Willow: Yes. Hi. You must be Angel's handsome, yet androgynous, son. Connor: It's Connor. Willow: And the sneer's genetic. Who knew?

'A Hole in the World'


Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


JZ - Apr 30, 2005 7:54:13 pm PDT #6699 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.

Egad, Susan, that dress is stunning. Possibly not as showstopping as Aimée's, but probably a sight easier to sit down, stand up and dance in.

D. Griswold, a very happy birthday! Apparently both you and your sister seriously rock.

It's all quiet and peaceful -- Hec is out at another book-related event, and Emmett just went to bed. We watched Lemony Snicket (which improved on rewatching; Jim Carrey was less prominent and irritating, the Baudelaires were more lovely and resourceful and heartbreaking, and the art direction and score were just sumptuous), and then I read him the first two chapters of The Bad Beginning and got him settled into bed, rubbed his back, and asked him about today's Little Leage game and the rest of his team until he drifted off. It was all just good. Sweet and mellow and good.

::tacklehugs billytea::

::steals everyone else's carrot cake::


dcp - Apr 30, 2005 8:13:40 pm PDT #6700 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Susan, have you come across the story of Rfm. Thomas Plunkett? [link]

I like this bit: "...raised again to corporal 'notwithstanding little fits of inebriety,'...." Hah.


Susan W. - Apr 30, 2005 8:20:33 pm PDT #6701 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Yep, I've heard of Plunkett. Quite a character. I don't have anyone directly based on him, but he's one of the ones I keep in mind as I'm writing.


dcp - Apr 30, 2005 8:25:27 pm PDT #6702 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

That supine firing position seems very strange. When you get together with the re-enactors, ask if any of them have tried it.

eta: better picture, bottom right of page [link]


Susan W. - Apr 30, 2005 8:30:24 pm PDT #6703 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Unfortunately the reenactors I'm going to meet are all using your standard-issue Brown Bess musket, which I don't think you could fire that way. The Baker was significantly shorter than muskets or hunting rifles to make it easier to fire and reload while crouching or lying down in cover.

I've got my novel open in another window, and I'm typing in and doing an initial edit on this week's handwritten work. I have a minor villain named Colonel Robuchon. (All my French characters are named after Canadian figure skaters or French chefs who show up on Iron Chef. All my Spanish characters are named for baseball players.) MS Word suggests "Robocop" as a correct spelling. Colonel Robocop. That'd put a whole new spin on the plot.


SailAweigh - Apr 30, 2005 8:43:13 pm PDT #6704 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

MS Word suggests "Robocop" as a correct spelling. Colonel Robocop. That'd put a whole new spin on the plot.

Hehehehe. Hehehehe. Sorry, just, hehehehe.


JZ - Apr 30, 2005 8:44:55 pm PDT #6705 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.

Susan, heh. The best Word correction I've ever gotten was when it was trying to cope with a paper I'd written on film and the female gaze (the meaning of which I no longer remember), and after puzzling a bit over Sontag, it suggested that possibly I meant Sandhog.


Susan W. - Apr 30, 2005 8:52:53 pm PDT #6706 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Hehehehe. Hehehehe. Sorry, just, hehehehe.

Exactly my reaction!

after puzzling a bit over Sontag, it suggested that possibly I meant Sandhog.

t snerk

Oh, and in sad news for linguistic pedants, today I found "free reign" rather than "free rein" in a very well-written and otherwise clean and polished book.


Nora Deirdre - Apr 30, 2005 9:20:03 pm PDT #6707 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

grr, argh.

Had what I thought was a nice night out with the girls. Ate a lovely plate of steakfrites, had a few glasses of wine, a few glasses pf beer. The evening ended badly, with my best friend yelling at me on the streets of Cambridge because I'm married and am buying a house and she's not. I let her vent for a while, hoping she'd come to her senses. I finally, in a break in the action, asked, "are you aware, you're YELLING at me?" she said, "yes, I am." I turned on my heel and walked home.

It was pretty awful. I knew there was no reasoning with her, but I couldn't just stand there any longer and let her berate me.


Susan W. - Apr 30, 2005 9:22:41 pm PDT #6708 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

I don't blame you, Nora. I'm sorry your evening came to a bad end.