Elena:

Elena's eyes kaleidoscoped wildly from blue to green to gray to blue and back again, swirling, shifting, twirling with all the colours of the ocean and everything good and real the colour spectrum had to offer, shifting through the spectrum of colours the Earth itself showed to our brave cosmonauts as they lived and loved in space .. What? Where was I?

"You got a problem with me, missy?" The soused apothecary growled drunkenly. "Bring it on!"

Micole in Literary:

Kind of like a synaesthete trying to explain what color a number is. (I've never perceived numbers as having colors. But when I got bored in third-grade math, I would make up personalities for the numbers and then each addition or subtraction problem would become a soap operaish tale of family conflict and betrayal.)

Looks like it's a mad-mad-Madrigal world this weekend.

In Natter:

Noumenon: Let's go clean cabinets.

Cindy: That's still not a euphemism, is it? Drat.

Madrigal: Maybe it could be a euphemism, like for outing really short people.

Cindy: What about the upper cabinets?

Madrigal: Very short, very gay people who can fly.

Cindy: Are they gay flying vampire people, or just mortals?

Madrigal: Since I've never really seen a 100% straight vampire, I'm thinking it'd go for both. Though vampires would probably favor those cabinets with the child-safety latches so that no one suprises them by suddenly opening the door when the room is sunny.

Cindy: True. Vampires are all about the ambi. Those latches are a good idea. You've given this a lot of thought.

Kathy Astrom: But if a non-vampire short person lived in a cabinet with latches, would a short flying vampire need an invitation to barge in?

Fay:

Very short, very gay people who can fly.

In Natter:

Consuela: And you know what's worse? Having a completely inept individual hitting on my while I'm barfing on the bus! Yes, he gave me napkins, but dude it's the height of bizarro-ness to press your scrap paper with your number on it on me while I'm hunched over in distress, whimpering, until the bus makes it to my stop.

DX:So, are you going to call him?

New to Angel, Rick looks for backstory in Angel NAFDA...

Plei:

First, TNT will be showing the show starting this fall

Rick:

Thanks, this is good timing. I'll have a friend with cable tape it for me.

I'm not mature enough to have cable TV. I would watch it

Nutty:

You ever have that weird feeling where you feel obliged to do something like make your neighbor cookies, but you also want to put arsenic on said cookies?

Hecubus:

Why did I buy my son a joy buzzer? Why? This was not a good idea.

In Natter 14, talk turn to the California recall ballot/election

Betsy HP:

Furthermore, there's a rumor that Arianna Huffington is considering running in the recall election. Whoo-bloody hoo!

brenda:

Oh, that would be so fabulous if Arianna ran. And if she was one of the only lefties to appear on the ballot, the flood of conservative candidates might drown each other out.

Arianna for governor!

(Now wishing I lived in California.)

Hec:

Arianna for governor!

No fucking way. I don't care how much she repents. She ran Michael Huffington's asstastic campaign as his wife/beard. Why anybody would believe she has any other agenda except to be near power I can't imagine.

Plei:

Went to Africa. Got a soul.

Oldest story in the book.

In Angel Spoilage Lite (casting spoilery):

Burrell: Okay, I have no problems with giving away the casting except that I think they are overselling the Spike factor.

Daniel C. Jensen: Yeah, I think it should be called Angel: The First TV Show for Men.

Damn you, wee Cindy! You win again.

I was coming over here to COMM that grumble grumble