No, it's shiny! I like to meet new people. They've all got stories...

Kaylee ,'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.


Hil R. - Mar 24, 2005 3:35:25 am PST #57 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Poor Emmett. And poor Hec and EM and JZ.

I was teaching at 8 this morning, and I let them leave half an hour early. I'd gone over all the material I needed to go over, and a bunch of other stuff to fill some time, and I just couldn't find anything else to say. They've got almost no new material this week, and what they do have is really easy.


DXMachina - Mar 24, 2005 3:42:45 am PST #58 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I've never actually seen the Theismann play. The descriptions were so bad that I always change the channel when someone says they're going to show it.


Tom Scola - Mar 24, 2005 3:55:19 am PST #59 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

I remember watching MNF live when that happened.

My interest in watching football has waned since then.

Poor Emmett.


Nora Deirdre - Mar 24, 2005 3:56:46 am PST #60 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Frank, ugh. It's possible that he's out to get ya, but more likely he's just being extraordinarily self-involved and has his head up his ass. We get in rages about parking stuff too. It's like people have no concept that other people live and park in the same small place. (I have several detailed rants in my head, but since I am actually out of my head angry already about other stuff, I won't go into it, for fear I wil fall to the ground clutching my chest in an anxiety stroke)

To Sum Up: I hate people a lot.


tommyrot - Mar 24, 2005 4:00:13 am PST #61 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Parking sucks. I am amazed at how many times I see cars completely parked in in my neighborhood. Like, an inch of space both ahead of and behind a car.


§ ita § - Mar 24, 2005 4:03:44 am PST #62 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The apex of my LA parking issues revolves around the Hummer (oddly, I saw one the other day that had a gazillion things strapped to it, and it looked almost useful. But I digress..) and the ultra-long'n'wide pickups with the bed-flap down. They bleed too far over in their parking spots, and/or you have to weave around them just to navigate the parking area.

IMDB says Hayden Church is playing Venom in Spidey 3.


sumi - Mar 24, 2005 4:13:25 am PST #63 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Timelies everyone!

On Alias: Isn't it funny that Vaughn stumbled upon Elena (if that is who she is) while Jack and Arvin are searching high and low for her.


Frankenbuddha - Mar 24, 2005 4:15:18 am PST #64 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I've never actually seen the Theismann play. The descriptions were so bad that I always change the channel when someone says they're going to show it.

DX is wise. Saw it once; never need to again.

It's possible that he's out to get ya, but more likely he's just being extraordinarily self-involved and has his head up his ass.

My paranoid guess was that he reparked so that he could just pull forward into the space in front of the house next door without having to shovel out, or with minimal shovelling, which he couldn't do if I was in that space. Why he didn't park that way in the first place, I have no idea.

That is, if it is the guy next door, and not just some random idjit.


Nutty - Mar 24, 2005 4:16:00 am PST #65 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Gah. Upsetting. No more mousetraps.

Yikes. I mean, yay for the Beatrix Potter gentleness, but boo for having to demonstrate it. I am thinking the humane traps are your best bet. Although now thinking affectionately back to moments in history of my stepmother girding herself to catch a mouse in a bathroom once -- apron, boots, oven mitts, broom and paper bag. She looked like a hockey goalie, lacking only the mask.

Emmett! That face! Glad to see someone has already invoked Owen Wilson. By no stretch of the imagination should anyone say the name Tony Conigliaro to him.

I've never actually seen the Theismann play. The descriptions were so bad that I always change the channel when someone says they're going to show it.

I've seen lots of talk about it, but never seen it either. I don't think they actually show it any more, only still photos of afterwards. (I did watch part of an NFL game where a man broke his neck, and was being breathed for on the field, and the commentators in their booth were carefully not explaining that as they hastily cut to commercial. He ended up OK later.)

Anyone else seen the AARP commercial criticizing Dubya's Social Security plan where the woman has a clogged sink and they demolish her whole house?

I saw that! Halfway through I was like, Oh, this is political! Clever.


juliana - Mar 24, 2005 4:16:04 am PST #66 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

(Is the Theismann play the broken-leg one? 'Cause, ugh.)

Timelies. Poor Emmett! May his ENT be as kick-ass as mine.