Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.

Buffy ,'Sleeper'


Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!  

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.


Aims - Jan 11, 2006 1:17:54 pm PST #9326 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Don't you mean "shiznits"?


§ ita § - Jan 11, 2006 1:22:38 pm PST #9327 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Fo shizzle, mah pionizzle!


Allyson - Jan 11, 2006 1:29:13 pm PST #9328 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

awesome. next essay. after i make tea.


JZ - Jan 11, 2006 1:30:12 pm PST #9329 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.

My preferential vote on the matter:

A. Lord, yes, it's funny.

If A fails to pass, then my vote should go to:

B. It is so.

And if B also fails, then:

C. Still funny. FUCKO.

ION, I think today has stopped in its tracks wherever it was and fallen over, just like everyone on Miranda. It's inertia-ing itself to death.


erikaj - Jan 11, 2006 1:35:23 pm PST #9330 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

Yeah. Kind of sick, but I like that, you know.


Theodosia - Jan 11, 2006 1:41:13 pm PST #9331 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I got to go home a half hour early? Does that count as a bright enough spot?

My roommate was recently diagnosed with diabetes, and has been having a whole bunch of nutritionist visits, classes in how to manage her diabetes and so on, which I would have thought would be routine. According to this NYTimes article, she is really getting an exception to the way most insurance companies want to handle that sort of illness:

[link]


Jessica - Jan 11, 2006 2:08:04 pm PST #9332 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Allyson, I like it.

Picture with me and AB from this morning.


Sue - Jan 11, 2006 2:08:15 pm PST #9333 of 10002
hip deep in pie

A purse for ita: [link]


Megan E. - Jan 11, 2006 2:11:23 pm PST #9334 of 10002

New eBay "greatest auction ever" item:

[link]


Topic!Cindy - Jan 11, 2006 2:11:59 pm PST #9335 of 10002
What is even happening?

Allyson, it is funny. It is really funny. It brings back wading through BBOvenGuy's stuff (but that only makes it funnier).