Heh. MM, if you transcribe, I may have some work for you.

MM - another customer service stupidity - overheard in the office, no less.

Co-worker on the phone with her son's school (a pretty strict place, with high academic standards and high standards for behavior) - she spent days on the phone talking to various people in the administration insisting that her son should be excused from the dress code. In particular, she wanted him to be able to wear his shirt untucked because he was chubby ("portly" in her words) and tucking it in made him uncomfortable/self-conscious. Also she wanted them to excuse him from having to wear black dress shoes and allow him to wear black sneakers because they were better for when he went out to play at lunch.

Don't know how this was resolved.

My mom got our family AOL account suspended because she sent out this humongous email to everyone she knew, and they thought she was a spammer.

Toddson's anecdote reminds me that parenting is so much more responsible for producing entitled children than Mr. Rogers ever could have been.

but now I'm sort of sad that this means that I will not be seeing Vortex this weekend!

I'm still here . We could have a drink or something, if you'd like. I hope (and pray and sacrifice a goat or something) that I will be moving on Saturday, so maybe something Sunday?

To use the voice, and in this case with dental appliances as well, to convey subtleties that the masked face isn't capable of, as well as Perlman did, is awesome.

Beverly. So, very THIS! I've always wondered if they looped very single line because of the prosthetics, but I don't think so. It seems that his innate talent, plus somebody's tech genius, made that makeup almost organic.

And, yes, the body language makes my knees weak. Helped, of course, by the knight in shining knits and leather costume.

I the exact opposite of my "Hey, Michael Dorn is too handsome for this make-up!" response to Worf not in drag, I always felt the make-up did Ron a favor. With all due respect! Even as Hellboy, he gets a chance to be super sexy without the impediment of 'hm. that Neanderthal forehead is distracting!"

Yay for new place!

Gah, Toddson.

Was the kid's name Dudley by any chance?

Toddson's anecdote reminds me that parenting is so much more responsible for producing entitled children than Mr. Rogers ever could have been.

Amen.

While the lives of celebrities generally have no impact on me what so ever, this whole Rogers-bashing thing has got me seeing red.

Back off of FRED, before I hurl this 8lbs. Benjamin Spock parenting book at your soft tissue!!

Vortex, our flight home is at 10:30am on Sunday out of BWI, so it doesn't look like we'll be able to meet up... probably for the best though, since you are MOVING! Damn!