Honestly, you meet the most appalling sort of people....

Giles ,'Chosen'


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.


Trudy Booth - Nov 02, 2005 6:44:09 am PST #701 of 10006
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Me, I have to wonder why and how my mother sat on the juiciest piece of family gossip EVER (and for my family, that's pretty juicy) for two weeks, waiting for it to come up.

Clearly you have the same moral fortitude what with not even giving us a HINT as to what the breathless scandal might be.


tommyrot - Nov 02, 2005 6:44:49 am PST #702 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Golden Gate Bridge suicide map

Tracked by number of suicides at each of the 128 light poles. For some reason there are far more suicides at light pole #69.


§ ita § - Nov 02, 2005 6:46:32 am PST #703 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Someone just asked me if the client wanted an n-dash or m-dash. It was all I could do to not run for the hills.

Don't keep us on tenterhooks! Which was it???

what the breathless scandal might be.

Well, you know, y'all aren't family. So it's different.

God damn, I'd love to be hungry again.


Jesse - Nov 02, 2005 6:49:19 am PST #704 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Some people really care about their dashes.


tommyrot - Nov 02, 2005 6:50:48 am PST #705 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

The Anticraft.

Punk knitting.

You're going to die anyway, so you might as well knit.


Sue - Nov 02, 2005 6:51:58 am PST #706 of 10006
hip deep in pie

I'm back from my interview at the CBC. The position is a new one, a combo of describing archival backlog and being a music librarian for the radio. They asked lots of challenging questions like "What two current local news stories would you preserve for 20 years in the future?" "How do you keep in touch with the local music scene?" "How will technological changes affect the music industry?" (Damn, I just thought of a better answer for that.)

The one question I couldn't answer was "Can you recommend any recent local new releases of Christmas music for an upcoming Xmas charity show?" WTF? Christmas music?

I wore the black pants and top with the teal blazer, and i felt appropriately dressed. They did make me wear a big honking orange VISITOR sticker on my jacket, however. It was ruining my look!


Jesse - Nov 02, 2005 6:54:15 am PST #707 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Wow, Sue, that sounds like a great job. Good luck!


Trudy Booth - Nov 02, 2005 6:58:03 am PST #708 of 10006
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Well, you know, y'all aren't family. So it's different

I get that. I do. And I respect it completely.

I'm just impressed with restraint.


Steph L. - Nov 02, 2005 6:59:44 am PST #709 of 10006
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

People! en-dashes and em-dashes signify completely different things!!!

The funniest part about the avian flu hysteria is that right now, it is just a lot of birds with the sniffles. That's a lot of money to spend on sneezy chickens and scare tactics.

I know, right? I said that this morning when NPR played the snippet of Bush's speech, where he said "Even though there IS NO global pandemic...."

So, there's no pandemic, there's no proof that it can be transmitted from human to human, and yet we should preemptively spend billions of dollars that we don't have?

WTF?!?


brenda m - Nov 02, 2005 7:00:48 am PST #710 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

Sue, that sounds so cool.

t CBC whore