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'The Killer In Me'


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.


Sean K - May 08, 2007 4:48:02 pm PDT #6215 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Fuck. Where's the fire??

It seems to have mostly burned Griffith Park so far, but it's close enough to homes for people to sweat.


Sean K - May 08, 2007 4:49:30 pm PDT #6216 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Cereal to add:

Griffith Park on this side of this hill, near the carousel, and where the Festival of Lights drive is every year. I can see the fire line from our window.


sarameg - May 08, 2007 4:50:00 pm PDT #6217 of 10001

I wonder if I get charged for busy-signal calls. Or rather, if they count against my monthly allotment.


§ ita § - May 08, 2007 4:53:15 pm PDT #6218 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Har. I was mistaken for a guy on a regular basis before I bleached my hair. And now I've bulked up. Thank goodness for Shock and Awe, or it'd probably happen more.

I have one comment to make about the Heroes promo for the next two weeks: that's not the same gun. Which, really, says more about me and the sort of pedant I'm expanding to become than it does about the show in any way. I know that person. I didn't want to be that person as well. The very least I can hope for is that what I noticed was purposeful.

sarameg, I do worry about my place going up in flames, but for any scenario in which the "wild"fires would get you, you're told to evacuate before your sensor would go off. Or perhaps after, depending on the dissipation. Just that it's not anything I'd rely on in those cases.


Aims - May 08, 2007 4:55:16 pm PDT #6219 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Oh holy crap! What started this one?


Jesse - May 08, 2007 5:08:34 pm PDT #6220 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh hey, Scola -- my TV situation seems to have been a fluke, so I guess I'm yet another person not taking your old TV away.... Did you put it on Craigslist or Freecycle?


tommyrot - May 08, 2007 5:14:19 pm PDT #6221 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I read they have an arson suspect in custody.


sarameg - May 08, 2007 5:16:34 pm PDT #6222 of 10001

sarameg, I do worry about my place going up in flames, but for any scenario in which the "wild"fires would get you, you're told to evacuate before your sensor would go off.

yeah, I know. Hell, I saw that in Flag. No one was injured while a subdivision got ate. But I'm paranoid in a way that logic and reason plays no part. An arsonist burnt down the across-the-street neighbor's home, and it was the next-to-us neighbor's insomnia that literally saved them. So FIRE NEAR? It's totally kneejerk and freakout.

I mean, the only time my smoke detector has fired was due to steam. Scarily, it did not go off when I filled the apartment with smoke due to a baking spill in the oven. Again, nsm with the logic.


Cashmere - May 08, 2007 5:21:01 pm PDT #6223 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Har. I was mistaken for a guy on a regular basis before I bleached my hair.

When I had short-short cut in high school, I was working at a Burger King. As I was emptying a trash bin, a lady approached me from behind and said, "Excuse me, Sir."

Um, even back then I was pushing towards a D cup. I tell myself it was the de-sexing uniform but man, did that hurt my self-esteem.

Still does, in fact.


§ ita § - May 08, 2007 5:24:59 pm PDT #6224 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I once asked a cashier why she called me Sir when I was facing her, wearing dangly earrings and a skirt.

Lots of guys wear earrings these days, she said. AND BREASTS??? I'll give her a pass on the skirt because of the counter, but still. BOOBIES.

Now my shoulders are expanding, and the rest of my silhouette isn't doing shit to keep up with it. My hip measurement is expanding backward! What's the use of that?

eta: Doesn't hurt my self esteem much, though. It's way late for that.