ita in Bitches, explaining why she doesn't try the 'crazy' card:

I can't spit and not hit a family member that has outpsychoed me without breaking a sweat. So I have a low estimation of my abilities.

Hecubus in Natter:

Emmett: Dad, can you name a monster for every letter in the alphabet, except for the vowels?
Me: So...starting with "B"?
Emmett: No, go ahead and do the vowels too.
Me: Okay. A is...Alien. B is a Balrog.... [bunch of other monsters] and L is....uh....
Emmett: Living Dead!
Me: Right. Good one. M is for Mummies. N is uh....hmmm.
Emmett: National Living Dead!
Me: Excellent choice.
Emmett: I know a good one for Z.
Me: Okay, I'll save that one for you. [bunch of other monsters] ...and U is for Undead. And V is for Voldemort. W is Werewolf. X is X-Ray Vision Man and Y is for Yeti and Z is?
Emmett: Zombie!
Me: Perfect.
Emmett: I helped with some. Like National Living Dead. That was a good one. It would be like a sport like National Football League. Except they wouldn't have any balls they'd just kick around their heads and their hands.

Michele T.:

Well, the crazy-cult-clone-hoaxers believe we all started as alien-created clones, right? Only, now, when I think of aliens coming to earth, I find myself visualizing Tom Welling, so I guess that puts me in the pro-crazy-cult camp. Drat.

Anne W.:

Rather than Buffy, we here in the U.S. are being graced with "Funky Flubs" this evening.

I swear, television programming has dug through the bottom of the barrel and is speedily tunneling its way through the earth's crust.

Anne W., in Natter:

You know how cats can sleep really, really soundly? It's really funny to see them wake up in mid-air.

I think I'd rather wear a tiara than a veil if I ever got married. With veils I'd start thinking about all kinds of women-as-virgin-property issues, whereas with a tiara I'd just be in a princess-ish powertrip.

Calli, in SB.

BHP, in Bitches

The "Who's Got The Brain" game makes my family giggle. They also like "Guillotine".

Remember, when somebody's up in a clock tower shooting at you, it's probably my kids.

Non-traditional COMM: Found poetry, by sarameg, in Literary

"That woman is writing in her books!"
"nominal" "Twelfth Night"
I very often underline words that I don't know, but that is about it.
Gone With the Wind "Mac Classic" GWTW Maltese Falcon
"Because I want to,"
"You're supposed to use yellow!" "But I want to use green." "It's supposed to be yellow!"
"you're supposed to use yellow"
"Then that's reason enough to use green."

Anne W., in Buffy, speculating on a possible series closings:

Now I'm thinking about an ending that has Suzanne Pleshette waking up next to Bob Newhart and telling him about the weird dream she had.

askye, in Natter:

The hardest thing isn't living in this world, it's learning how to let go of the past hurts, make peace with them, and move on. You want to hold on to them and bind them to you tightly because "this hurt me" and "This made me" and you define yourself by it. But after awhile you can't keep defining yourself by something that happened decades ago. If you keep holding on to it---pain or happiness or whatever--you stagnate and you stay there. You can't go forward or become something new because you are trapped with that. And it's hard to let go, you put it down and then you look at it. It's so familiar, the feel of it---joy or sorrow---it fits just so in the space you've made for it, so you want to catch it up again and fit it back in its place. Instead what you have to do is find new things to fill up that place, new things bring growth.