Nilly, that is an absolutely beautiful essay. Thank you so much for sharing.
JZ, I'm not saying anything either. Nuh-uh.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, O SCOLA-EST OF TOMS!!!!!
Harken: You fought with Captain Reynolds in the war? Zoe: Fought with a lot of people in the war. Harken: And your husband? Zoe: Fight with him sometimes, too.
'Bushwhacked'
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.
juliana - Apr 03, 2006 6:55:47 am PDT #8156 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
erikaj - Apr 03, 2006 6:58:44 am PDT #8157 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Happy Birthday, Tom Scola.
brenda m - Apr 03, 2006 7:00:35 am PDT #8158 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Laughter is the best medicine?
I think I prefer the earlier study that showed being a grumpy bitch was good for your health.
TomW - Apr 03, 2006 7:04:48 am PDT #8159 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."
Laughter is the best medicine?
"Now, I'm going to prescribe a new therapy for you. This is a booklet of mildy humourous golfing anecdotes. Read them. Have a chuckle. If there's no improvement in a week, I'll call in a prescription for something funnier."
JZ - Apr 03, 2006 7:08:56 am PDT #8160 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.
juliana, dude, if there were news, there'd be, you know, news. With an announcement. This, sadly, is either Emmett's mom's jolly stomach virus or just the emotional wreckage of a week spent knotted up in various-sized stressballs waiting for Hec's fuckwit ex-bosses to tip their hand and finally become ex-bosses.
Man, last week sucked. I don't think I realized just how much it sucked until it was over. Ass-clenchy, teeth-grindy, whoops-there-goes-my-stomach-lining sucked.
TomW - Apr 03, 2006 7:09:28 am PDT #8161 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."
Cereal:
"Do you have any allergies to puns, farce, parodies or tomfoolery?"
sarameg - Apr 03, 2006 7:11:25 am PDT #8162 of 10001
I need need need to find Pinky and the Brain figures for my brother. I looked up the abstract on the poster he presented yesterday, and other than the fact that a lot of the words and references in it are quite new to me (um, NAcSarGlyValDalloIleThrNvaIleArgProNHE, anyone ? How about angiogenesis or intracerebral xenograft model of glioblastoma?) , I managed to gather that my brother is futzing with tumorific mouse brains. Well, and killing mice. But anyway.
Fred Pete - Apr 03, 2006 7:18:03 am PDT #8163 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
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.
DC is that way for the Presidential Inauguration. It's a federal holiday, but only in DC and only if the government would otherwise be open. (So if it's, say, a Saturday, we don't get the previous Friday off.)
JZ - Apr 03, 2006 7:30:24 am PDT #8164 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.
Angiogenesis I've actually heard of, I think, and the intracerebral xenograft thingie I think I can more or less stumble through, but that NASCAR glyval-whatsit -- buh?
However, Pinky and the Brain for your bro.
Allyson - Apr 03, 2006 7:36:41 am PDT #8165 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
Happy birthday Mr. Scola!