Rolling Stone take on Scientology: [link]
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
tommyrot - Feb 27, 2006 7:18:42 pm PST #37 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.
Sean K - Feb 27, 2006 7:29:24 pm PST #38 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Feh. I walk away for a phone call, miss the turnover, and barely make it into the top fifty.
Rolling Stone take on Scientology
Not their first time, either. They did an expose a few years back, including the religion's effect and influence on Tom Cruise and John Travolta.
Hayden - Feb 27, 2006 8:02:39 pm PST #39 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Someone posted a website in the last natter that provides a rough value for your house. Does anyone remember what that website is?
Spidra Webster - Feb 27, 2006 8:08:28 pm PST #40 of 10001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
zillow.com
Hayden - Feb 27, 2006 8:11:37 pm PST #41 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Thanks!
Spidra Webster - Feb 27, 2006 8:12:02 pm PST #42 of 10001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Re: backpacks.
A health specialist once rather callously (but truly) replied to me when I told her that I had trouble being regular about my physical therapy exercises: "Oh, you're just not in enough pain yet."
Pain makes it so that I wear my backpack with both straps now. I don't care if it looks geeky. I'm at the age where it is more important not to be in pain. Because when my RSI is bad, I can't work. And disability doesn't pay enough to live on and I don't want to go there again. Being able to hold a job is more important than looking fashionable.
When I was in junior high, my mom bought me a tote on wheels for my books. Kids made fun of me mercilessly for using it and eventually I went back to using a backpack. Oddly enough, I see kids from the school near where I work using airport totes fairly often. And no one seems to make fun of them. So yay them. It's stupid the things we humans do to one another.
aurelia - Feb 27, 2006 8:27:13 pm PST #43 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Aww, my nephew has been COMMed. Hey Daniel, I just noticed a typo (hey, I just copy & pasted what my SiL wrote) in that story. Would you mind changing "What a tortoise?" to "What's a tortoise?"?
§ ita § - Feb 27, 2006 8:39:01 pm PST #44 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That's a very cute nephew (I originally typed tortoise, but I think I'm krav addled right now).
My TiVo can't change to FOX11. Which means a) need to change settings b) missed 24 again.
Allyson - Feb 27, 2006 8:42:25 pm PST #45 of 10001
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
P.M. Marc - Feb 27, 2006 8:44:34 pm PST #46 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
Lillian is so totally looking him up in 18 years. What a cutiehead!
I love his expression in that picture. He looks so very wary!