:36 am PST #8620 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Poor Pete. Would it help him to be reminded that he looks a good five years younger than his age?
Good luck convincing him of that. He won't believe me.
P.M. Marc - Jan 20, 2005 9:46:47 am PST #8621 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Good luck convincing him of that. He won't believe me.
But it's TRUE.
Silly Pete. He looks no older than mid-30s.
amych - Jan 20, 2005 9:48:50 am PST #8622 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
He's older than mid-30s? I wouldna guessed (and I'm not saying so for feelgood purposes, either.)
juliana - Jan 20, 2005 9:51:26 am PST #8623 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
He's older than mid-30s? I wouldna guessed (and I'm not saying so for feelgood purposes, either.)
Same surprise here.
Narrator - Jan 20, 2005 9:54:02 am PST #8624 of 10002
The evil is this way?
"My reindeer flies sideways"
It was "My rabbit flies sideways..." in my school.