Ah, the pitter patter of tiny feet in huge combat boots. Shut up!

Mal ,'War Stories'


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.


§ ita § - Nov 05, 2006 10:00:16 pm PST #7645 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Ah, musicians we never should have liked...

Journey != hair band.

You do know that no one said they were, right?

AmyLiz, I'm trying to remember the names in the TV movie, and am a little confused. I think Virginia never lived in the house, but almost slept with the husband of the second couple to move in. That wife killed herself--perhaps as a response to the near infidelity, and certainly related to her house-exacerbated despair over her son being killed in Iraq. The first couple--the husband shoves his pregnant wife down the stairs and she loses the baby. The third couple happens like you said--control freak, party, and the wife kills him and herself. Col and Walker adopt the kid. Also, the architect comes back and buys the house. Col and Walker go in to destroy it, and end up killing him in the explosion.


Cass - Nov 05, 2006 10:30:26 pm PST #7646 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

My addictions were Starcraft and Diablo II, but Starcraft was the one that wouldn't go away when I shut my eyes.

Just found the Twelve Days of Starcraft on YouTube. Good times.


Theodosia - Nov 06, 2006 2:04:28 am PST #7647 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Good lord, I let you people alone for one night, and you're discussing Journey? I am so so disappointed in you all. Go to your rooms and think about your actions. Tssk. Just wait til I tell your father.


Kat - Nov 06, 2006 3:01:08 am PST #7648 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Liese tells the best voting stories!

Kat, go nap.

sarameg, as if. at 7:00 PM, it's no longer a nap. It's go to bed for the evening.


Amy - Nov 06, 2006 3:15:48 am PST #7649 of 10001
Because books.

AmyLiz, I'm trying to remember the names in the TV movie

That's not as different as I would have guessed then, ita. Although obviously Iraq wasn't a plot point in the book. Still, the lips! It was too hard to watch. You get many good friend points for getting all the way through it for Colin's sake.

I remember when LFB was really young and really pretty. Sad.


Fred Pete - Nov 06, 2006 4:17:37 am PST #7650 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

Belated Happy Birthdays, CaBil and Erika!

I think of Journey as more "arena rock." Which places them more with Styx, REO Speedwagon, earlier Aerosmith, Billy Squier.


Amy - Nov 06, 2006 4:21:14 am PST #7651 of 10001
Because books.

The Journey song I will always love is "Feelin' That Way". And my secret shameful love for REO Speedwagon (the music of eighth grade!) knows no bounds.


Topic!Cindy - Nov 06, 2006 4:25:19 am PST #7652 of 10001
What is even happening?

I don't remember that Journey song, AmyLiz, which actually surprises me, but yes oh yes word to 8th grade REO Speedwagon lurve.

Heard it from a friend who...


Amy - Nov 06, 2006 4:40:58 am PST #7653 of 10001
Because books.

Oh, you'd know it if you heard it.


sarameg - Nov 06, 2006 4:47:44 am PST #7654 of 10001

I sometimes nap at 7 pm. Usually only 15 minutes or so. Sometimes need it to slow me down for the evening, especially if I've been running errands and traffic is bad. It's a reset of sorts.

I can't tell you how happy it makes me that we only have two more days of obnoxious campaign ads.

Omg, yes. About the only ones that don't drive me batshit are for races I'm not voting in because often I've never heard of these people (I'm city, but these are for the surrounding counties) so they are just bemusing and strange. But I'm really really really tired of the puppy references. And the city bashing. Hey, you county fuckers! You work here, you drive our roads, use our services but don't want to support us! You are part of the problem!