Good call. It's not like the analogy can be expanded to find a parallel for a bookstore in the TV world.
Heh.
Well it makes sense that TV would be totally homogeneous, what with there only being three networks and all....
And almost sixty-five percent of that was actual compliment. Is that a personal best?
Xander ,'End of Days'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
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.
tommyrot - Jun 15, 2005 4:21:27 am PDT #2020 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.
§ ita § - Jun 15, 2005 4:25:26 am PDT #2021 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's funny ... his dad is a muckety muck in TV ... so it's not like he has any reason to be ignorant of the details. I guess it's what happens when you start from that position of dislike. Also, he has a bit of an addictive personality.
msbelle - Jun 15, 2005 4:35:28 am PDT #2022 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
LAST DAY!! Do the LAST DAY dance with me.
WOO HOO! WOO HOO!
WHEE! WHEE!
WHOOT!
Fred Pete - Jun 15, 2005 4:43:01 am PDT #2023 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Congrats, msbelle!
Allyson - Jun 15, 2005 4:51:04 am PDT #2024 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I am, I've been learning, scarier than I could have imagined, and I get the pause of respect before sparring from guys as well as women. It comes down to technique, eye, and willingness to take a hit and keep moving forward. Heart.
That's not divided up by gender, and in the end, can win you the fight.
Oooh. I wanna use this in the piece. I'm interviewing Tim and Rachel about the critics' responses to the first three episodes of The Inside, specifically about "girl in peril" and whether it's reasonable that a new agent would get tied to the railroad tracks in the beginning, regardless of gender, of s/he keeps charging in without backup, and why people do stupid shit like that in the name of heroism or trying to prove strength.
Jesse - Jun 15, 2005 4:51:33 am PDT #2025 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I was HIGHLY DISAPPOINTED by Vanilla Ice on that repeat last night. That was lame as fuck.
David Sedaris has ruined Billie Holliday for me as well.
I am at my new job, but don't really feel like working. Whoops. At least at 10, there's a graduation thingie for the people who recently passed the GED test. So it's not like anyone's expecting me to get anything done this morning.
-t - Jun 15, 2005 4:56:34 am PDT #2026 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Happy Last Day, msbelle!
My boss isn't here. My office mate's boss isn't here. I should've brought a book.
Theodosia - Jun 15, 2005 5:00:08 am PDT #2027 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Billie Holiday is unruinable even by the most skilled impersonator, not to mention the legion of unskilled ones.
§ ita § - Jun 15, 2005 5:06:54 am PDT #2028 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Why do people do stupid shit? One of the people I had dinner with last night has neck problems that might result in paralysis if he takes a hit the wrong way. Another has bone chips floating around in her thumb. He waited until the day before the big test to decide he wasn't going to to it. She did the test anyway.
And that's not even heroism (let's for the moment ignore my own tweaked wrist). That's just ... tying up too much of your own wellbeing in what you can and do do. There's a picture in your head of a martial artist (or an FBI agent) and it involves certain things -- not being a wuss, being tough, having heart, and these things are in service of a certain goal, and not achieving that goal means you are a wuss with no heart and really what were you thinking getting into this anyway?
Or that's how it works in my head.
Lyra Jane - Jun 15, 2005 5:17:31 am PDT #2029 of 10001
Up with the sun
I was HIGHLY DISAPPOINTED by Vanilla Ice on that repeat last night. That was lame as fuck.
Did he even do the Destiny's Child song at all? Or did he just randomly interject the title lyric into his own lame-ass rap?