It's simple. I slap 'em around a bit, torture 'em, make their lives hell...Sure, the nice guys'll run away,but every now and then you'll find a prince like Spike who gets off on it.

Buffy ,'Get It Done'


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.


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.


Theodosia - Jul 30, 2007 2:24:54 am PDT #918 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 understand the bitter receptors on your tongue tend to get less sensitive with age, so perhaps when I am 90, I too will be able to appreciate the grapefruit.

Amazon 3K rating is very very good and I bet paperdol's agent and publisher are dancing a little. Although, higher ratings get recalculated much more often (like daily instead of weekly) so it can dramatically change much more often, which makes authors even more nervous!


Megan E. - Jul 30, 2007 2:51:03 am PDT #919 of 10001

Cut them in half, sprinkle sugar on, and scoop out bits with a spoon?

Don't forget to put the maraschino cherry slice in the middle for a modicum of colour.

I eat grapefruit like an orange. Nom nom nom.


Theodosia - Jul 30, 2007 3:05:07 am PDT #920 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"

You may have all of mine, frankly.

It's still raining and thundering out there. I'm so glad to be jobfree at the moment, so I don't have to commute in it!

Alas for Nutty's soon-to-be-ex-roommates, who are going to be moving in all this....


Theodosia - Jul 30, 2007 3:27:41 am PDT #921 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"

Sesame Bagel with margarine:

In paperdol news, Our Favorite Book is now owned by 19 people on Library Thing, and that's enough for the Suggester agent to come up with a recommendation list. Here's the first ten:

  • The Weaver and the Factory Maid by Deborah Grabien
  • A Feeling for Books : the Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-class Desire by Janice A. Radway
  • Room Service by Amy Garvey
  • Functional Training for Sports by Michael Boyle
  • Lord Darlington's Darling (Signet Regency Romance) by Gayle Buck
  • A Collectors Guide to Swords, Daggers, and Cutlasses by Gerald Weland
  • Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet : New Essays by Karen Hellekson
  • Shadow Patriots by Lucia St. Clair Robson
  • The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Milly Williamson
  • The Love Match/Quadrille (Omnibus) (Regency Romance) by M. C. Beaton


sarameg - Jul 30, 2007 3:34:32 am PDT #922 of 10001

Very good weekend, excellent company.

Very early morning. Have to leave early today, hence early morning. But not for anything fun.

Devi found a person not me that she doesn't flee from.

Work. bah.


amych - Jul 30, 2007 3:38:57 am PDT #923 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Here's the first ten:

It's like they know us.


§ ita § - Jul 30, 2007 5:02:57 am PDT #924 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I love that list, and think it's great that Deb and Amy are on it. I'm cracking up because I feel that the Functional Training for Sports and A Collectors Guide to Swords, Daggers, and Cutlasses are my fault.