How you know you are at the hottest development rights lecture in town: Ed Koch is chillin' in the back.
Slay-er? Chosen One. She who hangs out a lot in cemeteries? You're kidding. Ask around. Look it up: Slayer comma The.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
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.
bon bon - Jun 18, 2007 2:55:39 pm PDT #3689 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Kat - Jun 18, 2007 2:55:53 pm PDT #3690 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I've learned how to royally piss an entire medical team off. Just say, "I want Grace transferred because I lack confidence in your care."
Of course they didn't offer to transfer her BACK to Huntington, but they did offer to send her to UCLA, which at least must be a cleaner hospital than Children's.
tommyrot - Jun 18, 2007 2:59:32 pm PDT #3691 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.
Heh, yesterday I was stopped behind a low-slung Mercedes at a red light, when suddenly the top started to lift up and the back window slid into the trunk, all in about 30 seconds. Now, that's a convertible.
Hardtop convertibles. Looks like they may be the next big thing, as you can lower the top but still have the advantages of a steel hardtop. A bunch of companies have them, including VW and the new Chrysler Sebring....
Rick - Jun 18, 2007 3:15:09 pm PDT #3692 of 10001
For a hot second in the 80s I thought I was living at the one true sartorial time, where everyone else was mockable and we'd be right forever.
ita's insight reminds me of this Tom the Dancing Bug cartoon, which provides a good illustration of age versus cohort for psychology classes:
Sparky1 - Jun 18, 2007 3:20:08 pm PDT #3693 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Of course they didn't offer to transfer her BACK to Huntington, but they did offer to send her to UCLA, which at least must be a cleaner hospital than Children's.
Oh, Kat. I'm so sorry and so very angry at how the people you should be able to trust, who should answer your questions and who should be giving Grace the best of care screwed this up. My best thoughts are for your girl.
Jesse - Jun 18, 2007 3:31:52 pm PDT #3694 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh god, Kat -- what a mess. I hope the situation gets better.
How you know you are at the hottest development rights lecture in town: Ed Koch is chillin' in the back.
And you thought it would be boring!
That kneeling-lady pillow is creepy.
Steph L. - Jun 18, 2007 3:34:04 pm PDT #3695 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Kat, good for you! More importantly, good for Grace.
not if it's as twee as the condom cases marketed towards women.
I....kinda like those. I can't explain why, but they exert a strange power over me.
On a related note: Batsuit.
Those boots....GUH. The boots made me all knee-wobbly and drooly fangirly.
sarameg - Jun 18, 2007 3:43:05 pm PDT #3696 of 10001
I'm sorry it had to get to that necessary of a point, Kat, but I'm hoping it means good things for Grace. Damnit, as if it wasn't hard enough.
Sue - Jun 18, 2007 4:05:41 pm PDT #3697 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Transferring her seems like a good idea, Kat.
bon bon - Jun 18, 2007 4:18:24 pm PDT #3698 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
And you thought it would be boring!
Actually, there was one interesting part of the lecture, the special cases part-- for the purposes of the following trivia, you have to know that "development rights" are what people think of as "air rights" and that they can be transferred to non-adjacent buildings under some circumstances, which leads to some very tall buildings. In the theater district, they have a special zoning for about 40specified theatres. Since a theater building can't really build high-- you would have supporting beams right in front of the stage, like the UCB theater-- and they're always cash strapped, they are permitted to sell their development rights *anywhere in the theater district* for, among other things, a promise to always remain a theater. So if you see a huge highrise on 8th Ave. in the 40s, you can assume they bought the development rights from a theater that isn't going anywhere.
I thought that was interesting, at least.