Ah, yes, of course. The gypsies, they gave you your soul. The gypsies are filthy people. Ptui! We shall speak of them no more.

Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'


Natter 54: Right here, dammit.  

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 § - Sep 17, 2007 5:43:45 pm PDT #1231 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

God bless LA. Will Smith is just down the street from where the Masai was. I knew I moved here for a reason.


sarameg - Sep 17, 2007 5:46:41 pm PDT #1232 of 10001

Heh. Hey, I have a question. Years and years ago, I was shopping with my cousin, and we bought a drinkable orange yogurt thing that I loved. I figured it was a Minneapolis japanese community thing and didn't bother to search it out. With the proliferation of yogurt drinks, I've been looking for it again. No luck at my stores. Anyone else familiar with it?


lori - Sep 17, 2007 5:46:47 pm PDT #1233 of 10001

Aww, Jason Bateman! Jeremy Piven! And yes, Jen is smokin' hot, with gold stilletos. She is so sweet - happily waving at the fans. Love her.


lori - Sep 17, 2007 5:46:50 pm PDT #1234 of 10001

meara - Sep 17, 2007 5:58:27 pm PDT #1235 of 10001

They have scary teeth! They move inexplicably and in ways different from human locomotion! They have eerie green lights coming from below where clearly monsters unknown to humans live, waiting to eat the masticated bits of people sucked through the escalator teeth!

I saw a kid get his foot caught in the escalator a month or so ago. It was freaky. His mom screamed a lot. Even after she wrestled his foot out. (It was caught between the side of the stairs and the shiny silver wall, as they were going down, for about 5-10 feet)


Liese S. - Sep 17, 2007 5:58:47 pm PDT #1236 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Liese, it may be a result of not having escalators.

Yeah, almost definitely. We didn't really even have stairs in any of my childhood houses, so when I was wee I wasn't altogether good at those, either. Escalators were pretty rare in my little town.

drinkable orange yogurt thing that I loved. I figured it was a Minneapolis japanese community thing

Bikkle, maybe?


sarameg - Sep 17, 2007 6:05:40 pm PDT #1237 of 10001

Gnarg. It may have been that. It's probably been 15 years. I should go to the huge asian market south of me. I adored that stuff, and don't really like all the berry and/or peach variety. Hell, I can't even find orange yogurt these days, and I KNOW we used to get it in the Lucerne brand when I was wee.

I saw an illuminated blimp. That was freaky.


§ ita § - Sep 17, 2007 6:20:28 pm PDT #1238 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What's an Orange Julius? Could be that.


Laga - Sep 17, 2007 6:23:10 pm PDT #1239 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Orange Julius has egg in it.

edit: no it doesn't


Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 17, 2007 6:30:58 pm PDT #1240 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Also, Hec is not Dave, and Matilda is too young to state any preferences one way or another but I myself have a screaming aversion to Mattie. If that's the nick she settles on I'm going to have to work shamefully hard on being Zen about it.

Just give her a good role model to help her pick the right nickname, JZ: [link]