This is the nuttiest TdF evah! Aren't you glad you chose this season to pimp me into it?
I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
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.
Liese S. - Jul 27, 2007 5:15:49 pm PDT #688 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Dana - Jul 27, 2007 5:18:13 pm PDT #689 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Aren't you glad you chose this season to pimp me into it?
Little did I know! Did you know there's only one other time that the leader has been kicked out in the middle of the Tour? It was in something like 1978, and they caught him with a whole tubing system and someone else's urine. Oops.
amych - Jul 27, 2007 5:20:14 pm PDT #690 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
This is the nuttiest TdF evah!
It really is -- and it's a nutty-assed sport. In non-dog-thwacking news, Paul did the stage description in Swahili today, quite fluently, and in what sounded like a lot of detail. (And I though he was impressive for not mangling French!)
Liese S. - Jul 27, 2007 5:22:18 pm PDT #691 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Hee. Whoopsie! That seems very complex. (Ha! Edited to clarify, tubing-based urination seems complex. Although Swahili seems complex, too, in a whole different way.)
Yeah, the SO & I were talking about it and we were all, there's not really any way it could be a bigger scandal. I mean, I guess naked paratroopers could land on the cyclists' heads with cocaine, but short of that...
Anyway, I know people have been talking about it like it's ruining the sport and all that stuff, and I definitely know there are going to be credibility questions and played politics and all that junk. But to me, right now, as a novice? Totally fascinating.
Lee - Jul 27, 2007 5:28:21 pm PDT #692 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I'm so sorry, Sheryl.
It's nothing-ma to both Lisah and Bev.
did anybody else watch The Nine? 'cause i was going through my TiFaux's scheduled recordings and it looks like ABC is bringing it back to burn off the remaining episodes. i never thought i'd get to see them!
oooh. Thanks for the heads up.
My perfect weekend would involve a tropical beach, a clean ocean with lots of pretty fishies, and maybe a cabana boy or two.
Kat - Jul 27, 2007 5:30:21 pm PDT #693 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I mean, I guess naked paratroopers could land on the cyclists' heads with cocaine, but short of that...
I love this image. If that happened it would be FANTASTIC!
§ ita § - Jul 27, 2007 5:45:34 pm PDT #694 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My midlife crisis continues (as does the fucking headache--I'm pissed, but I am not going near an ER this weekend) and I'm toying with another hair idea.
I don't know how artificial I can go at this job, but I saw a guy who had coloured just the front fringe of his hair. I keep mine longer, and usually lighter than the rest, and I wonder if I bleached just that and then coloured it red or something, and left the rest natural, or dyed it black...
Suddenly it sounds like work. But for a couple seconds there I imagined my outfit with my 'fringe' matching my corset and it was very cool.
There is just about nothing I could imagine happening to the TdF to make it more exciting. Because I totally don't care for cycling, but who doesn't love a good human scandal? It's great. Especially the bits where people bring shit down on themselves.
Kat, I owe you mail. Let me get on that.
Dana - Jul 27, 2007 5:55:53 pm PDT #695 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Aw, Axel Merckx got all teary at the end of the stage.
amych - Jul 27, 2007 5:56:28 pm PDT #696 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Well, it's not as fun as naked paratroopers, but there were some separatist bombings the other day. Of course, if you're blowing shit up and you can't get people to notice, your attention grab isn't so attention-grabby. [link]
§ ita § - Jul 27, 2007 6:01:01 pm PDT #697 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hirst is one of those artists who believes the art is in the concept, and will get other people to do the gruntwork. I'm assuming he's paid his dues, but I'm still tempted to call him a designer.
I'd love to be able to get people to execute my ideas. I have a million clothes mostly-designed in my head, and a bunch of other crap I have neither the knowledge or the skill to make real.