Today was the day my doula has a picnic where she invites all current and former clients. It was a lot of fun to see all these babies and other pregnant women. I mentioned that a friend had just had a baby recently and that she jokingly referred to her as a "breast barnacle." Everyone thought it was the funniest and most accurate thing they had ever heard. Of course, I gave all the credit to Plei.
I'm sorry, dad. You know I would never have tried to save River's life if I had known there was a dinner party at risk.
Simon ,'Safe'
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.
Stephanie - May 01, 2005 1:06:33 pm PDT #6794 of 10001
Trust my rage
Susan W. - May 01, 2005 1:06:37 pm PDT #6795 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
There was an Annabelle along with Annabel in the toddler nursery today. At least this is the only other one we've met--not like the gaggle of Zachs and Jacks in the male portion of her age cohort. And I still like our spelling better. It's older-school.
My take on Natter v. Bitches? I go to Natter if I have a question about fighting or horses for my novel. I go to Bitches if I've found some gorgeous knicknack related to my novel that I just have to show someone and grump about being too poor to buy it.
Trudy Booth - May 01, 2005 1:07:19 pm PDT #6796 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Maybe it was flirting with you, Cass.
Topic!Cindy - May 01, 2005 1:18:40 pm PDT #6797 of 10001
What is even happening?
sj, the sun finally came out, here. I hope it's out in your area too, and that you keep feeling better.
Cass, that's too funny.
We had the same amount of French in high school. I'd respond in Spanish, which I did take, iffn I could remember any of it.Yo tambien y no hablo español bien. Mas despacio, por favor. Quiero una siesta. Quiero cerveza. Quiero una vacaciones.
As he was putting it together, he sang the following song, inspired by a BTVS-themed fake driver's license for Spike that Cindy sent him long ago and which is one of his greatest treasures:
Everybody's ni-ice to-oo Mister Spi-ike
Everybody likes me 'cause I'm Mister Spi-ike
Everybody's happy liking Mister 'Spi-ike
♥ Emmett is the coolest.
erikaj - May 01, 2005 1:21:40 pm PDT #6798 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod. My mother even wants the Emmett report. She's a fan.
Narrator - May 01, 2005 1:22:43 pm PDT #6799 of 10001
The evil is this way?
Yo tambien y no hablo español bien. Mas despacio, por favor. Quiero una siesta. Quiero cerveza. Quiero una vacaciones.
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Narrator - May 01, 2005 1:22:46 pm PDT #6800 of 10001
The evil is this way?
Number slut!
erikaj - May 01, 2005 1:25:57 pm PDT #6801 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
No te enojas. No vale la pena.
Not surprisingly, no vale la pena is my favorite idiom ever.
Steph L. - May 01, 2005 1:28:38 pm PDT #6802 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
largely b/c the Chinese is never explained (and I've watched the original 2-part pilot through....the one where Mal gets married-but-not-really, and there's been no explanation as to why they all swear in Chinese, and sorry, but that bugs).
It's never explained on the show, maybe, but Joss's explanation is that in the future, America and China are the two superpowers, such that everyone from the bottom of the social ladder to the very top knows a bit of Mandarin.
Hmm. I think having to find that out from a source outside of the teevee makes it a weak element. Everything the viewer needs to know should be accessible through the show itself; granted, not everything must be spelled out in 50-foot-high anvils, and not everything must be revealed in the first episode, but as a viewer, I expect it to eventually be explained on the show itself.
§ ita § - May 01, 2005 1:31:10 pm PDT #6803 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I never felt a lack of explanation ... well, okay, it wasn't explained, but I just thought "Huh. The Chinese must have gained cultural or political power between now and then." and figured the how of that gaining may or may not be interesting to tell.