Seattle is attractive to me too.
The thing is: I'm pretty confident that eventually I want to live in Chicago. But there's like ten years between now and that eventually that I want to fill with *interesting* stuff.
I can handle the Oz Full Monty. I mean, not 'handle' handle.
Xander ,'Help'
Spike's Bitches 28: For the Safety of Puppies...and Christmas!
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
esse - Feb 01, 2006 6:15:50 am PST #7115 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
beth b - Feb 01, 2006 6:18:41 am PST #7116 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Honolulu was my top spot.
followed by portland ,O, Little rock, Santa barbara, Santa Cruz, and Baltimore.
No Boston - which is where I would chose to go if I went back east. ( DC area second - but only if I got to work at the Smithsonian)
And while I think Santa Barbara is pretty, In a number of ways it reminds me of where I grew up. - a little isolated and insular...
-t - Feb 01, 2006 6:22:45 am PST #7117 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
My sister went to UCSB for a year and was miserable, so I find it hard to think of Santa Barbara in a positive way. I imagine the beaches aren't covered in oil and tar anymore...
beth b - Feb 01, 2006 6:49:52 am PST #7118 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
no tar and oil on the beaches -
I just had soft boiled eggs on toast a la Teppy . yum
Nicole - Feb 01, 2006 6:57:00 am PST #7119 of 10001
I'm getting the pig!
Gronk, gronk, gronkity, gronk
MG, I couldn't agree more.
Glad you made it home safe and sound, SA!
Patiently awaiting pics of vw after her salon day. Also patiently waiting for 12:30 so I can leave work and relax on a nice little lunch date before my re-finance closing at 2pm.
P.M. Marc - Feb 01, 2006 7:29:31 am PST #7120 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I think this: [link] is my absolute favorite of the responses to the Linda Hirshman article on SAHMs and feminism, for the take on the Nora Ephron butter quote alone.
Aims - Feb 01, 2006 8:19:39 am PST #7121 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
On the Philly Phront:
It looks like transferring with my current salary and bonus is a go. Now to see if Joe can transfer.
Still not sure what ~~ma to ask for.
brenda m - Feb 01, 2006 8:20:50 am PST #7122 of 10001
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
Wow, Aimee. Exciting.
And hang on a sec - I'm guessing getting your LA salary in Philadelphia will work out to a defacto raise. So yay again.
Gudanov - Feb 01, 2006 8:21:25 am PST #7123 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Well lots of mystery-ma then!
DavidS - Feb 01, 2006 8:23:36 am PST #7124 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So important I feel compelled to xpost it!
Sundance Channel Alert!
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"Slings & Arrows," second-season premiere 8 p.m. Feb. 19, first- season encore marathon 3 p.m. Feb. 18, Sundance Channel.
This Canadian import is searingly spot-on and seems effortlessly great, probably helped by having only six episodes per season.
Revolving around a group of actors at the New Burbage Theatre Festival (purveyors of all things Shakespeare), the series attempts to mix art with commerce, real life with drama. It focuses on Geoffrey (the superb Paul Gross), an actor turned director who ran a theater that stood on its values but never attracted an audience.
He was once as thick as thieves with his mentor, Oliver (Stephen Ouimette), and with the love of his life, fellow thespian (and aging star) Ellen (Martha Burns).
But the bitterly mean Oliver was killed while drunk (he now reappears in death) and Geoffrey had to put away thoughts of selling out and instead become artistic director of the New Burbage Festival, where he manages to pull off "Hamlet" despite myriad woes (Mark McKinney of "Kids in the Hall" and indie film guru Don McKellar also star).
In the second season, all hell continues to break loose while Geoffrey must stage "the most jinxed play in theatrical history" -- "Macbeth."
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Highly recommend this show to all Buffistas.