I've tried to march in the Slayer Pride Parade ...

Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'


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.


Jesse - Sep 30, 2007 8:32:00 am PDT #4034 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Is Cincinnati chili controversial?

Only in that it's not actually chili.


Trudy Booth - Sep 30, 2007 8:35:33 am PDT #4035 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Sadly, I don't like wine.

And for some reason I suspect Jesus would be kind of a buzzkill. In a nice way and all, but still.

I'd think he could come up with a nice lager for you.

Is Cincinnati chili controversial?

Not if you leave out the nasty cilantro...

Yeah, I like the stuff, but I'm not sure there is cilantro in Cinicnnati much less Cincinnati chili.


DavidS - Sep 30, 2007 8:40:50 am PDT #4036 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Score! Naptime has lasted long enough for me to upload & name a bunch of new pictures.

Heh. "You too other turtle!"

Dyl's a busy boy. I see an early walker here.


Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 30, 2007 8:57:59 am PDT #4037 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

The Onion exactly nails my opinion of Big Shots: Finally, a show that boldly confronts the problems of wealthy white men.


Daisy Jane - Sep 30, 2007 9:13:38 am PDT #4038 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Happy birthday Allibelle!

Accomplished this weekend:
Picked up friend from airport
Got friend to her family's RV
Sent bottlecaps with friend to my mother
Cleaned out closet of clothes and shoes
Cleaned out makeup drawer and jewelry drawer
Attended Buffy sing along.

Now I just have to get dressed and make the anniversary party.


§ ita § - Sep 30, 2007 9:59:13 am PDT #4039 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Well, my goal for today is missed. I'm getting a cab home from krav since I'm too light-headed to teach or drive.


DavidS - Sep 30, 2007 10:33:00 am PDT #4040 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Awww, fuck, Matilda's birthday cake has suffered a total collapse of structural integrity. And I had the top layer all nice and together! But when I poured the chocolate icing onto it, everything startled to fall away.

But the butterscotch icing in the middle is very tasty. It'll taste good - it'll just look like a train wreck.

It's a yellow cake. Yellow cake may taste yum but it's not a strong as chocolate! Emmett's cake was far sturdier.


Theodosia - Sep 30, 2007 10:55:18 am PDT #4041 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"

On the bright side, Matilda's still young enough not to much notice cake aesthetics. I suspect it is the mission of all toddlers to smear as much icing on their faces as possible.

How did it get to be 4 PM already? Without, you know, me taking a nap or getting very much of anything done?


DavidS - Sep 30, 2007 10:57:37 am PDT #4042 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

On the bright side, Matilda's still young enough not to much notice cake aesthetics. I suspect it is the mission of all toddlers to smear as much icing on their faces as possible.

I'm not worried about her so much as the in-laws. Oh well. JZ will have her frosting decoration kit. I suppose we could plug rosettes into the gaps.


tommyrot - Sep 30, 2007 11:14:38 am PDT #4043 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

76-Year-Old Man With Purple Urine

You encounter some fascinating stuff reading the New England Journal of Medicine. Take NEJM's Image of the Week this week -- yes, yes in fact that is a bag of purple urine. Since you asked:

Purple discoloration can occur in alkaline urine as a result of the degradation of indoxyl sulfate (indican), a metabolite of dietary tryptophan, into indigo (which is blue) and indirubin (which is red) by bacteria such as Providencia stuartii, Klebsiella pneumoniae, P. aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, and enterococcus species. The clinical course is benign, and the urine typically clears with resolution of the bacteriuria and acidification of the urine.

Who knew?