Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.

Jayne ,'Jaynestown'


All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American

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Holli - Apr 13, 2003 11:31:45 pm PDT #3413 of 9843
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore

I live in the suburbs, and while in theory I have access to public transportation, in practice I live in the kind of neighborhood where we can't get a bus stop because poor people and teenagers mught use it.

Besides, most of the teenagers get expensive cars from their parents-- which is something I don't want, because I dislike driving almost as much as I dislike my neighborhood.

Do I sound bitter? I'm maybe a little bitter.


Daisy Jane - Apr 13, 2003 11:32:07 pm PDT #3414 of 9843
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Not all of them. I'm a very defensive driver. My dad was a driver's ed teacher, so I'm anal about when my blinker goes on, when it goes off, who has the right of way, proper following distance, and I always stop behind the fricking white line.

I'll take the train for just about anything I know is on the route. DFW-train, zoo-train, arts district train. The rest of the time I don't because after a certain hour everything is routed through downtown, which is exactly where I don't want to be after a certain hour.

I don't know where this fits in to the discussion, but when my friend's boyfriend was here, he wanted to ride in a big gas guzzling truck. He was dissappointed with my little Volvo.


Caroma - Apr 13, 2003 11:42:58 pm PDT #3415 of 9843
Hello! I must be going.

Oh, I see, I made it sound like all cars? That wasn't what I meant. I was trying feebly to tie into Gar's post, because he's so much smarter than me it's not funny. It's too late for me to be posting.

And I guess if there's people who Take This Place Seriously, us folks who are here just to have a little fun sometimes will sometimes rattle their chains a little. I guess I just sort of lost a lot of respect for the whole ME as modern mythology thing when I watched the panels from BtVS and Angel at the Museum of TV and Radio. Aside from Joss, the actors really couldn't remember minor character names, plotlines, points, philosophies, etc. They were laughing at each other's mistakes and relied on Joss and the writers to correct their own. Joss himself would admit how much stuff was made up on the fly, or because an actor was unavailable, or an effect was too expensive. He took the Buffyverse sort of seriously but he was making fun of it at the same time. He would answer the more geeky hardcore audience questions with jokes and an implication that you shouldn't worry too much about the shows, just sit back and enjoy them. At least that's what I got out of them. I saw a bunch of hardworking talented young people, some bright, some sort of dim, all relaxed and well-dressed and bubbly, most of them just unknown actors who were grateful for their break but not hoping making a career out of it nor giving signs that they'd thought very deeply about their characters like the fans had. It sort of rubbed off on me.


Holli - Apr 13, 2003 11:47:06 pm PDT #3416 of 9843
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore

It's not really a "respect for modern mythology" thing, Caroma; for me, at least, it's that when I discuss things here I take it as seriously as I would a real-life conversation. I dunno. Maybe it is just the Internet, but I take it seriously.


Susan W. - Apr 13, 2003 11:54:20 pm PDT #3417 of 9843
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

I take things seriously or not depending on the topic and general tone of discussion. Just as if I were speaking to y'all in the flesh.


Daisy Jane - Apr 13, 2003 11:57:38 pm PDT #3418 of 9843
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Just as if I were speaking to y'all in the flesh.

I am not! I'm wearing pj's!


Susan W. - Apr 13, 2003 11:59:17 pm PDT #3419 of 9843
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

I'm posting naked under my underwear, jeans, turtleneck, and sweatshirt!

(It's not THAT cold here--I didn't bother to change after skating, since we keep the thermostat pretty low at night.)


P.M. Marc - Apr 14, 2003 12:01:05 am PDT #3420 of 9843
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I'm in a rose-pink robe.

FWIW.

SUSAN! I have a book for you. I forgot to give it to you in December at the Firefly thing. It's sitting in my computer room, reminding me.


Susan W. - Apr 14, 2003 12:14:57 am PDT #3421 of 9843
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

A book? What kind of a book?

Mmmm...books...


Daisy Jane - Apr 14, 2003 12:16:54 am PDT #3422 of 9843
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I was telling FE earlier that I don't like to go into the front room naked (there are like 8 inch gaps in my curtains. He made fun of me for thinking people were spying on me through my curtains.

Now I can tell him the buffistas were.