Ah, yes, of course. The gypsies, they gave you your soul. The gypsies are filthy people. Ptui! We shall speak of them no more.

Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'


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.


Topic!Cindy - Apr 02, 2005 3:04:05 pm PST #2591 of 10001
What is even happening?

I had pizza too, and the good wine we haven't bought since we realized we're much broker than we thought we were. Whee!

I was going to say something last night but it felt inappropriate in the face of Sean's trauma re: his dead car.

I didn't come back online after watching it. I am really irrationally angry with someone who doesn't exist. I don't know if I ever got this angry with a single character on BtVS. Maybe altogether, but not any individual. During their last scene together, the last time Adam called Joan "Jane," I really wanted her to turn and give him that death eye, and say, "The name's Joan," and then walk out the door. Oof. That was a gut punch.


Jesse - Apr 02, 2005 3:04:21 pm PST #2592 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Last week or so, I went to a speed dating thing that was filmed by CNN.


Steph L. - Apr 02, 2005 3:04:44 pm PST #2593 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Jesse -- did I miss something? Did you bust up a speed-dating event and get on CNN?

ION, here's a thread at the Democratic Underground forums where people are posting their favorite pictures of the pope: [link]

I know, it sounds cheesy, but some of the pictures, particularly with children, are very sweet.


Rio - Apr 02, 2005 3:07:26 pm PST #2594 of 10001
Are you ready to be strong?

Ooh, how do you find out when it's gonna be on again? (The Jesse thing, not the Pope thing.)


Jesse - Apr 02, 2005 3:10:58 pm PST #2595 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh, I didn't get into the whole thing here? It was supposed to be regular speed-dating, but half the guys had been recruited by CNN for a story on people's impressions of tall vs. short men. So then they interviewed some of us after, and that has apparently been made into a bit on CNN Headline News.

Edit: So I don't know how you know when they'll air it. It was supposed to be a segment for Anderson Cooper 360, but I don't know when that was supposed to air, either.


Steph L. - Apr 02, 2005 3:12:44 pm PST #2596 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Holy crap, Jesse -- I actually had Headline News on for the Short Guy clip, and I turned to another channel b/c I thought it was lame and boring (okay, short guys make less money than taller guys -- try having a pair of ovaries), but I even caught a snippet of the speed dating before I turned.

I ALMOST SAW YOU, but I was judgmental and hasty. Darn it! Darn it to heck!


sumi - Apr 02, 2005 3:13:14 pm PST #2597 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

I imagine that the Pope thing is 24/7 right now.

Woot - Illinois won!

I haven't been watching, but they kept showing the score on the crawl at ESPN2 (where I was watching a horse race) and I had to see the end.

Wow. First time Illinois goes to the Final EVER.

JoA: OMG, Cindy! That would have been so good! But you know, I was also saddened that no one will ever call her "Jane" again and if they did -- it would be this bitter bitter thing.


Jesse - Apr 02, 2005 3:17:25 pm PST #2598 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I thought it was lame and boring (okay, short guys make less money than taller guys -- try having a pair of ovaries),

Also? Just because Malcolm Gladwell has it in his new book does not make it news!! Anyway, the whole thing was annoying, because the guys who were most interesting were not actually there to meet people. Eh.


Topic!Cindy - Apr 02, 2005 3:27:43 pm PST #2599 of 10001
What is even happening?

sumi, I know. I thought the same thing (JoA), and somehow, because SNYDER was there, I kept hearing Xander's line from Restless, about being glad he (Snyder) got eaten by a giant snake, in my head. And then I would wish that Adam would get eaten by a giant snake.

Yesterday, in our newspaper's TV section, they teased Joan of Arcadia by saying something like, "Tonight, Joan bleaches her hair, and becomes a vampire slayer," as an April Fool's joke.

And since Adam LOST HIS SOUL!!! I think that was pretty funny.


Dana - Apr 02, 2005 3:36:00 pm PST #2600 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I watched Joan too. There was part of me that saw it coming, but I'm sad that my beautiful, perfect, unrealistic Adam is gone. But it was almost worth it to have Mrs. Landingham!God comforting Joan.