Wesley: We were fighting on opposite sides, but it was the same war. Fred: but you hated her…didn't you? Wesley: It's not always about holding hands.

'Shells'


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.


Kat - Aug 12, 2005 11:05:42 am PDT #7772 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

poop on the IM dresses. are you gonna try a size up?

I am. I keep forgetting your miss curvy and I'm built like a spark plug, so cuts that fit for you, fit much differently for me.

It's a great cut and an adorable dress though so I want it to fit.


Frankenbuddha - Aug 12, 2005 11:07:20 am PDT #7773 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

For some reason I find it HIGHLY amusing that Adam West seems to have forever bogarted the voice of Batman.


Lee - Aug 12, 2005 11:07:31 am PDT #7774 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I got an IM dress in the mail today. I don't know if it fits yet or not, but I think it might be too very pink and summery for the office.


P.M. Marc - Aug 12, 2005 11:09:50 am PDT #7775 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

See, after watching many seasons of Family Guy, Adam West is now the crazy mayor of Qahog, for ever and ever.

Sister!

My Batman is Bale.

I got an IM dress in the mail today.

Instant messaging?

I got two as-is (but new) nursing twinsets, having given up on style. But one of them is a nice muted lime green, so I'm happy about that at least.


§ ita § - Aug 12, 2005 11:09:55 am PDT #7776 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I find it HIGHLY amusing that Adam West seems to have forever bogarted the voice of Batman

Oh, trust me -- when Batman isn't being campily gay, he sounds a lot like Bale or Clooney, depending on my precise mood.

I still don't have a summery dress!


Kat - Aug 12, 2005 11:11:37 am PDT #7777 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

be too very pink and summery for the office

No such thing!

I got an IM dress in the mail today.

Isaac Mizrahi.

And, what a cool number I have! If this were Vegas and the board were a slot machine, I would have just won enough to pay for dinner for a group of people.


Frankenbuddha - Aug 12, 2005 11:11:45 am PDT #7778 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Oh, trust me -- when Batman isn't being campily gay, he sounds a lot like Bale or Clooney, depending on my precise mood.

Wait, when did Clooney do a non-campily gay Batman movie?


P.M. Marc - Aug 12, 2005 11:13:02 am PDT #7779 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Isaac Mizrahi.

D'oh!


Daisy Jane - Aug 12, 2005 11:13:16 am PDT #7780 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I have a question. Doesn't this seem a little backwards? I mean shouldn't the couple who backed out be sued and not the show? It seems like the show did what it said it would do, but the couple turned out to be asshats.


DavidS - Aug 12, 2005 11:14:06 am PDT #7781 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Don't you think it's less useful a term for conversation than attraction or desire, though?

My gut feeling is that I dislike severing physical attraction from the romantic love equation. I think it's Paul-ist or something - distrusting the body. I think it is as valid a definition of love as any other we have. I don't much like the exalted love ideal as promulgated by Medieval troubadours which has dribbled on down to our century. I think a lot of western culture's notions about love are kind of pathological. Particularly in USian culture.

There's also some suspcion that the ideas of romantic love that don't factor in sexual attraction are either acts of bad faith or rationalizations.

In sum: I suspect that romantic love may be a subset of sex with a lot of higher cortical function dancing around madly trying to distract us from this unflattering truth.