I got to leave a little over an hour early too. I think I may celebrate by going to sleep before it gets dark.
Now you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty flowered bonnet, I will end you.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here
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.
Lee - Apr 06, 2007 5:31:59 pm PDT #1163 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
§ ita § - Apr 06, 2007 5:37:43 pm PDT #1164 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Grindhouse. I think I'm insane.
Burrell - Apr 06, 2007 5:56:13 pm PDT #1165 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Yay, Allyson! What a great last day of work.
I think Grindhouse looks fun, ita. Not that I'm likely to see it in a theater, but you know.
sarameg - Apr 06, 2007 6:07:05 pm PDT #1166 of 10001
So I've been of need of evening conversation all this week to keep from being totally whacko and just now called the brother. Who engaged me in a long philosophical discussion which devolved into middle names for the oncoming nephew and a faux-fight with his wife. (He's not keen on the first name chosen, but resigned.)
It was a good conversation. And I STILL think Esteban would be an awesome middle name, damnit (he agrees, she doesn't. Plus, the whole TEA initials.)
Also? My brother is the funnest dad. He brings D into work (partly to freak out the boss) and sets him up with acid/base experiments. Color changes! D can now use various pipettish tools better than most first year grad students. And he's 4!!!
Scrappy - Apr 06, 2007 6:07:15 pm PDT #1167 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
DH reported Grindhouse as fun, but not nearly as much fun as he expected. And he is a big fan of both Tarantino and Rodriguez.
Emily - Apr 06, 2007 6:37:31 pm PDT #1168 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Jill Sobule doing Hot in Herre.
This is how Nelly would have sounded if he were a folk artist in the 60s. And a girl. Complete with banjo, harmonica, tamborine, and other traditional hip-hop instruments.
And does anyone know what is with the "Herre" spelling? I hate to sound like the uncoolest square ever, but I always want to read that as, well, "Herr-eh," like the German Herr with an e at the end.
Kathy A - Apr 06, 2007 6:53:25 pm PDT #1169 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
One of the streets in the Gold Coast neighborhood of Chicago is Goethe Street. The hoity-toiity who live around there pronounce it "properly," but your average Chicagoan will normally say "Go-thee."
brenda m - Apr 06, 2007 7:12:48 pm PDT #1170 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Not the bus-stop recorded announcer guy, though. He pronounces it right.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 06, 2007 8:20:01 pm PDT #1171 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Grindhouse. I think I'm insane.
Was that a review or a premonition (I posted my spoiler-free opinion in Movies)?
DH reported Grindhouse as fun, but not nearly as much fun as he expected. And he is a big fan of both Tarantino and Rodriguez.
The crowd reacting was a big portion of the fun, and that seemed to peak on the non-feature segments (a few gross-out/action moments aside).
Unfortunately, there was a whole row of wannabee-hipster fanboys in front of me who seemed to be determined to not enjoy it for some reason. The louder the rest of the crowd reacted, the more stone-faced and "tsk"-y they got.
shrift - Apr 06, 2007 9:24:04 pm PDT #1172 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Apparently all of the suck decided to hit in the earlier part of this week, because I went shopping and scored two shirts, two skirts, and a pair of jeans for what I could have spent on a single dress. There was a package of goodies from my mom waiting in the building foyer. I just took a ridiculously long nap, and I have awesome hair.