This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?

Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'


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.


Zenkitty - Oct 29, 2007 6:11:13 am PDT #9029 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Happy birthday, aurelia!

Wait. Black pudding isn't pudding? It's blood? Oh, ew.

Today has not started out well. I'm behind on two projects, and really need to spend this week catching up, and now I'm informed that my participation is critical in a series of all-day meetings lasting for three days this week. WTF? You guys knew about this three months ago and today you're telling me about it? Well, fine. Let's see who I can get to do my work for me.

Welcome to Monday, Buffistae! Hope yours is better than mine.


DavidS - Oct 29, 2007 6:12:35 am PDT #9030 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I wish I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up.

May I suggest: Cardboard Tube Champion!


Kat - Oct 29, 2007 6:13:14 am PDT #9031 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

shrift, unfortunately everything I want to be and everything I have skills for does not pay particularly well. It's a bummer.

Which is my way of saying, good luck.


Jesse - Oct 29, 2007 6:14:39 am PDT #9032 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

You guys knew about this three months ago and today you're telling me about it? Well, fine.

Good lord.


Steph L. - Oct 29, 2007 6:20:25 am PDT #9033 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

ION, I think I need one of these. I love Eli the seltzer man, but we've been getting more and more dud bottles from him lately. Plus there's the carrying 10 glass bottles of seltzer up 4 flights of stairs every week.

Jess, are we reading the same blogs? Because just last week I read about the seltzer machine, and since I have an addiction to seltzer (I buy 4-5 two-liter bottles a week), I am SO buying one of those machines.


shrift - Oct 29, 2007 6:21:00 am PDT #9034 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

May I suggest: Cardboard Tube Champion!

What's the compensation on that?

shrift, unfortunately everything I want to be and everything I have skills for does not pay particularly well.

Yeah, it only takes about an hour searching Craigslist to convince me that I have no marketable skills.


Steph L. - Oct 29, 2007 6:23:13 am PDT #9035 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I'm making Buckeyes (yes, Steph! BUCKEYES!)

Nom nom nom.


Kat - Oct 29, 2007 6:24:58 am PDT #9036 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

There was a Buckeye disaster. The peanut butter was way too sweet. This has the advantage of meaning I can eat a part of a buckeye and be all, "okay, way too much." I took the dozen I made, packaged them in boxes and they will be given away.


brenda m - Oct 29, 2007 6:26:04 am PDT #9037 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Ooh, I want one of those seltzer things. And they come in penguin! [link]


Liese S. - Oct 29, 2007 6:27:18 am PDT #9038 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Buckeye disaster! Oh, noes!

Damn. Suddenly I'm nostalgic for the midwest. Guess it's a good thing it's the holiday season.

Ooh, which reminds me, Steph, I'll be in your hood next month...Nov. 14th - 18th. Will you be around and not crazy occupied between the moving and the dad and the life and everything? The SO & I would love to see you.