Angel: Eve. So, I guess we should, I don't know, talk? Eve: About what? Angel: About what happened back there with us. Eve: Angel, it's not like this is the first time I've had sex under a mystical influence. I went to U.C. Santa Cruz.

'Life of the Party'


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.


sarameg - Jul 24, 2007 10:26:48 am PDT #9771 of 10001

blinks


Allyson - Jul 24, 2007 10:27:56 am PDT #9772 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I'm going to arrive at Comic Con on Saturday, but won't be selling books because I have none to sell. I could order some author copies overnighted, but then I'd have to deal with money, and change, and taxes.

I have fans?

It's at 2pm California time, Lee.


Ailleann - Jul 24, 2007 10:29:34 am PDT #9773 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

courtesy of Suela, possibly the craxxiest person on the internets: [link]

Bugger me for a lark, but that was funny.


Trudy Booth - Jul 24, 2007 10:34:32 am PDT #9774 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

I'm going to arrive at Comic Con on Saturday, but won't be selling books because I have none to sell. I could order some author copies overnighted, but then I'd have to deal with money, and change, and taxes.

Is there a vendor there you could tag along with? I'm sure anybody selling your book would be happy to bring a few cases along if they had the author there to sign it.


brenda m - Jul 24, 2007 10:35:23 am PDT #9775 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

HATE SPEECH! HATE SPEECH!!!!1! Don't make me hit you with a harrassment suite.


tommyrot - Jul 24, 2007 10:35:56 am PDT #9776 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.

So who here has heard of Norman Borlaug? I hadn't.

He Only Saved a Billion People

It's a trifecta much bigger and rarer than an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony. Only five people in history have ever won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal: Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Elie Wiesel ... and Norman Borlaug.

Norman who? Few news organizations covered last week's Congressional Gold Medal ceremony for Borlaug, which was presided over by President Bush and the leadership of the House and Senate. An elderly agronomist doesn't make news, even when he is widely credited with saving the lives of 1 billion human beings worldwide, more than one in seven people on the planet.

Borlaug's success in feeding the world testifies to the difference a single person can make. But the obscurity of a man of such surpassing accomplishment is a reminder of our culture's surpassing superficiality. Reading Walter Isaacson's terrific biography of Albert Einstein, I was struck by how famous Einstein was, long before his role in the atom bomb. Great scientists and humanitarians were once heroes and cover boys. No more. For Borlaug, still vital at 93, to win more notice, he would have to make his next trip to Africa in the company of Angelina Jolie.


brenda m - Jul 24, 2007 10:36:40 am PDT #9777 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

Green Revolution, baby.


tommyrot - Jul 24, 2007 10:39:13 am PDT #9778 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.

Green Revolution, baby.

Yay! I learned something new....


Allyson - Jul 24, 2007 10:40:33 am PDT #9779 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

There's no vendors I know about, no.

I'm so overwhelmed trying to plan the book release signing/reading thing at Vroman's, I can't even think about asking another human for another favor.


Ginger - Jul 24, 2007 10:43:11 am PDT #9780 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

It's not a favor. The bookseller would be making money.