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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.


shrift - Sep 27, 2007 6:21:47 am PDT #3358 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

It needs to be hometime sooner.

Yeah, but you're six hours in the future. Here we haven't even hit elevensies yet.


Dana - Sep 27, 2007 6:22:43 am PDT #3359 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

It does need to be lunchtime. I got desperate and ate a slice of bread with peanut butter on it, which was not planned for my day's eating. Now I'm worried that I didn't bring enough food.

I'm pretty sure sugar cane is (or was) a big industry in Louisiana (hence, the Sugar Bowl college football game).

And south of Houston is a town called Sugar Land, home to Imperial Sugar. And Tom DeLay.

Okay, but this, from wikipedia, is just wrong:

In 2006 CNN/Money and Money magazine ranked Sugarland third on its list of the 100 Best Cities to Live in the United States.


Jessica - Sep 27, 2007 6:23:41 am PDT #3360 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I watched the Cane pilot a while back, and liked it a lot. Took me a while to figure out all the characters & relationships though - it was the most densely written pilot I saw all season.


Jars - Sep 27, 2007 6:24:14 am PDT #3361 of 10001

Yeah, but that means I've been in work for seven and a half hours already.

Also, I promise I'll be thinking of you when I go home at five.


Connie Neil - Sep 27, 2007 6:24:25 am PDT #3362 of 10001
brillig

This shit is so fucked up. I shouldn't have to be this grateful over something so terribly mundane.

Whenever I tell my husband about your travails, ita, he always nods in grim recognition. Too much of the day he's confined to bed because his back and legs hurt too much. The drugs he's on knock him out and play with his memory, plus he's on three different mood alterers to counteract the depressive side effects of the pain pills.

I've told him that you're working with some relatively competent pain docs, but he's wondering how your vitamin and mineral levels are. Apparently if those get out of balance, that can make migraines worse.


bon bon - Sep 27, 2007 6:25:10 am PDT #3363 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

bon, have you watched Damages at all? Sparky? Lee? Vortex? They're spending a lot of slow time inside a law firm, and I was wondering how they were handling it. Of course, if you cast Glenn Close you're hardly going to be spending time with fuzzy humanitarianism, but even as an outlier...

I watched two episodes and didn't stick with it. It's fair to say those two episodes were not realistic-- just using the law firm construct for a drama that could be anywhere. On the other hand, this morning I walked past a filming location about a block from my apartment and thought I should start watching again just for that.


shrift - Sep 27, 2007 6:32:14 am PDT #3364 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

It does need to be lunchtime.

I'm going to die of boredom today. I will die and be dead. I just thought I should warn you.

Yeah, but that means I've been in work for seven and a half hours already.

I'd have sympathy and stuff, but I have six hours to go, and objectively I think that's worse.


Jessica - Sep 27, 2007 6:34:27 am PDT #3365 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

On the other hand, this morning I walked past a filming location about a block from my apartment and thought I should start watching again just for that.

That's so funny, because they also film about a block away from me.


shrift - Sep 27, 2007 6:35:26 am PDT #3366 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

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§ ita § - Sep 27, 2007 6:40:23 am PDT #3367 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The drugs he's on knock him out and play with his memory, plus he's on three different mood alterers to counteract the depressive side effects of the pain pills.

Hello yes. Not something one wants to be nodding in acknowledgement of, but there you go.

It's fair to say those two episodes were not realistic-- just using the law firm construct for a drama that could be anywhere.

Interesting. It's definitely a psychological game above all else, but to my untrained eye Glenn Close oozes the image of a sharklike TV lawyer.