I had a whole section about civic pride.

Mayor ,'Chosen'


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.


JenP - Sep 20, 2007 6:02:51 pm PDT #1969 of 10001

Susan, that's fantastic. Go, your mom.

Kat, also terrific. The place looks great.

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What's the storyline people are worried about on FNL? Also didn't know the S2 opener was available. Must watch.

shrift! Frank Iero is going to be on the next episode of LA Ink. Apparently the flakey tattoo artist stands him up for several hours. Does he stomp off in a huff? Does he sit around bored? Nope - he helps move stuff around in their stock room.

This is why, even though I'm barely acquainted with MCR's music, I'm a little bit in love with 'em. That, and shrift's picspam. Which is how it all began for me.


Cashmere - Sep 20, 2007 6:03:17 pm PDT #1970 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Excellent news about your mom, Susan.

I loaded the dishwasher, watched one episode of Torchwood and am now going to the gym.


Susan W. - Sep 20, 2007 6:07:12 pm PDT #1971 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Apparently she really beat the odds. Her doctor said with her type of cancer, 75% of the time surgery and chemo don't get everything. They're going to check her every three months for the next two years. She's still weak, but she says food is starting to taste right to her again, and she's been able to get her own groceries and go to church as long as one of her sisters or SILs goes with her. Which is huge, because she started the year with hip replacement surgery and was just starting to recover from that when they found the lung cancer, so she's hardly been anywhere outside her own house that wasn't a hospital or rehabilitation facility at any point in 2007.


§ ita § - Sep 20, 2007 6:08:18 pm PDT #1972 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have to see if I can put my gym membership on hold. I'm wasting too much money.


Sue - Sep 20, 2007 6:27:43 pm PDT #1973 of 10001
hip deep in pie

I'm so glad to hear the news about your mom, Susan.


Nutty - Sep 20, 2007 6:28:17 pm PDT #1974 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

I'll vote for no-cancer! No-cancer is always good. Statistically unlikely no-cancer is icing on the cake!

crush

Richard Widmark is stubbornly not dead, but he is older than my grandfather. But if he were 30 again, I'd rumple him some.

Gene Kelly, I just wanted to be him. Just, not with that hair from The Three Musketeers.

Toby Stephens. Where did you go, friend? But when was he ginger?

I think he was born ginger. As with a lot of redheads, he went darker in adulthood, but he still qualifies as auburn, yesno? I mean, in the most recent Jane Eyre he was in, they dyed his hair black, but managed to leave his copious sideburns bright orange.

I don't think very many gingers are as ginger as Damian Lewis, because people that pale are usually dead of skin cancer by age 25. I presume Lewis has survived as long as he has because he has heretofore lived in England.


Kat - Sep 20, 2007 6:29:25 pm PDT #1975 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Maggie Gyllenhaal is doing ads for Agent Provocateur.

Sorry. Should add, not especially work friendly.


erikaj - Sep 20, 2007 6:44:05 pm PDT #1976 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

John Garfield is one of my Movie Star of History crushes, because HUAC wanted him to name his depressed wife as a Communist and he said "Fuck you," and wouldn't do it. That's sexy, imo. I'd like to think I'd do that, myself, in his place. Career-ending, though. But still hot.


Burrell - Sep 20, 2007 7:07:01 pm PDT #1977 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Yay Susan for your mom's excellent cancer scans. Lately I've been hearing way too much BAD cancer news from family and friends. I'm glad someone is beating the odds.

Yay Kat on finding good daycare. Plus it looks like a good place to me.

I have lately been feeling all sorts of gratitude towards my daycare lately. I realize just how much the kids really flourish there, and all the ways that they've helped out in the parenting department. For example, Isaac transitions to the younger Preschool class next week. His teacher has already told me she plans on getting him and all his cohort (a bunch of children have recently transitioned from Toddler to Preschool) out of pull-ups and into underpants.


Burrell - Sep 20, 2007 7:15:50 pm PDT #1978 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Okay, and in a total woe-is-me serial post, it turns out I infected my one and only beloved daughter with feel-like-ass flu. Clever.