Well, other bands know more than three chords. Your professional bands can play up to six, sometimes seven, completely different chords.

Oz ,'Storyteller'


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.


§ ita § - May 15, 2007 6:06:40 pm PDT #7540 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The bill from your mother, if issued, will always be higher.


aurelia - May 15, 2007 6:09:15 pm PDT #7541 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I found the hospital bill from my dad's birth in an old family bible. I think it was around $60.


Laura - May 15, 2007 6:13:36 pm PDT #7542 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

Did your family member write The Bill From My Father?!

Ha. No, but another book could have been written about these two. I often wanted to slap them both.


Lee - May 15, 2007 6:52:26 pm PDT #7543 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Gilmore Girls is making me sniffly.


Kat - May 15, 2007 6:54:14 pm PDT #7544 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

When I was a kid, we were travelling from Ohio to visit friends in Connecticut where I was born. My dad had a receipt for $7 from the hospital that they had paid (military hospital). He threatened to return me and get his money back if I did not behave on the trip.

Is it any wonder I'm completely warped?


Atropa - May 15, 2007 7:53:54 pm PDT #7545 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

He threatened to return me and get his money back if I did not behave on the trip.

My parents would occasionally claim that they got me from the Second-Hand Childrens Store, and that if they could only find the receipt, they would go get their money back. IIRC, I would counter with threatening to turn them into frogs.

Kat, the pictures are wonderful. I've been thinking of Noah and Grace a lot lately.


Trudy Booth - May 15, 2007 7:57:32 pm PDT #7546 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Is it any wonder I'm completely warped?

Well, you're not going to get a normal one at those prices...

(Of course, by that logic, your kids are going to be freaking angels all. the. time. )


Burrell - May 15, 2007 8:00:31 pm PDT #7547 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

My family never treated birth costs as an issue. Death, on the other hand, is fair game. After insurance paid up for my father's final hospital visit, the bill came to $700 something. My sister put it on his Discover card. And then she cracked a joke about it.


§ ita § - May 15, 2007 8:30:56 pm PDT #7548 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Did I mention today was weird? Well, at least it's going to end soon. Sooner, if I actually stop poking around my referer logs and go to sleep.


Lee - May 15, 2007 8:32:03 pm PDT #7549 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

You did.

You were right both times.