Weird love's better than no love.

Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'


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.


Jesse - Mar 12, 2006 7:17:09 am PST #3480 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Instead of delightful breakfast foods, I am now eating a greek candy bar.


Scrappy - Mar 12, 2006 7:24:20 am PST #3481 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I felt just as you did, Kat. although I liked Depp a teensy bit more. A horrible mess of a movie, though.


beth b - Mar 12, 2006 7:30:52 am PST #3482 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

y'all have convinced me that I need breakfast. but I think a shower before I decide if breakfast is out or in


Sheryl - Mar 12, 2006 7:34:53 am PST #3483 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Happy Belated Birthday Tommy!


kat perez - Mar 12, 2006 7:36:25 am PST #3484 of 10001
"We have trust issues." Mylar

It wasn't that I disliked Depp, more so that I felt like he was phoning it in. He was relying on the fact that everyone knows that Johnny Depp is an impossibly sexy man, thus we'd think this character was as well without establishing it and selling it through, you know, acting, which is what he's getting paid to do. So sad, because it could've been a fabulous movie.

My girlfriend and I also had weird Big Daddy Kane flashes with the whole "How do you like me now?" moment at the end of the movie, which is not where I think the moviemakers were trying to take us. But there you go.


Jessica - Mar 12, 2006 7:38:25 am PST #3485 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Buh?

The Brooklyn House of Detention, bounded by Atlantic Avenue and the criminal courts building, is apparently headed into a mixed-use future.

Soon, it will house not only inmates and jail cells, but also, in a vision endorsed by the mayor, a 24,000-square-foot strip mall on the street level.

The biggest question may now be which businesses the Department of Correction, the property's landlord, will bring to this increasingly residential section of Boerum Hill.

City and borough officials have publicly suggested a high-end food store, a children's clothing outlet or law offices. But retailing experts, community groups and New York City business owners interviewed Friday had their own ideas.

"There's a tremendous amount of potential to sell what I call the nifty-gifties," said Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst for the NPD Group, a market research firm. "You have a captive audience, even with the visitors," he added. Forget boutique stores. "Think of it as more of an upscale airport gift shop."

Because what every jailhouse really needs is an upscale gift shop in the lobby.


DavidS - Mar 12, 2006 7:45:06 am PST #3486 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Heh. Thanks to Betsy's encouragement I'm making JZ watch Flash Gordon (the Queen one) and she's boggled by the satin, Brian Blessed's Big Blessedness, Sam Jones' maple-hard acting, Timothy Dalton's commanding manliness and speculation about how bored Brian May and Freddy Mercury must have been doing the score. ("We're supposed to build the tension here. How about we just hit the last key on the piano incessantly?" "Right!")

Quote of the morning: "You're flying blind on a rocket cycle?"


Fred Pete - Mar 12, 2006 7:45:43 am PST #3487 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

"Think of it as more of an upscale airport gift shop."

Egad. Or even better, good grief.


Tom Scola - Mar 12, 2006 7:46:30 am PST #3488 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Soon, it will house not only inmates and jail cells, but also, in a vision endorsed by the mayor, a 24,000-square-foot strip mall on the street level.

I'm still boggling over that, too, Jess. The only thing I could come up with was that maybe the property developers noticed that putting up luxury townhouses right next door to a jail might have a negative effect on property values.


Spidra Webster - Mar 12, 2006 7:50:13 am PST #3489 of 10001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

a 24,000-square-foot strip mall

It's a typo. The word "search" was omitted from between "strip" and "mall".