Wayne Brady is right up there. I may need to bust out the DVDs and watch these again.
When you look back at this, in the three seconds it'll take you to turn to dust, I think you'll find the mistake was touching my stuff.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
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.
Glamcookie - Oct 03, 2006 7:54:56 am PDT #1816 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Nilly - Oct 03, 2006 7:56:05 am PDT #1817 of 10001
Swouncing
Hearing the dirt hit the coffin, the hollow thump? Worked just as well, and just as chillingly. I was not expecting that.
In a fully strict religious Jewish funeral, unless there's something to prevent it, there is no casket. OK, I'm whitefonting now. It's difficult for me to type, so not everybody should be exposed to reading this: The body is wrapped in a simple white fabric. It looks so small, there's nothing that delivers so pointedly, to me, the extent of the fragility of the flesh, the weakness, and the this-can't-be-all-there-is aspects of life and death. It's never not-chilling, it never fails to make me wonder how small the physical form of the person is, no matter how big and important their life was.
Also, we hardly ever put flowers on tombstones. Usually, we lay small stones there.
§ ita § - Oct 03, 2006 8:03:11 am PDT #1818 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ack! That would have laid me low, Nilly. I'm sorry to make you type difficult things, but glad to have the information.
Nilly - Oct 03, 2006 8:08:27 am PDT #1819 of 10001
Swouncing
I'm sorry to make you type difficult things, but glad to have the information.
No, it's OK. It's difficult for me because of *me*, you know? Especially after a day like yesterday, which was all about the spiritual (with the fast as a way to try and be less about the physical), it's a not-so-easy reminder. I guess I'm still in a bit of "thinking seriously about the Big Stuff" sort of mood.
Jesse - Oct 03, 2006 8:08:42 am PDT #1820 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Wow. That's kind of incredible. I mean in the good way, not the I-don't-believe-it way. I feel like the best thing end-of-life rituals can do is make you focus on the life lived, not on the trappings.
Lee - Oct 03, 2006 8:12:17 am PDT #1821 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Nilly! Hi! Did you see the Matilda (and Emmett) pictures in Beep me?
Sean K - Oct 03, 2006 8:13:02 am PDT #1822 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I know MM wants "God's Comic" by Elvis Costello played at his funeral. I do too, but recently there have been other songs I wanted more.
Unfortunately, I just can't remember what songs they are at the moment, as I've had only about three hours of fitfull sleep.
Nilly - Oct 03, 2006 8:18:44 am PDT #1823 of 10001
Swouncing
Jesse, exactly.
Lee! Oh, yes, of course! Thank you! How wonderful of you to ask, too!
They were absolutely adorable, both of them. The expression on Emmett's face, and that little bundle, and - oh, thank you so much for sharing those.
Aims - Oct 03, 2006 8:21:53 am PDT #1824 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I don't want a funeral. I want to be cremated and then I want an Irish Wake. Music and drinking and stories.
flea - Oct 03, 2006 8:28:17 am PDT #1825 of 10001
information libertarian
Wow. A Times reporter was in the private jet that was hit by a 747 (which crashed) over Brazil: [link]