Jayne: That's a good idea. Good idea. Tell us where the stuff's at so I can shoot you. Mal: Point of interest? Offering to shoot us might not work so well as an incentive as you might imagine.

'Out Of Gas'


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.


Burrell - Aug 17, 2005 1:23:08 pm PDT #8949 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Relieving infantile constipation is not a conversation I'm currently braced to read while eating curry.

ha! must have skipped over that part of the discussion.


aurelia - Aug 17, 2005 1:55:07 pm PDT #8950 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Hm. I seem to have missed lunch. I tend not to get hungry on non-work days. I'm thinking supermarket sushi for dinner, though.


Glamcookie - Aug 17, 2005 1:59:54 pm PDT #8951 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

For lunch I had a tuna sandwich, baked Lays, baby carrots, and chocolate chip cookies for dessert. My favorite lunch is the salad Nicoise from Le Petit Cafe near work. It is so good. Actually everything I've ordered at Le Petit is good. Their crab cakes are YUMMY.


§ ita § - Aug 17, 2005 2:03:07 pm PDT #8952 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The Banana Republic web site SUCKS. Thankfully I'm not shopping, just collecting pictures, but why list clothes that aren't for sale? I mean -- it's on a computer, right? Take it off the screen if I can't buy it, you very mean people.

Mean to people who aren't surfing for pictures, I mean. Since I did gank photos.


Typo Boy - Aug 17, 2005 2:04:49 pm PDT #8953 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Ethiopian flat bread is one of the world's few foods I don't like. Always tastes to me like it was soaked in vinegar. (Maybe I have not had the good version or something.) I like just about every other Ethiopian food I've tried though.


Vortex - Aug 17, 2005 2:11:23 pm PDT #8954 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I like the tang of the injera. It works well with the spiciness of the food. I think that it's not designed to be eaten on its own.


Typo Boy - Aug 17, 2005 2:15:27 pm PDT #8955 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Maybe the version of the food I had it with was too mildly spiced - overcome by the bread.


DavidS - Aug 17, 2005 2:21:54 pm PDT #8956 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I haven't eaten Ethiopian food for a while, though I do love it. I'm down with anything stewish or saucy.

I had the cuban sandwich for lunch and then an organic fruit smoothie. 'Twas good.

Then I spent too long lunchtime skimming through Sean Wilsey's tell-all memoir Oh the Glory Of It All.

It was very entertaining, and I recommend it for people who like stories about high society and Big Drama and slightly nutty rich people, or skating or boarding school or San Francisco in the 70s and 80s or bitchy paybacks. It's well-written. Wilsey is in with the Eggers/McSweeney crowd.

There was a lot of aftermath locally, as his evil stepmother is the doyenne of San Francisco society. Plus Danielle Steel.


JenP - Aug 17, 2005 2:26:33 pm PDT #8957 of 10002

Ethiopian food is the one kind I've not had luck with. The first time, I bit into the hottest pepper EVER and couldn't taste anything for the rest of my lifethe meal. The second time I could taste the bread long enough to realize it was too spongey for me to enjoy, because it remined me of, well, a sponge. I'd try it again, but so far... not so much with the liking.


Theodosia - Aug 17, 2005 2:31:53 pm PDT #8958 of 10002
'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"

The last time I had injera, it was the greyish kind, which I kind of liked. It turns out to be made with this rare only-grown-in-Ethiopia pseudo-grain, which name I can't remember just now.