Kaylee: Can I? Zoe: Sure. He's out, though. Kaylee: He did this for me, once.

'Safe'


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.


Vortex - Jul 29, 2007 7:26:23 pm PDT #908 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

okay, definitely someone I want to meet.


tommyrot - Jul 29, 2007 7:27:01 pm PDT #909 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.

Amazon ranking went from 200k on friday to 3k today. nice.

Ooh. Awesome!


JenP - Jul 29, 2007 7:31:33 pm PDT #910 of 10001

Amazon ranking went from 200k on friday to 3k today. nice.

Holy crap! Way to go, book - keep it up!


§ ita § - Jul 29, 2007 7:43:00 pm PDT #911 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Sadly, said beautiful man rebels against his good looks. I respect his decision not to use them in his line of work (standup comedy), but the shallower part of me screams that it's a terrible waste. He's been deliberatly maintaining a scuzzy look--he used to be clean cut biker type, and from there to pretty clean cut hiker type, and has been trying various sorts of skeeze since then.

Yesterday I was talking about Victor Webster with a woman he'd worked for. She's an exec producer and we were just commenting on the "unfairness" of life that means guys like Victor or a friend Johann pretty much won't get a role unless it's written pretty. And they're both on the tall side of things, so even harder to make them blend in.

Still, having women throw themselves at your feet might make up for some of that. And if you play it right, it can help with the rent too.


bon bon - Jul 29, 2007 7:44:41 pm PDT #912 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Apparently Damages has an explicitly short term premise, and I'm finding it very engaging so far. I love that US TV is doing a little more of the UK methods--short seasons, few seasons. Cool to have that mixed in with everything else.

ISTR Glenn Close has like a seven year contract, so...maybe not as short term as you are thinking?

Also, cilantro-haters! Tonight I went with Bob and his brother to WD-50, and they had an herb there that tasted exactly like cilantro but Bob, the cilantro non-taster, could taste the cilantro flavor! Now he knows what it tastes like! I forget what it is called though. Whoops.


§ ita § - Jul 29, 2007 7:49:54 pm PDT #913 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Hmm. Maybe I have to settle for short seasons then. But it's nice to know they're thinking of an end:

The series was envisioned with Hewes tackling new cases each season (Danson's will be resolved at the end of this one), but her shingle will only be out for so long. With the network so heavily invested in serialized dramas and twisted protagonists, its shows have limited lives


Liese S. - Jul 29, 2007 7:52:53 pm PDT #914 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Wow, paperdol! That's totally awesome!

I love both cilantro and grapefruit. I particularly love Texas ruby red grapefruit from Zeys. We used to get it every Christmas and I would ration it out, holding it up to the sunlight to watch the rays sparkle through it. Savoring each bite, the summery coolness, the sudden burst of tang as each grain burst. Mmm.

But I also love regular sour yellow grapefruit.

I am probably not the best one to judge, though, because I also loved the taste of my grandmother's super crazy mega vitamin C pills.

My tongue looks normal to me, but when I talked about this the last time it came up with the SO, we concluded that I must be a subtaster. Or a supertaster with no, err, good taste.


billytea - Jul 29, 2007 8:06:11 pm PDT #915 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.

Also, cilantro-haters! Tonight I went with Bob and his brother to WD-50, and they had an herb there that tasted exactly like cilantro but Bob, the cilantro non-taster, could taste the cilantro flavor! Now he knows what it tastes like! I forget what it is called though. Whoops.

Oh, I know what cilantro tastes like. Indeed, whenever it's in a dish, that's the only thing that I know what it tastes like.


Susan W. - Jul 29, 2007 8:15:33 pm PDT #916 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Love cilantro because it has such a wonderful bright flavor. Hate grapefruit because it's like all the bitter in the bitterest foods in the world concentrated in one place.

Yay on your book, paperdol!


Laga - Jul 29, 2007 8:25:16 pm PDT #917 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I didn't know there was any other way to eat grapefruits.

The best way to eat a grapefruit is to first peel it, then turn each section inside out, eating only the pulp. It's even better if you alternate with pistachios.