Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'

'The Message'


Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.  

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.


brenda m - Jul 15, 2005 4:08:11 am PDT #150 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Jeans day today, finally. The last three Fridays we've had either clients or our CEO in the office. It's amazing how much the jeans days do for my mental health.

The project I was freaking about this week is still ongoing. I was right, it wasn't close to what SuperDemandingVeryImportant person wanted. But, weirdly, she's not being at all bad about it. And she's not the type to be all friendly when she's pissed, so I guess it's going to be ok. It'll finish up today, so that's going to be a relief anyway.


Jesse - Jul 15, 2005 4:11:13 am PDT #151 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

So, I'm reading this article, and it opens like this:

Two high-profile U.S. senators, Joseph Lieberman and Hillary Rodham Clinton, are incensed over pornographic content "hidden" in the popular video game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," and are demanding action from either the government or the game's maker.

What's up with the quote marks? It's actually hidden, no? Not "hidden"??


Kat - Jul 15, 2005 4:12:15 am PDT #152 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

where is everyone?
sleeping!

Today is my first "day," though it's really a professional development meeting, at my new school. don't know what to wear yet.


§ ita § - Jul 15, 2005 4:15:16 am PDT #153 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I guess the quotation marks refer to how trivial it is to find, once you know how, and is casting aspersions on the development team and the integrity of the publishers.

Jeans day for me too. That's all I'm sure of. Must eat, then think.


tommyrot - Jul 15, 2005 4:16:43 am PDT #154 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Yay! I'm at work!

Yay! Natter!

One of those "yays" doesn't belong....


Narrator - Jul 15, 2005 4:21:51 am PDT #155 of 10002
The evil is this way?

Is it midnight yet? And why can't I get the newest "Harry Potter" if it's midnight SOMEWHERE? I mean, I'm pretty sure it's midnight by now in New Zealand or Australia or the "Lost" Island. What's the point of time zones if I can't get them to work for me for a change?

This whine has been brought to you by a certified member of the "J.K. Rowling is Torturing Me Club."


Kat - Jul 15, 2005 4:23:29 am PDT #156 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

A friend who owns a bookstore has had the books in her store for 3 days. She's said that it was like having illicit drugs, like she could have gone on to the street and whispered, "Hey,kid, I got some Harry Potter."


Connie Neil - Jul 15, 2005 4:24:23 am PDT #157 of 10002
brillig

my computer won't recognize my camera.

Oh, you hate to hear about things like this, shunning and the snub direct. Obviously your camera and your computer were at a party somewhere, and your camera got into the booze and barfed on your computer's new pants and didn't apologize, and it's been a downward spiral ever since.


§ ita § - Jul 15, 2005 4:24:36 am PDT #158 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Did she read it? Is she interested in it?

Can I borrow yours when you're done, Kat?


Lyra Jane - Jul 15, 2005 4:25:55 am PDT #159 of 10002
Up with the sun

He did challenge individuals by naming Barbra Streisand on the one hand and pointing out that there were three conservatives on the list-- and one had killed an abortion doctor

You took that literally. I didn't -- I assumed Stewart might be, you know, exagerrating in a humorous manner to make his point. Goldberg said there were more than three, and without reading the book, I have no way of knowing.

Plenty of people hate singers and celebrities who shoot off about politics. I think that's an idiotic tack to take -- what, does Barbra Streisand have less right to express her opinion than your neighbor the dentist -- but it is a very prominent attitude in our culture. Not many people outside the loony right hate Jimmy Carter.

I watched the interview again last night. The part up to the commercial break isn't too bad, though I don't think Stewart was talking to Goldberg as much as he was trying to win points with the audience. After the commercial break, it was total preaching to the choir.

Also, timelies.