Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Wash ,'Serenity'


Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial  

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.


Kathy A - Dec 20, 2006 4:34:42 am PST #7121 of 10007
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

INot-XmasN, I just saw this posted in a blog--it's an anti-war song that's 2 1/2 years old, but still (unfortunately) as relevant as ever.


Tom Scola - Dec 20, 2006 4:45:15 am PST #7122 of 10007
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

TOOOOOOKIE!

[edit: BANANA!]


Daisy Jane - Dec 20, 2006 5:21:47 am PST #7123 of 10007
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

OK Go is best known for the video for "There It Goes Again," which features the band running around on a set of treadmills.

Or, if you're me, the songs "Get Over It," "You're So Damn Hot," and "What to Do."

Aww. It's Holli's birthday today.


Steph L. - Dec 20, 2006 5:28:43 am PST #7124 of 10007
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Or, if you're me, the songs "Get Over It," "You're So Damn Hot," and "What to Do."

And "C-C-C-Cinnamon Lips."


askye - Dec 20, 2006 5:30:34 am PST #7125 of 10007
Thrive to spite them

That whole album is fantastic.


Consuela - Dec 20, 2006 5:31:16 am PST #7126 of 10007
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Man, you know it's bad when you'd rather listen to Bill Kristol on the Daily Show than the president's news conference.

I have to wrap gifts and do laundry tonight. And I have to get the final offer from The New Job (TNJ) and tell my boss, which is going to be lots of fun. And then tell my staff, and my coworkers, and my clients... argh.

t flails


Daisy Jane - Dec 20, 2006 5:35:23 am PST #7127 of 10007
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I like the new album too. The first song is the theme for "Atomic County."

ETA: Now ya'll went and made me change my tag


tommyrot - Dec 20, 2006 5:51:11 am PST #7128 of 10007
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Huh.

PUTTING ON THE POUNDS: As the body mass index of runway walkers continues to make headlines, skinny models just might present a whole new problem for editors. Everyone has a story of a celebrity cover slimmed by Photoshop, but several editors have been quietly ordering the retouching of gaunt model shots to make them look, well, a little fatter. "A model shows up and you realize she's too thin and has lost weight since the booking, but the show must go on," said Allure editor in chief Linda Wells. "When the film comes to me, I realize I don't want to see hip bones and ribs in the magazine."

Enter the retouching process, which helps make the haggard look healthier. "If a girl shows up at a shoot and she's too skinny, a good stylist can pose her so that the reader doesn't have as much of a sense of it," said Lucky editor in chief Kim France. But, she added, "There are angles at which a girl's arm can look haunting."

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Typo Boy - Dec 20, 2006 5:59:57 am PST #7129 of 10007
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

In general the booms are good because of the new home building--the construction business hires a lot of people in low, middle and high pay scales which gets more money where it needs to be in the economy, rather than just mortgage brokers and realtors.

There is an argument to be made that the boom side of the cycle results in more high end homes being built - resulting in shortages on the low and middle ends. Overall I think we would be a lot better off if the highs did not get so high, and the lows so low. Fewer McMansions and fewer actual mansions, more apartments and more building of small and midsize homes.


Gudanov - Dec 20, 2006 6:12:24 am PST #7130 of 10007
Coding and Sleeping

Man, you know it's bad when you'd rather listen to Bill Kristol on the Daily Show than the president's news conference.

I kinda like Bill Kristol even though I disagree with him on about everything. He will often actually make a case for policies without resorting to questioning patriotism or stuff like that.