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Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns  

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.


sumi - Aug 15, 2007 5:15:45 am PDT #4762 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Well, fipple flutes you do. (But I'm sure that they're not making that distinction.)

ION, check out this pup's giant ears!


shrift - Aug 15, 2007 5:21:50 am PDT #4763 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Hey shrift and Jilli - did you see Idolator ranked Patrick Stump as the second-hottest dude in music?

I'm always pleased when others recognize the hotness of Patrick Stump! But seriously, how is Clay Aiken hotter than Gerard Way? That's so wrong I can't even call it insane troll logic.


tommyrot - Aug 15, 2007 5:28:36 am PDT #4764 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.

A theory why gay people are attracted to theatre:

But I think also – just on a fundamental level and a political level – Gay people who are raised in a religious environment, a conservative religious environment are basically told, “You’re not good enough / you don’t belong here / you need to change / you need to be something else.” And so, in a lot of our lives, we end up leaving the church and hating God or hating Religion or hating the whole nine yards. But an inherently spiritual person doesn’t really lose the core of their being. So it’s going to come out somewhere. I think that what we discovered is that it comes out of Theatre, because Theatre and Church are essentially the same thing. They are story-telling, they are inspirational, and they are true. Theatre brings an even higher truth sometimes. Church basically repeats the same old story over and over again. I often wonder if that’s not one of the reasons so many Gay people wind up getting into Theatre. We’re always told that the reasons are because we’re used to hiding and wearing masks and being somebody else. But I think there’s something more profound. I think it’s because we have to tell our story and that we have something to contribute to the – and I hate to use the word “spiritual” – but that’s really what it is. It’s something more than just sitting across the table from somebody and talking about what’s going on. So, Theatre really does become a temple and a place of hard core truths, deep emotional truths.

Huh. Not sure I buy that....

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Theodosia - Aug 15, 2007 5:29:39 am PDT #4765 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I admit I weakened and posted a polite correction in the Vampire-People-hater's post about 'plagiarism' because, seriously, that's not a term you should throw about spuriously or stupidly (in his case). Feh.

Also, I'm kind of pleased that bt's couples therapist was in that NYTimes article, because from what he said here about the experience, s/he was very helpful in a sad circumstance.


sarameg - Aug 15, 2007 5:31:03 am PDT #4766 of 10001

OK, so my stupid stomach decided to start growling at 10:15, and I have a meeting at 11 which I'm now going to go to with ham breath.

Great.


shrift - Aug 15, 2007 5:39:55 am PDT #4767 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Oh, man, food. We're kind of having a constant stream of houseguests lately, and I'm about ready to start labeling the tupperware in the refrigerator with verboten signs. I had a lunch all ready to bring today! But someone eated it. And since I'm not on Ambien, I'm pretty sure it wasn't me.


Frankenbuddha - Aug 15, 2007 5:41:49 am PDT #4768 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I'm about ready to start labeling the tupperware in the refrigerator with verboten signs.

Better yet, get some biohazard stickers.


Steph L. - Aug 15, 2007 5:42:40 am PDT #4769 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I admit I weakened and posted a polite correction in the Vampire-People-hater's post about 'plagiarism' because, seriously, that's not a term you should throw about spuriously or stupidly (in his case). Feh.

Man, that guy is a douche.


tommyrot - Aug 15, 2007 5:43:41 am PDT #4770 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'm about ready to start labeling the tupperware in the refrigerator with verboten signs.

Label all of your tupperware with your name. Then put a sign on the fridge saying, "One of my tupperware containers has ExLax mixed in with the food. I'm not saying which."

You probably don't even need to add the ExLax...


shrift - Aug 15, 2007 5:56:51 am PDT #4771 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

While I appreciate the fact that apparently my cooking is nom-nom-nom-tastic, I'm having weird flashbacks to when I was still living with my parents and my mom and I would hide food from my dad, because otherwise he'd hoover it up in the middle of the night and ruin our meal plans.