And I wonder, what possible catastrophe came crashing down from heaven and brought this dashing stranger to tears?

Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


Sue - Sep 06, 2007 2:57:29 pm PDT #8910 of 10001
hip deep in pie

Congrats meara!


Jesse - Sep 06, 2007 3:10:49 pm PDT #8911 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OMG, I'm such a dope. I just noticed my phone was out of battery, and had been since at least some time yesterday. Oops.


Lee - Sep 06, 2007 3:12:20 pm PDT #8912 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Shit I didn't say today:

Dude, you are looking at the same piece of paper I am, and you are supposed to be the expert. Why the hell are you asking me what it means?

I did it that way because that's the way your secretary told me you wanted it. It's not my frelling fault she had it wrong or that you haven't bothered paying attention for over 5 years.


Jesse - Sep 06, 2007 3:14:50 pm PDT #8913 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh god, Lee, I had one of those last month, at a monthly meeting. Big Boss was all, "What on earth is this? Why is it like this??" Um, it's the same thing it's been every month for the past year? And it's like that because I thought that was what it was supposed to be.


Fred Pete - Sep 06, 2007 3:20:48 pm PDT #8914 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

Congrats, meara! Though we'll miss you....


Lee - Sep 06, 2007 3:21:40 pm PDT #8915 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

HATE THAT, especially since he asked me right in front of his secretary, and I had no choice but to say "see, that line, right there, on the form your secretary sent me, the one that says do it x way? That's why I did it x way."


Jesse - Sep 06, 2007 3:25:15 pm PDT #8916 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh yeah, that's even worse. Mine, all I could say was, "I was pretty sure from looking back that that's what I was supposed to do..."


Lee - Sep 06, 2007 3:39:42 pm PDT #8917 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

They both suck.


Sheryl - Sep 06, 2007 3:55:03 pm PDT #8918 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Am back from Seattle. Saw many sights. Had fun. Very tired now, and have lost pronouns...again.


billytea - Sep 06, 2007 4:00:52 pm PDT #8919 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

There will be no dissing of the Dragon*Con!

Damn straight. I've been twice, loved it. Last year I timed my visit to the US so I could go. Geekdom, IMO, is all about one's enthusiasm for one's interests, and DragonCon gets that. I love that you get so many different fandoms gracing the place. Trekkies, Star Wars, D&D (that's what draws me, of course), military period costumes, there were some great Dr Who outfits last year, superheroes, and all the rest of them. The most disturbing outfit I saw last year was a guy dressed up as Gene Simmons, and that's just excellent. Gene Simmons! Hell, I wouldn't regard it as out of the question to find Richard Simmons there. I want to live in a world where I can turn a corner and be surprised by a guy with a shaved head in a pink tutu and a backpack in the shape of the head of Animal from the Muppets. board games, and the shopping is so much fun. (Oh, and last time I ate lunch at the next table over from Ralph Malph and Pottsie. The guest speaker list always contains nifty surprises.)

It's an experience. There may be better Cons for D&D, but none of them can hope to match DragonCon for the experience. (I really hope I can take Wallybee sometime, I think she'd get a real kick out of it. Though then I couldn't spend most of the day playing D&D.)