Jayne: You wanna go, little man? Wash: Only if it's someplace with candlelight.

'Objects In Space'


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.


§ ita § - Jul 27, 2007 2:35:40 pm PDT #668 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My perfect weekend is hard. It has to have lazy late mornings with a beach view, Blue Mountain coffee, mellow music, and mimosas made with freshly squeezed orange juice.

There will be hammocks, light breeze, light reading and lots of laughing.

There needs to be krav, and maybe kettlebell, and working out until I can barely see straight and rehydrating with more freshly squeezed juices and some Ting.

The food is fresh, with just-caught fish. Cold pineapple is unlimited.

When it becomes evening, although there's a widescreen TV with every station under the sun, we also have HD TiVo, so no rush. There's no light pollution, and everything is very quiet except for crickets and the odd faraway dog and birds.

We can see fireflies from the veranda, and smell night jasmine.

By now we're drinking rum punch and are all very silly but pretending to be serious as we play Scrabble and cards. The night's warm, but not too hot for sheets when we finally pack it in.

On Sunday we do it again.

Or just pack it in and go sailing.


Allyson - Jul 27, 2007 2:37:25 pm PDT #669 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

Here's a scan of the EW thing:

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Pix - Jul 27, 2007 2:38:13 pm PDT #670 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

My perfect weekend is ita's, only with more books and less exercise. I can taste that weekend. Would like it so much.


sarameg - Jul 27, 2007 2:40:29 pm PDT #671 of 10001

So freaking cool.

I can't pin down a single perfect weekend idea. It's all about location to suit my mood, good weather and very few people, except of my choosing. I tend to just roll with nothing planned. Which is great when I have no obligations, but frequently leads to actual weekends regimented by chores so I don't sink into squalor.

Which isn't my ideal. If that needs to be said.


Pix - Jul 27, 2007 2:54:33 pm PDT #672 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Great blurb, pd. How cool that you share a Harry Potter edition! That can't hurt your sales...


Jesse - Jul 27, 2007 2:55:32 pm PDT #673 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

And seriously, it's so much better than a review. No need for blah-blah-blah pros and cons or whatever, it's just about how the book is awesome!!


Bobbi - Jul 27, 2007 3:06:39 pm PDT #674 of 10001
Dog is my co-pilot.

My perfect weekend would definitely not include the 12-hour shift I'm scheduled to work tomorrow.

I wish I could show Aimee and MM to my boss and coworkers as an effective example of medium-distance communication. Instead of the yelling from office to office and down the hall that they currently do.

My DH hates it when I call to him from elsewhere in the house. That's the way we did it when I was growing up--In my family, we can project. So now I use my cell to call him on his cell or the landline when we're on different floors.


amych - Jul 27, 2007 3:08:24 pm PDT #675 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

We sometimes IM each other from the next seat over.


meara - Jul 27, 2007 3:14:40 pm PDT #676 of 10001

My perfect weekend would involve being somewhere fabulous with friends....a beach might not be it, unless it weren't beach weather. But there would be hammocks, lots of books, some internet, some movies/tv dvds, and lots and lots of food. And some board or card games.


megan walker - Jul 27, 2007 3:26:25 pm PDT #677 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

And seriously, it's so much better than a review. No need for blah-blah-blah pros and cons or whatever, it's just about how the book is awesome!!

Yes, as my housemate said when I showed it to him: "That's the type of book that potential readers just need to know about, they don't need a review."