I recommend answering your cell phone periodically with the phrase "Hello? Oh, yes, Mr. President. It's quite an honor to speak to you."
"Copy that, Mountaineer."
It's possible that he's in the land of perpetual Wednesday, or the crazy melty land, or you know, the world without shrimp.
Anya ,'Showtime'
Natter 40: The Nice One
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.
shrift - Nov 03, 2005 6:39:48 am PST #1009 of 10006
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
brenda m - Nov 03, 2005 6:40:05 am PST #1010 of 10006
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I, on the other hand, walked into the office this morning to discover some jackhole with a backhoe had severed the network connection between our buildings, and thus we get to spend ALL DAY hooking up the studio across the street with firewire drives full of files
Hmm. Was Mayor Daley involved? He's been known to settle disputes by way of midnight backhoe.
We have both kinds of cranberry - the fresh and the canned jelly, always left in the shape of the can with the rings.
Lee - Nov 03, 2005 6:42:16 am PST #1011 of 10006
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
ita, are you looking for your migraine? I think I found it.
§ ita § - Nov 03, 2005 6:44:28 am PST #1012 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Take good care of it, will you?
flea - Nov 03, 2005 6:45:09 am PST #1013 of 10006
information libertarian
What, you want it back later in good condition?
shrift - Nov 03, 2005 6:45:25 am PST #1014 of 10006
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
shrift, Dana, seriously? I'm impressed neither one of you is on a homicidal rage by now. Actually homicidal, I mean.
I don't know why I'm not strangling people with my bare hands right now. I suspect that I'm saving it up for tomorrow, when they make me participate in some horrifying skit about synergy. That's when I'll flip out like a mammal.
Or walk off the job. That could be fun.
TomW - Nov 03, 2005 6:46:37 am PST #1015 of 10006
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
Awesome. You know, she's a techie who doesn't play by the rules. Her partner was three days from retirement when that backhoe driver ran him over. Now she's out for revenge, and god help the people who get in her way.
"Buzz, whirr..."
In a world of drives... drives made of FIRE! She's going to hook them up... ANY WAY SHE CAN!
"Nooooooooooooo!"
Backhoe: The Revenge. Fall 2005. The network *will* be severed.
Dana - Nov 03, 2005 6:46:45 am PST #1016 of 10006
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
You should come down with bird flu and be tragically unable to attend the retreat.
§ ita § - Nov 03, 2005 6:50:42 am PST #1017 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What, you want it back later in good condition?
Well, I know I'm getting it back, so I don't want it smelly or dented or anything.
Betsy HP - Nov 03, 2005 6:52:40 am PST #1018 of 10006
If I only had a brain...
FUCK. Now my short-range (i.e. computer) vision is screwed up.