Mal: You were dead! Tracy: Hunh? Oh. Right. Suppose I was. Hey there, Zoe.

'The Message'


Natter .38 Special  

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.


DavidS - Aug 27, 2005 7:50:51 am PDT #1653 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I don't remember being MTV in the early 1980s, either.

And yet you were! How do you explain that?


§ ita § - Aug 27, 2005 7:54:13 am PDT #1654 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Mmm. UnderArmour. Love the stuff.


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 27, 2005 8:01:41 am PDT #1655 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Note to self: invest for the stockholder annual report brochure potential, if for no other reason.


Jesse - Aug 27, 2005 8:46:58 am PDT #1656 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I am continually amazed at you west coasters who always seem to be awake at ungodly hours. Do you never sleep?

I know, right?

Jesse-- is there any more to this story?

Not really. He (Pacey from TV's Dawson's Creek) was at a party thrown by the theater company she (my friend) has been working for. She turned down the blow.

I could not figure out who that was!

The "Fug on..." headline is a shoutout to "Wild on..." By which I mean, Taradise.


Jesse - Aug 27, 2005 8:51:31 am PDT #1657 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh, and GOOD LUCK, New Orleans-istas and families.


Lee - Aug 27, 2005 9:18:33 am PDT #1658 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Oh, and GOOD LUCK, New Orleans-istas and families.

What Jesse said.

I am continually amazed at you west coasters who always seem to be awake at ungodly hours. Do you never sleep?

One advantage to getting up early is that when you realize after a few hours of futzing around that the closest thing you have to food in the house is the remainder of the peaches you bought at last week's farmer's market, you can run to the store and still be early enough to miss the Saturday rush.

Also, nap time comes that much sooner.


-t - Aug 27, 2005 9:26:14 am PDT #1659 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

-t, are you guys evacuating with the hurricane?

Just saw this, Dana. Yes we are. I think we're leaving around 3am tomorrow morning. We reserved a room near one of the Houston airports for tomorrow and Monday nights. You folks are getting out, I hope?

Glad to see you're okay, Laura!


bon bon - Aug 27, 2005 9:34:25 am PDT #1660 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Still watching the Current channel. It's completely goofy, but that makes it kind of appealing. And by 90s earnestness I do mean the kind of, "the economy will always be strong, young people have invented a new world-changing paradigm, peace is breaking out all over, global unity rah rah" that collapsed in 2001/02.

It's adorable!


Dana - Aug 27, 2005 9:41:35 am PDT #1661 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

We reserved a room near one of the Houston airports for tomorrow and Monday nights.

Oh, good. Call us if you need anything. We're fairly close to Hobby, but I'm also not all that far from Intercontinental at work, and I'll be at work Monday.

You folks are getting out, I hope?

As far as I know. I haven't talked to them today, but yesterday, the plan was Meridian, MS, and Memphis if necessary. It's not my parents that I'm worried about, but my grandparents and great-aunt. And the dog.


-t - Aug 27, 2005 9:47:03 am PDT #1662 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Coo, I still have your number in my cell phone. I may very well call, the organizatiional part of my brain is worrying instead of planning, I have a feeling I will somehow not have everything I'm supposed to have.

The grandparents don't go with the parents? It's a strongly advised voluntary evacuation at this point with special needs assistance available according to the TV.