Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.

Willow ,'Storyteller'


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.


Trudy Booth - Mar 15, 2006 7:42:43 am PST #3994 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Supergirl, Princess, and a Torah.

With that last one, great way to garner some VIP treatment. Very smart thinking.


sarameg - Mar 15, 2006 7:55:17 am PST #3995 of 10001

OK, I *just* figured out there are latin prefixes in the last 4 months' names. I'm feeling amazingly dim. I've probably been told this before, but it sure didn't stick. And I guess I'm glad, because I can only imagine how confused I might've been as a kindergartener or first grader. "But why is it the twelfth month if its name means ten?"


Jesse - Mar 15, 2006 7:56:57 am PST #3996 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It still confuses me when October isn't the 8th month. Which is, you know, all the time!


Sean K - Mar 15, 2006 8:00:36 am PST #3997 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

In Jamaica we don't have much weather--the temperatures are pretty constant, as are the thunderstorms.

Can you set your watch by them? "Here comes the 3:00pm thunderstorm...."

Yeah, but there's not much difference between the Julian and the Gregorian.

Well, they would really have noticed if their year was only 10 months long. I think July and August were renamed from something else, not added in.

Except that the Julian calendar wasn't the same as a year, so as time went on, it was getting more and more out of whack, hence the need for the Gregorians to fix it (at least, that's my understanding), so who knows when JC's March came.


Hil R. - Mar 15, 2006 8:22:04 am PST #3998 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Hi Nilly!

Purim Sameach!

I have no hamentashen, but my mother just called from the grocery store to ask what kind of hamentaschen I like, so I suspect I'll have some soon.

Supergirl, Princess, and a Torah. They fight crime.

That sounds so cute.

And, um possibly not work appropriate, but a Purim video that's been cracking me up all week: [link]


Jesse - Mar 15, 2006 8:25:21 am PST #3999 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OMG, that's hilarious.


Calli - Mar 15, 2006 8:29:45 am PST #4000 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Oooooh, noirish TV on DVD. [link]

Universal, Trio and Bravo are rolling out a line of "Brilliant But Cancelled" DVDs, and the first pair are coming out on May 16th. . . . EZ Streets will get it's own disc, and then separately is Crime Dramas, collecting a single episode each from 4 shows:
  • Touching Evil (2004, USA Network, produced by Bruce Willis)
  • Johnny Staccato (1959, NBC, produced by Everett Chambers)
  • Gideon Oliver (1989, ABC, produced by Dick Wolf)
  • Delvecchio (1976, CBS, produced by Steven Bochco)


Consuela - Mar 15, 2006 8:31:17 am PST #4001 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Gideon Oliver was brilliant but cancelled? Really? Huh.


Calli - Mar 15, 2006 8:32:25 am PST #4002 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I'm mostly buzzed about Johnny Staccato. I've only seen one episode (fate being what it is, probably the same episode as on the DVD set), but it looked fun.


Frankenbuddha - Mar 15, 2006 8:32:56 am PST #4003 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Johnny Staccato (1959, NBC, produced by Everett Chambers)

Woot!!! I can get totally psyched for a jazz-noir Cassavettes!