Happy Birthday, Tom!!
River: I didn't think you'd come for me. Simon: Well, you're a dummy.
'Serenity'
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.
ChiKat - Apr 03, 2006 6:19:14 am PDT #8146 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Jesse - Apr 03, 2006 6:19:57 am PDT #8147 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
vw, you know it's not that you get off for the marathon, but that the marathon is run on Patriot's Day, right? Like the St. Patrick's Day/Evacuation Day thing, only less lame.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 03, 2006 6:21:08 am PDT #8148 of 10001
What is even happening?
The word “familiar” had more meaning than the simplistic “been there done that”, but rather the much richer and deeper meaning of “am I not the only one who feels this way? How can you describe so accurately what goes on in my head and inside my guts?”That feeling still surprises (or thrills, or shocks) me, when it hits. I love how you put this, Nilly.
The characters were also real. Just like people, even though they could be described in a couple of words, just like I did above, this sort of description is lacking and pale. Just like in life, there are no “good” or “bad” characters. They all have their advantages and their weaknesses, interwoven in each other. I could support one of them in one storyline, be against them in another, and in repeat viewing contradict my former positions.I'm nodding so hard I'm afraid I'll hurt my neck.
A few years later, another show took the highschool world and managed to portray the world through it. Instead of describing the situations in a clear mirroring of reality, it chose a different path, and used the reversing of conception regarding these situations. So, when a teenager didn't go out in the evening to meet her friends, it really could be the end of the world. The show was called “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, but that's another story.I was waiting to see a BtVS reference, because although MSCL and BtVS were so different, their truths were not.
never stopped reading stories full of faraway imagination, or sliding into distant worlds every now and then, but even in them, now, I see more than more of myself, of the issues that bother my thoughts in my everyday life, the tiny as well as monumental indecisions which appear as a result of the small details. In every beloved tv story. under various plot disguises, I now find the common denominator of inner observation, honesty, and a search which is also a purpose in and of itself. Just like Angela of the last episode couldn't go back to being the girl she was on the first one, I myself can't watch tv in the same way ever since. The discovery of magic, depth and beauty that are so close by affected the gray routine, the distant adventures, the imagination and the mirroring of reality. And this, too, is my so called life.This is beautiful.
Nilly, did you ever get the show Freaks and Geeks?
tommyrot - Apr 03, 2006 6:21:30 am PDT #8149 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.
Ooh, the other two Toms are here!
Tom triplet powers - Activate!
Topic!Cindy - Apr 03, 2006 6:23:37 am PDT #8150 of 10001
What is even happening?
@@ Hush, you. There's been a rogue stomach virus running around the Bay Area for a bit now. Emmett's mom and her fiancé have been taking turns being sick as dogs for the past few weeks, and even though Emmett hasn't gotten sick himself (yet, knock wood), I would be shocked if he wasn't already toting little germy critters back and forth across the Bay.
Hush, what? I didn't say anything. *cough* I think I may have startled the Buffistas, though.
To-do List
make list
bookmark certain posts
strike off items as completed
sumi - Apr 03, 2006 6:28:21 am PDT #8151 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I guess that Bravo re-airing of Heist is in conflict with Doctor Who. . . but it looks like they're reairing on USA too.
I was sad to discover that Injustice is in trouble.
TomW - Apr 03, 2006 6:33:15 am PDT #8152 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."
Tom triplet powers - Activate!
Urgh. Tom triplet powers - sleepy!
Man, I hope the world stays out of peril today.
JZ - Apr 03, 2006 6:36:16 am PDT #8153 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
That is a brilliant to-do list.
My new To Do List:
Make to do list.
OMG, done already! I can totally blow off the entire rest of the week!
Nora Deirdre - Apr 03, 2006 6:48:44 am PDT #8154 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I know a lot of companies take off Patriot's Day because of the Marathon, due to it being a commuting HELLA NIGHTMARE AND PERIL AND OH NOES.
§ ita § - Apr 03, 2006 6:51:18 am PDT #8155 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Laughter is the best medicine?
They claim:
Berk said the results of this "anticipatory mirthful laughter experience, which is a kind of eustress or 'positive/good stress' event, builds on our earlier work and may constitute a real construct for what is the 'biology of hope.'"
I don't know--for me hope doesn't feel that good. But I may be too pessimistic.