So, how was your summer? Mine was fun. Saw some fish. Went mad with hunger. Hallucinated a whole bunch.

Angel ,'Conviction (1)'


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.


Steph L. - Oct 04, 2006 5:51:37 am PDT #2002 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Bioqueen! It's the hot new thing.

You have no idea! It really is!

I could *totally* bioqueen!

Studio 60 -- I haven't watched this week's episode yet, but last week's had a line from Matt about how it was 100 degrees at 8 p.m., and the audience waiting outside, etc., and then something about how it was half an hour until the show started. I just assumed it was live for the East Coast at 11:30 and tape-delay for the West Coast.


Jesse - Oct 04, 2006 6:00:22 am PDT #2003 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Grr. [work rant excised]

Seriously. I just had to go into my friend's office and shut the door to rant about how I swear I know more about some other people's jobs than they do, and WTF.


§ ita § - Oct 04, 2006 6:54:37 am PDT #2004 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I would be stung if people were getting snippy with me about things that turned out to be me in the wrong. But that's more about me being wrong than about the snip, though that doesn't help.

I also do try very hard not to be snippy during the work day. Which even extends to krav. Perhaps that's why the persistent migraines--because the rest of the world is annoying.


msbelle - Oct 04, 2006 6:56:02 am PDT #2005 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

ita and I are of one moody today.

EVERYTHING is driving me crazy. I occasionally get like this where all background noise just makes my skin crawl. I am wearing headphones as a result.


Pix - Oct 04, 2006 6:58:27 am PDT #2006 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

EVERYTHING is driving me crazy. I occasionally get like this where all background noise just makes my skin crawl. I am wearing headphones as a result.

I wonder if I could teach all day with headphones? That sounds like bliss right now, as I am in a similarly foul mood. Stupid Vicoden hangover.


Jessica - Oct 04, 2006 7:01:14 am PDT #2007 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Must be something in the air. I'm antsy and irritable too.

At least it's noon. One more hour until lunch.


msbelle - Oct 04, 2006 7:03:30 am PDT #2008 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

oh except that I am snippy.

mad at myself is so much worse than mad at others, but today I am sick of both.


sarameg - Oct 04, 2006 7:15:01 am PDT #2009 of 10001

I'm just tired.


Trudy Booth - Oct 04, 2006 7:18:32 am PDT #2010 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

On Studio 60 I suspect that one of the problems they're having is its hard enough to write edgy topical humor when you're commenting on things that are actually happening in real time -- and that part of the reason it is so effective is that people have been perseverating about those topics all day/week and you are now exposing their humor.

They're trying to make up a situation, make us care about it, then nail it comedically. Granted, they're using "events" that are very similar to actual events we've experienced -- but they're forced to be vague and one of the first rules of comedy is that specificity is funny.

I don't think the obstacle is insurmountable and I bet they find their way around it.


Allyson - Oct 04, 2006 7:54:45 am PDT #2011 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

Fair and Balanced?