That's the thrill of living in the Hellmouth! There's a veritable cornucopia of fiends and devils and ghouls to engage ... Pardon me for finding the glass half-full.

Giles ,'Same Time, Same Place'


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.


Lee - Sep 11, 2005 4:08:45 pm PDT #6478 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

HEATHER!

I skipped, since I spent the day driving first along the coast and then through the hills just next to the coast. It was hella beautiful, and there was pie.

How were people's days?


Nora Deirdre - Sep 11, 2005 4:11:03 pm PDT #6479 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Heather! How are you? How are your people? How are things in your neck of the woods? You have been in my thoughts.


Daisy Jane - Sep 11, 2005 4:11:24 pm PDT #6480 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

HI!

My day was long. I had to work at the store and there were no customers. I tried on hats instead.

I took Oz outside and he found a stick. This means he can happily chew on his stick instead of my knitting or my shoes. It's a magical stick.


Gus - Sep 11, 2005 4:17:14 pm PDT #6481 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

Ahem. Possibly not on your radar.

Heather is cruel, in a voluptuous, can't-touch-this sort of way.


DavidS - Sep 11, 2005 4:18:52 pm PDT #6482 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I took Oz outside and he found a stick. This means he can happily chew on his stick instead of my knitting or my shoes. It's a magical stick.

I think Oz is a Zen Master.


Daisy Jane - Sep 11, 2005 4:19:37 pm PDT #6483 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

My people are good. A big chunk is now down at the lake with my grandparents (I'm sure I've told y'all a billion times about our little "family compound" that consists of half a dozen double wides on a dirt road near Toledo bend. They're staying in the ones with extra rooms or the extra trailer we had.) Cyn and her husband are either in Houston or Alabama right now visiting relatives, but when they're done with that, a friend has offered them his house in Gainsville to live rent free until they figure out what to do. The Silversmith's is still paying Cyn and Cobalt is still paying Kevin, so they'll be fine.

We have, I think, 23,000 evacuees here, many of whom have called my work looking for help. One of the agencies who are supposed to be helping them called the other day to offer us pamphlets listing services and what to do and stuff. The lady asked how many I might need 500, 1000? I told her at least 1000, so then she said she had them in English and Spanish, and might I need any Spanish. I said, maybe some, but Cajun French might be more helpful. She said they didn't have any in French, but that she'd pass it up that they might need some. I look like a goddamned Klingon from whapping my head on the desk.


Lee - Sep 11, 2005 4:19:49 pm PDT #6484 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

While I was gone, my Tivo decided I wanted to see a Nature program about John Denver rafting the Colorado River and composing a song.

Short.Bus.Tivo. IJS.


Gus - Sep 11, 2005 4:26:39 pm PDT #6485 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

I am all about Rome, The Wire, Six-Feet Under, and Deadwood.

I am HBO's willing bitch.


DavidS - Sep 11, 2005 4:27:55 pm PDT #6486 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

What do you like about Rome, Gus? It's getting decent reviews but I don't have a sense of it. Which era is it set in?


Nutty - Sep 11, 2005 4:31:49 pm PDT #6487 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

All I know about Rome is that it involves togas, and frontal nudity, and possibly prancing.

Someone on my LJ friendslist asked whether people in the Roman era really shaved their armpits, e.g., and the classicist who is also on my friendslist noted that the Romans did not shave; mostly, they plucked body hair or singed it back to the root to get that cool, hairless look. Yipe!

Of course, these were also people who had no problem with barfing. Historical folks, they are strange.