Kaylee: So how many fell madly in love with you and wanted to take you away from all this? Inara: Just the one. I think I'm slipping.

'Serenity'


Natter 34: Freak With No Name  

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.


Betsy HP - Mar 29, 2005 2:08:18 pm PST #1337 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

Aha! Laura Kinsale, a very good writer of historical romances, often has characters' religions affect their major decisions. One character's major crisis is being a Quaker in love with a non-Quaker (she winds up being read out of meeting); another is a medieval Catholic, and the big crisis scene of the book is her convincing her husband to go to confession.

I don't think of her books as being Christian because they contain sex, which just goes to show that I've accepted somebody else's definitions. Both of those heroines' religions are cornerstones of their lives and worldviews.


Cashmere - Mar 29, 2005 2:20:26 pm PST #1338 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Now with more nape!

As much as I love napes, in general. I sadly have a horrible one. Not so much horrible nape as awful hump on my back where my posture is so terrible. This, I blame on the boobs.

So it's basically my boobs preventing me from having a gorgeous, nape-highlighting, short bob.


Aims - Mar 29, 2005 2:22:01 pm PST #1339 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Yeah, but great boobs!


Hil R. - Mar 29, 2005 2:22:53 pm PST #1340 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

It's a sub-group within evangelicalism, and that publishing line is catering to the most conservative sub-group, because that's who their booksellers cater to.

I think they're also catering to a wider audience that way. I mean, there probably aren't that many people who are going to put down a book because people don't drink in it. I can see someone putting down a book that had a lecture about the evils of alcohol, but I really can't see the "I read this whole book and no one had a beer at any point -- I'm never reading this publisher again." But I'm sure there are people who'll stop reading if there is alcohol.


erikaj - Mar 29, 2005 2:25:06 pm PST #1341 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

I guess my nape is ok...Buffistas want to nibble on it. I'm still not sure what happens in those books...fair amount of relative death and stuff I imagine.


DavidS - Mar 29, 2005 2:25:18 pm PST #1342 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

So it's basically my boobs preventing me from having a gorgeous, nape-highlighting, short bob.

I am very content with your current haircut. And your boobs. It's a win win situation for me.


Hil R. - Mar 29, 2005 2:26:39 pm PST #1343 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I'm reading the excerpt from the Christian chick lit book linked in that article, and I've got a question -- what's a singles pastor? Is it just the minister who happens to coordinate the singles group, or is that his actual title within the rest of the church?


erikaj - Mar 29, 2005 2:26:50 pm PST #1344 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

And that's really why we grow hair. Or not.


JZ - Mar 29, 2005 2:27:31 pm PST #1345 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

StuntHusband, I'm awfully sorry about your former gent and the unhappiness he's locked himself into. I'm sure the folks at St. Gregory of Nyssa are still fretting over him -- I've been there a couple of times and have friends who married there and work there, and the entire community is just the biggest bunch of cheerfully lefty rabble-rousing LBGT-friendly social justice liberation theology happily crazy fringe radicals you'd ever want to meet.

I no longer have any idea how to classify any religious person's religiosity, and the fundamentalists and upper and lower-case c/Conservatives and e/Evangelicals in the U.S. have managed to muddle things up hopelessly. The folks of my general bent usually describe ourselves as social justice, liberation theology or sometimes Dorothy Day Christians, which I expect to our opposite numbers is like a big neon sign saying DELUDED HERETICS WHO ARE GONNA FRY IN HELL LIKE FAT LITTLE CORNISH GAME HENS, but whatever.

And, apropos of nothing else whatever, I'd feel all sad for the characters in the trashy romances I read if they couldn't ever get a little giddy with each other over a bottle of champagne. And now I really want to read the Quaker romance novel Betsy just posted about.


JZ - Mar 29, 2005 2:28:46 pm PST #1346 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Cereal:

brenda's nape is very pretty, and I bet Cashmere's is too.