Happy birthday, Victor!
I dreamed that I came home, and the people in the apartment across the hall had just moved in and left us all of their boxes. It was beautiful.
The mover's fantasy! Good luck with that.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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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.
Jesse - Feb 05, 2005 5:32:13 am PST #4217 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
§ ita § - Feb 05, 2005 5:33:37 am PST #4218 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am only mildly itchy this morning. So that's nice. Why does Benadryl have to have a hangover? That's not fair.
DXMachina - Feb 05, 2005 5:45:19 am PST #4219 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I also don't see these little impromtu memorials as something permanent, though, something to be tended. I find something sort of touching and even meaningful in their transience.
I guess the thing I wonder about is whether these people would try to do the same thing in the hospital room where granny died
JenP - Feb 05, 2005 5:47:13 am PST #4220 of 10002
Happy Birthday, Victor!!
Wow, I slept late. Coffee now.
§ ita § - Feb 05, 2005 5:48:52 am PST #4221 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How did Granny die in the hospital room?
In my experience, it's been sudden and accidental deaths that get memorialised -- some guy who keels over from a heart attack is a lot less likely to get a wreath on the sidewalk than the guy who was mown down in a cruel Segway accident.
Lee - Feb 05, 2005 5:52:18 am PST #4222 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Happy Birthday Victor!
I'm glad you are feeling less itchy, ita.
DXMachina - Feb 05, 2005 5:54:27 am PST #4223 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Do you build a memorial at the bottom of the basement stairs that little Bobby fell down and broke his neck on? To me it's too much like "I want to share my grief with the entire world!"
§ ita § - Feb 05, 2005 5:57:28 am PST #4224 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ready for your road trip, Lee?
To me it's too much like "I want to share my grief with the entire world!"
I think it's unquestionably sharing -- but sharing that, in Brenda's example, is people reaching out to each other in shock and grief -- over someone they didn't even know.
What's wrong with sharing grief? When did that become bad?
tommyrot - Feb 05, 2005 5:58:03 am PST #4225 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.
the guy who was mown down in a cruel Segway accident.
Yes, but the cruelty of this scenario is mitigated somewhat by its comical factor.
vw bug - Feb 05, 2005 5:58:25 am PST #4226 of 10002
Mostly lurking...
Happy Birthday, Victor!