I have to see if I can put my gym membership on hold. I'm wasting too much money.
Simon: I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can... How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep? Mal: You don't know me, son. So let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.
'Serenity'
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 20, 2007 6:08:18 pm PDT #1972 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Consuela - Sep 20, 2007 8:03:43 pm PDT #1979 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Sumi, I heard about that storyline, although I haven't watched the episode yet. I too am very concerned.
And yay Susan!
Allyson - Sep 20, 2007 8:05:13 pm PDT #1980 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Kat! I got Halloween bibs for the kids that read, "I LOVE MY MUMMY" and there's a mummy picture! AWESOME!
DavidS - Sep 20, 2007 8:37:26 pm PDT #1981 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Kat, that's great news. I'm so glad you got a break. I think maybe that was a break and a half since it's so close to Grace's place. Proximity counts for a lot when you're juggling such big stresses.
Back from parent teacher night. Emmett's teacher has taught 6th grade for 27 years! She's experienced. She's very nice and calm and stable and teacherly. She already seems fond of Emmett, which he is reciprocating. Bodes well.
Plus they're reading Dickens this year.
Emmett is also picking up a new sport - wrestling. Perfect for his pre-adolescent energy/aggression.
As is typical for him when facing a new experience he was iffy/doubtful/ negative and then ta da he loves it.