It was Saffron?! I spent a good deal of the show wondering, inbetween laughing hard. It's the first time I've seen them reach for the comedy, for sure. When Danny & Jack played Rock Paper Scissors for who had to go talk to the crazy girl ("It's an FBI thing," they assured the cop) I had to stop the TiVo to recover.
Atherton: Half the men in this room wish you were on their arm, tonight. Inara: Only half. I must be losing my indefinable allure.
'Shindig'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
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.
Theodosia - Mar 10, 2006 1:59:17 am PST #3145 of 10001
'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"
Lee - Mar 10, 2006 2:46:58 am PST #3146 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I thought so, Theodosia, though it doesn't say so in her (Christina Hendricks) imdb entry yet.
I loved the Rock paper scissors part too.
tommyrot - Mar 10, 2006 3:03:14 am PST #3147 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Jackson was ordered to shut down his Neverland Valley Ranch on Thursday by California authorities who have fined the pop star $169,000 for failing to pay his employees or maintain proper insurance.
Jackson's sprawling ranch in the central California foothills was closed, at least temporarily, by an agent of the State Labor Commissioner after the office discovered that his worker's compensation policy had lapsed in January.
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Jackson on Thursday was fined $69,000, or $1,000 per employee, for allowing his insurance to lapse. Earlier this week, authorities cited him for violating state labor law by failing to pay at least 30 employees since December of 2005. A letter for that citation imposes a $100,000 fine and demands that he make good on $306,000 in unpaid wages.
Stupid King of Pop....
Theodosia - Mar 10, 2006 3:05:15 am PST #3148 of 10001
'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"
The episode started to go South (comedically speaking) when Martin walked in carrying a large box of letters labelled DERANGED (or something like that) that he had to go through.
The guy called "Pookie Bear" (addressed at least once by Jack as Mr. Bear) should have been a tipoff, in retrospect.
Any episode that ends with bowling Mafia and FBI agents singing "When the moon hits your eye (like a big pizza pie)" is a good episode. I'm glad the producers don't do this all the time, but stories that end happy have to be a real relief for real world investigators, too.
TomW - Mar 10, 2006 3:08:37 am PST #3149 of 10001
"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."
Stupid King of Pop....
I thought Pop was now a republic, with an elected non-executive President (or Head of Pop, if you will) and a bicameral parliamentary system.
I might be getting Pop confused with Germany, though.
Fred Pete - Mar 10, 2006 3:29:11 am PST #3150 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Stupid King of Pop
I think there's been a revolution. James Blunt is now the King of Pop.
Sue - Mar 10, 2006 4:08:01 am PST #3151 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I liked the biker jacket with the ruching (sp?).
I tripped over my headphone cord (and got my foot tanbgle in it) this morning and now one of the speakers is dead. They're still under warranty, but I don't think Sony will fix them. Wah!
tommyrot - Mar 10, 2006 4:24:52 am PST #3152 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I thought Pop was now a republic, with an elected non-executive President (or Head of Pop, if you will) and a bicameral parliamentary system.
I think there's been a revolution. James Blunt is now the King of Pop.
It makes me miss the good ol' days of the Presley dictatorship - at least he made the Mystery Trains run on time....
Theodosia - Mar 10, 2006 4:39:53 am PST #3153 of 10001
'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"
is so out of it she doesn't know who James Blunt is
on reflection, may be proud of that
tommyrot - Mar 10, 2006 4:40:21 am PST #3154 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Um... why is there not more outrage?
In the latest New Yorker, Michael Specter has a positively chilling story on how theoconservatives and Christianists have waged a quiet war against some critical vaccines, especially against Human papillomavirus or HPV. A vaccine exists against this virus that would drastically reduce the numbers of cervix cancer cases. The religious right opposes it as a mandatory childhood vaccination, because it removes a disincentive to having sex:
"Religious conservatives are unapologetic; not only do they believe that mass use of an HPV vaccine or the availability of emergency contraception will encourage adolescents to engage in unacceptable sexual behavior; some have even stated that they would feel similarly about an H.I.V. vaccine, if one became available. 'We would have to look at that closely,' Reginald Finger, an evangelical Christian and a former medical adviser to the conservative political organization Focus on the Family, said. 'With any vaccine for H.I.V., disinhibition' - a medical term for the absence of fear - 'would certainly be a factor, and it is something we will have to pay attention to with a great deal of care.' Finger sits on the Centers for Disease Control's Immunization Committee, which makes those recommendations."
Specter has a Q and A about the article here. These people would rather people die of AIDS and cancer than do anything to "encourage" sexuality. And they have the cojones to call the Democrats the "party of death."