So, last weekend, I apparently brought some fruit flies home with me from the farmer's market. Awesome. I found a thing on the interweb about making a fruit fly trap out of a soda bottle, and man, it really worked! Kind of cool, kind of gross.
Kaylee: H-how did you... g-get on...? Early: Strains the mind a bit, don't it? You think you're all alone. Maybe I come down the chimney, Kaylee. Bring presents to the good girls and boys.
'Objects In Space'
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 - Nov 01, 2007 2:22:59 pm PDT #9862 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
JZ - Nov 01, 2007 2:23:52 pm PDT #9863 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Are you shitting us, Allyson? What a fucking moron. Is he still the most tedious, least interesting person in all LJ-Land? That was the one notable quality I remember from all his carping posts about your book: even irritated, even deeply perturbed, even snarling in a towering snit, he was probably the dullest, least electrifying or compelling writer I'd ever read. His sentences were all perfectly grammatical, he punctuated beautifully, and he was a model of coherence, but good God almighty was he dull. His not liking your book made me suspect a great many things about him; his not liking Sarah Vowell just confirms all of it.
And on another track altogether, I'm crossing digits for shrift and Playboy. IIRC, another Buffista used to work for Playboy long ago (though likely in a different division), and if I do in fact RC, then shrift is a most worthy successor to said Buffista.
Jesse - Nov 01, 2007 2:27:12 pm PDT #9864 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I believe you do RC, JZ. BDV. XYZ.
We were talking about writing at the end of the day at work, and it's fascinating to me, the different skills that people have. My coworker was working on a letter, and she had a part that would have been great in a speech, actually, but on paper it was three fragments that didn't really come together, and I couldn't figure out how to make it grammatical and properly punctuated without rewriting and losing her nice cadence.
§ ita § - Nov 01, 2007 2:27:21 pm PDT #9865 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Cass - Nov 01, 2007 2:36:38 pm PDT #9866 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Neat places of burial.Cool!
lori - Nov 01, 2007 2:41:41 pm PDT #9867 of 10001
Those are cool. I've been to the first one, Newgrange! That was really impressive.
§ ita § - Nov 01, 2007 2:42:05 pm PDT #9868 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Allyson - Nov 01, 2007 3:10:20 pm PDT #9869 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
Yeah, I feel weirdly vindicated. I figure if Sarah is a social retard who pals around with Jon Stewart and Ira Glass, I should be so retarded.
Liese S. - Nov 01, 2007 3:28:29 pm PDT #9870 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Totally, Allyson.
And yeah, Steph, we're getting one, too. But we can't resist the penguin, what with the Penguins being his favorite sports team and all, so we're saving up. It'll be his Christmas present.
Sheryl - Nov 01, 2007 3:39:50 pm PDT #9871 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Happy Birthday Ginger!
What a maroon, Allyson.
Another weekend of music coming up. This time it's the local folklore society's annual getaway.