"This child is sponsored by Tim Minear"
Kat, add "of TV's hit Drive" and you may have something there.
Please...Wesley...why can't I stay?
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
aurelia - Jan 03, 2007 10:05:20 am PST #2734 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Zenkitty - Jan 03, 2007 10:07:49 am PST #2735 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Whoa. I just Googled Mom's friend, for no reason because I know he's dead, and found he was apparently a designer of rally equipment. Mac Cornforth. That's very cool.
Kat - Jan 03, 2007 10:09:23 am PST #2736 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
aurelia, good point. I'll add that into my email proposal.
juliana - Jan 03, 2007 10:10:19 am PST #2737 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Mom raced in rallies, I don't know what kind of car they drove. That's the kind where you're competing with other teams on a kind of scavenger hunt. She drove and her best friend Mac navigated. He was a cool English dude. I had a crush on him.
That is so frakkin' cool.
Zenkitty - Jan 03, 2007 10:34:50 am PST #2738 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Mom was pretty cool. I think she'd have liked Drive. Anything with cars going real fast, she liked.
Except NASCAR. I think she was more into Cannonball-Run type racing, where you might actually hit someone. Possibly some sublimated anger there.
Betsy HP - Jan 03, 2007 10:35:07 am PST #2739 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Do we mean sponsor as in "You can sponsor this child or you can turn the page", sponsor as in "This heartwarming child brought to you by Tim Minear", or sponsor as in N-step program? Because I think the last might be a tad premature.
This moment in bad taste brought to you by me, myself, and I.
Kat - Jan 03, 2007 10:40:31 am PST #2740 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
well, it would be entirely wrong to say the sponsored child was brought to us by Tim.
But, more like Nike sponsors the University of Tennessee women's basketball program.
Betsy HP - Jan 03, 2007 10:44:06 am PST #2741 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Excellent point. Otherwise, I'm imagining Tim with a basket full of fertilized eggs, sort of the Ova Bunny, and it's not a good look on him. [Nobody pipe up with which sort of gametes a boy bunny supplies, 'k? He's leaving them under CABBAGE LEAVES. In the GARDEN.]
The customized little Drive sneakers are cute, though. Maybe matching socks?
Kevin - Jan 03, 2007 11:43:07 am PST #2742 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Kat, add "of TV's hit Drive" and you may have something there.
In the UK, they are currently advertising Ugly Betty ALL THE TIME. The adverts refer to it as "US TV's hit Ugly Betty".
Cashmere - Jan 03, 2007 11:51:28 am PST #2743 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I'm a twin and it has almost always been a total joy having a wombmate.
That's what my twin sister calls me!
I've blacked out the memories of learning to drive a stick shift. It involved some screaming from my dad and me drifting through an intersection alternating with whiplash inducing jerks as I tried to get the car into first gear.
Now I drive DH's manual transmission truck all the time and love it.