I'm so sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, my fun-time-Buffy party night involved watching a robot throw Spike through a window, so if you want to trade... no wait, I wouldn't give up that memory for anything.

Buffy ,'Get It Done'


Natter 39 and Holding  

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.


Nutty - Sep 29, 2005 8:53:13 am PDT #1998 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

John Roberts -- not Dave Roberts, as he is in my brain -- got confirmed, big surprise. (If he were Dave Roberts, we would have a genial mixed-race San Diego center-fielder leading the Supreme Court, and every decision would be in favor of Boston, and the justices would be required to sprint from chambers.) You know, politics, blah blah blah, but I would be a lot less uneasy about the guy if he ever blinked.

I think he is a robot. Think about it: Reaganite apparatchik, perfect grammar, failure to blink -- got to be a robot.

Eyeball clots are bad, but I too was thinking brain tumor, or else some exotic kind of retinopathy, which is only fun and dramatic when it happens to English policemen. (It was a TV series. He figured out he was going blind, in part, by crashing his car.) So, yay for only partial eyeball damage!

Tom, did the ophthalmologist say whether the vision problems could be corrected with lenses or anything? Or will it just be "You're standing in my blurry post -- ah, much better."


Jesse - Sep 29, 2005 8:54:12 am PDT #1999 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It's really hard to find a costume that's based on your own clothes that doesn't just look like you. Props or stuff you own but don't really wear (like formalwear) come in handy.


Kalshane - Sep 29, 2005 8:55:02 am PDT #2000 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

Today's (well, yesterday's) PVP references many Buffistas' TV woes: [link]

Also, strangely, I just found a very strange costume in my theatre stock which I can only assume is the Patchwork Girl of Oz. I said this to my students, and they didn't know who she was!

I'm with your students, I'm afraid.

If I get enough time off to make a costume, I want to make a creepy plastic head and crown and rent the clothes to become the Burger King.

Dude, if I saw anyone wearing that they'd risk getting staked. The Burger King creeps me out big time.

I'm invited to a costume party at the end of the month and I have no idea what I'm going to do. I suck at figuring out costumes. Last Halloween party I went to, I just wore my black trenchcoat and anytime someone asked me what I was supposed to be I would wave my fake sword at them and say "There can be only one."


Jesse - Sep 29, 2005 8:56:21 am PDT #2001 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

(If he were Dave Roberts, we would have a genial mixed-race San Diego center-fielder leading the Supreme Court,

Or Boreanaz's father the weatherman.


Connie Neil - Sep 29, 2005 8:57:16 am PDT #2002 of 10002
brillig

and be Martha. No, not that one. Washington. And not that one either.

Strangely enough, that Martha Washington often pops into my head when I think of ita.


bon bon - Sep 29, 2005 8:57:16 am PDT #2003 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

What was that show we were talking about months ago set in the near future where all the women wore purple wigs?


§ ita § - Sep 29, 2005 8:57:36 am PDT #2004 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Props or stuff you own but don't really wear (like formalwear) come in handy.

I could go as a princess. I think I thought about that last year. I'd just need a pretty white blouse to go with the pink ballgown skirt. And a tiara...


Aims - Sep 29, 2005 8:58:54 am PDT #2005 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.

You rang?


Jesse - Sep 29, 2005 8:59:11 am PDT #2006 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Miss Demeanor (pageant-style) is still my favorite costume of mine. Sadly, I was at a Beck concert, so hardly anyone saw it.


JZ - Sep 29, 2005 9:01:23 am PDT #2007 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Kalshane, this is The Patchwork Girl of Oz.

And here's her story.