Lovely, lovely!
I soo would love a Buffista poetry reading night.
Hello? Gay now!
Willow ,'Showtime'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
kat perez - Jan 16, 2006 11:25:16 am PST #441 of 10002
"We have trust issues." Mylar
Connie Neil - Jan 16, 2006 11:31:44 am PST #442 of 10002
brillig
so an orange is a "golden apple".
Kallisti!
Ginger - Jan 16, 2006 11:38:53 am PST #443 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
"Humble pie" was once nomble pie, a pie made of nombles, i.e., organ meat such as the heart, lungs, liver and intestines. The theory is that it went from "a nomble" to "an omble" and then was conflated with an entirely different word, humble.
Jesse - Jan 16, 2006 11:44:33 am PST #444 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I've refrained from commenting on the fact that she has worn the same dress everyday since April.
Good LORD. I had a boss who wore the same colors all the time, so it was a little confusing, but she usually didn't wear the actual same dress more than twice or three times in a week.
I am, per usual, covetous of ita's eyebrows.
I am also exhausted from my shopping trip. I did very good, pretty much only buying things I actually need, but I really can't resist looking at every single thing for sale at Target. Oy.
In metanalysis news, "mine Ed" turns into "my Ned." I guess that's not actually news, but it's all I've got.
Allyson - Jan 16, 2006 11:47:35 am PST #445 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
Dear opera singer who moved into the apartment above mine,
I hate you.
Sincerely,
Allyson
Ginger - Jan 16, 2006 11:48:57 am PST #446 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I once lived above a person who was learning to play the violin. I hated her too.
Kat - Jan 16, 2006 11:49:47 am PST #447 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Aw, Allyson, there should be a clause that on days off there should be no opera singing. Need to escape? We're going to Roscoe's to meet people at 6:00. Wanna come?
Man my right hip is hating me right now.
Kathy A - Jan 16, 2006 11:50:53 am PST #448 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Same thing with Nell ("mine Ell[en]") and Nan ("mine Ann").
Not metanalysis, but the word "goodbye" came from the abbreviation of "God be with you".
I'm having a fun time poking around this site for history of the English language stuff.
Scrappy - Jan 16, 2006 11:52:42 am PST #449 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Allyson, I am of the opinion that Roscoe's is the PERFECT celebration dinner.
JZ - Jan 16, 2006 11:56:09 am PST #450 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.
Little ita's toddler butt is just so damn cute. 1980 ita is amazing for just how much she is already grown-up ita -- the eyes, the set of the mouth, the knowingness of her gaze: they're all exactly the ita I've seen over and over in grown-up pictures, and met (all too briefly) at the LA F2F. So present, so complete already.
The favorite poems... so good, so gorgeous. My own favorite poem, Google tells me, is nowhere online at all; it's called "Beauty," by Stephen Dobyns. It's long and horribly painful and grotesquely beautiful, and IMO in many ways it's a dark, bitter modern sister to my second favorite poem, and shit, now I'm crying, having read both of them.
And now, Nilly, the end of my second favorite poem will forever after also make me think of you, now that I know the Hebrew word for "orange."