Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.

'Time Bomb'


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.


Spidra Webster - Mar 11, 2006 1:52:31 pm PST #3406 of 10001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

Where do you live, Laura, the Sahara? If it's cold in NoCal, I can't imagine it being that warm too many other places in the US right now...


meara - Mar 11, 2006 1:57:35 pm PST #3407 of 10001

Spidra, it was 78 yesterday and supposed to be 77 tomorrow, in DC. (Not sure what the high today was, but something nice). California is just unlucky at the moment!


Spidra Webster - Mar 11, 2006 2:18:11 pm PST #3408 of 10001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

Wow. The weather is just topsy-turvy. Well, I'm happy to have the weather we have rather than the hot humidity I hear y'all get.


Jessica - Mar 11, 2006 2:18:16 pm PST #3409 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

NYC's been in the mid-60's the past couple of days too.


Laura - Mar 11, 2006 2:25:42 pm PST #3410 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

Spidra, I'm far far away from NoCal in SE Florida. I always expect it to be warm when I go to CA, but then it gets cold at night and surprises me.


Jesse - Mar 11, 2006 2:54:05 pm PST #3411 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

The first time I went to SF, it was August and I froze the entire time. I liked it, though.

I want to stay home tonight so badly. Argh. But no -- a good friend is having a celebration in triplicate (over illness, half birthday, and rabbinical school acceptance) and I need to go.


Strega - Mar 11, 2006 4:09:14 pm PST #3412 of 10001

Did the FEMA people get new jobs helping Glark run the technical side of TwoP?

When the forums were down Thursday, Glark was running a program to convert old posts to the new board. It only got halfway done overnight, so he decided to put the forums back online Friday, rather than keeping them down for another day, and then finish the conversion Saturday morning. There was an announcement beforehand, but I do think he should post that stuff on the home page so that it's harder to miss.


Jessica - Mar 11, 2006 5:42:31 pm PST #3413 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I think I just watched Dubya's favorite movie of all time on TCM. It's called Gabriel Over the White House -- in it, a young brash President is elected, and begins his term planning to be a good Party man, when he gets into a car accident and goes into a coma. During his coma, he gets visited by the Angel Gabriel who either takes over his body, or just hangs around giving him advice (the special effects in 1933 were not sufficiently advanced to make this entirely clear). His first act is to fire his entire cabinet. His second is to "cut through the red tape" and declare martial law, which shuts down Congress. (The Supreme Court is conveniently never mentioned at all.) He creates a secret police who go around arresting subtextually gay gangsters and executing them in front of firing squads. Then he brings all the European leaders together on a yacht and demands that they repay their debts to alleviate the Depression, which they agree to do after being guilt-tripped about WWI. He then gets everyone to sign a treaty to the effect of "America's in charge, so we all have to play nice," and dies with the legacy of being the Greatest President Evar.

It's....amazing. Dubya must watch this movie every night before he goes to bed.


dcp - Mar 11, 2006 5:45:34 pm PST #3414 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Second night of T-storms in a row here, third night in the last four. On-site reports of golfball- and baseball-sized hail about six miles south of me. Couple of tornado warnings within twenty miles that sound like they might be real instead of hyperbole.

Spring weather. Such fun.


meara - Mar 11, 2006 5:51:39 pm PST #3415 of 10001

And that's the end of the movie? There's no...moral that maybe declaring martial law might be bad? How chillling! "GOD wants us to be right!"