Thanks, Joe.
Oz is the highest-scoring person ever to fail to graduate.
Willow ,'Him'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Betsy HP - Aug 20, 2005 7:20:30 pm PDT #2917 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
DavidS - Aug 20, 2005 7:25:48 pm PDT #2918 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
"The singer is not sure who shot him; but, he says, 'I know it was a .44.'"
Actually it sounds like it was a hot shot (the drug kind). Ninth Ward - figures.
Strega - Aug 20, 2005 8:31:40 pm PDT #2919 of 10001
Skipping ahead because, Tim, if you're still here, I have a Brilliant and Insightful Question for you. That I always remember an hour after you've passed through.
Which means I'm almost certainly too late. Grump. That'll teach me to spend the evening watching cartoons.
DavidS - Aug 20, 2005 8:38:12 pm PDT #2920 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I have a Brilliant and Insightful Question for you.
I want to hear it!
That'll teach me to spend the evening watching cartoons.
Which cartoons?
Largo - Aug 20, 2005 8:38:33 pm PDT #2921 of 10001
Here you all are, talking about your Plimsouls, and your X, and your Robert A. Heinlein...and here I am, with my Linda Ronstadt, and my Warren Zevon, and my Raymond Chandler...and I'm feeling left out.
Sad, really. Proof that my generation has passed me by totally...and I'm not even 30.
DavidS - Aug 20, 2005 8:39:42 pm PDT #2922 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Awww Largo, Warren Zevon co-wrote songs with Carl Hiassen which is pretty noir. Not to mention "Lawyers, Guns & Money."
Largo - Aug 20, 2005 8:46:30 pm PDT #2923 of 10001
Warren Zevon co-wrote songs with Carl Hiassen
It must've been for his later albums. So far, I own just his self-titled album and Excitable Boy. That's only two, but in the year (or so) since I first purchased them, I don't think even one day goes by w/o my playing them, oh, three times through, apiece.
ETA: The only other times when I played a particular artist's music so much? Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon.
And when I'm not playing Zevon? Linda Ronstadt. And when I'm not playing Ronstadt? Jackson Browne.
Strange for an Okie boy to be so into the '70's, So-Cal "Mellow Mafia" scene, isn't it? Quick, someone stop me 'fore I buy an Eagles CD! Oops. Too late.
Kristen - Aug 20, 2005 8:48:09 pm PDT #2924 of 10001
Dude. I was so totally listening to Jackson Browne today in my car. Which, I suppose, doesn't make today all that much different from any other day.
DCJensen - Aug 20, 2005 8:50:59 pm PDT #2925 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
I thought it was a formality.
Any formality that includes spooning gramps is just WRONG.
But it was implied that it was a symbolic formality. Not spooning. Sleeping in the same bed. And? the character left as soon as grandpaw fell asleep.
Heinlein wasn't advocating you sleep with a future husband's grandpaw, he was showing that the social structure of the society in the book had a different take on marrage.
I acknowledge your squick, though. IRL? Squicky. In fiction, not so squicky. At least for me.
Largo - Aug 20, 2005 8:52:28 pm PDT #2926 of 10001
Dude. I was so totally listening to Jackson Browne today in my car.
Please. Tell me it was Late for the Sky. And even if it wasn't, tell me, anyway.