I have no AC and am dying from the heat. It's not supposed to be 90 degrees at the end of October, dammit.
Mal: You were dead! Tracy: Hunh? Oh. Right. Suppose I was. Hey there, Zoe.
'The Message'
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.
Pix - Oct 23, 2007 9:23:53 am PDT #8175 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
§ ita § - Oct 23, 2007 9:31:27 am PDT #8176 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have your AC, Kristin. I'd happily give it back too. Cardigan for indoors, wrapped around waist outdoors.
tommyrot - Oct 23, 2007 10:05:09 am PDT #8177 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.
The following video link (via Making Light) is either very effective satire, or has a target market (pun intended) of future Darwin Award winners.
"Many customers are buying one for each side of the bed."
Heh.
tommyrot - Oct 23, 2007 10:13:50 am PDT #8178 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.
It's not a real proposal, but someone has come up with a provocative new genre, Squidpunk.
Fiction that unlike New Weird, Steampunk, or Slipstream, is at its core not only about squid, but about the symbolism of squid as color-changing, highly-mobile, alien-looking, intelligent ocean-goers. As a powerful ecosystem indicator, the squid is a potent symbol for environmental rejuvenation. Squidpunk is almost exclusively set at sea and must contain some reference to either cephalopods or to anything that thematically relates to squid, in terms of world iconography and tropes. Squidpunk is never escapist or whimsical. It is always serious and edgy. This combination of a hard punk aesthetic with the fluid propulsion system common to the squid has produced a unique literary hybrid beloved by Mundanes and Surrealists alike.
shrift - Oct 23, 2007 10:37:18 am PDT #8179 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I need to learn how to play the guitar so I can start a band named Squidpunk.
tommyrot - Oct 23, 2007 10:39:19 am PDT #8180 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.
And if the Squidpunk genre ever takes off, you'll get built-in publicity.
While you're at it, you should learn to play a 10-string guitar....
eta: You could do songs like, "Taste My Ink, Motherfucker!"
Trudy Booth - Oct 23, 2007 10:40:27 am PDT #8181 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
a squidpunk bit my sister
shrift - Oct 23, 2007 10:43:39 am PDT #8182 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
And we'd totally have to do the Fruity Oaty Bar song.
Sophia Brooks - Oct 23, 2007 10:47:28 am PDT #8183 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Fruity Oaty Bar song.
Now I have an earworm!
§ ita § - Oct 23, 2007 11:39:25 am PDT #8184 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think I have a shady Fedex guy. Turns out the number he left me on the door tag was his cell, and then he asked if I could meet him somewhere to get my package. It was just shoes--not like it was something like porn. And now I've still not gotten it because he managed to show up in the heartbeat when my neighbour wasn't answering her door.