Cass, I hope that things can get better for your niece - I'm sure that spending time with you will help her, but from what you have said, it may not improve things with her mother.
Gunn: You ready? Fred: Is no an acceptable answer?
'Lineage'
Spike's Bitches 38: Well, This Is Just...Neat.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
WindSparrow - Nov 04, 2007 8:05:09 pm PST #2544 of 10002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Trudy Booth - Nov 04, 2007 8:11:15 pm PST #2545 of 10002
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
(I can't even find any logical reason to keep reading it. The letters sections are full of people saying "I've been dating using your methods for a year now," but very few people who complete that sentence with "and I met the person I'm going to marry." Because these dating methods are nuts. It's explicitly stated that the point is to get engaged within six months or a year.)
Where do they address the "someone asks my ass out" part?
Burrell - Nov 04, 2007 8:15:20 pm PST #2546 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I dunno, Hil, I think cultural identity finds a way of replicating itself, but maybe that's the half-Jew in me talking.
megan walker - Nov 04, 2007 8:19:34 pm PST #2547 of 10002
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I dunno, Hil, I think cultural identity finds a way of replicating itself, but maybe that's the half-Jew in me talking.
Case in point. My mother married someone who never learned French and she never spoke to me in French growing up. And yet, after a brief stint in business school and investment counsulting, I eventually became a French professor, and now an editor of French books. The blood, she is strong.
Hil R. - Nov 04, 2007 8:21:10 pm PST #2548 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I dunno, Hil, I think cultural identity finds a way of replicating itself, but maybe that's the half-Jew in me talking.
Do you think your kids will identify as Jewish?
(I can't find a way to ask that question that doesn't sound accusatory. But that's totally not how I meant it. Mostly, just curious. Most of my cousins within my generation -- I'm the youngest of my generation, and some of the "my generation" cousins are close to twenty years older than me -- married non-Jews, and only one of them is raising the kids Jewish. The others bring their kids to Grandma's for Passover and Chanukah, but they have Christmas and Easter at home.)
BigDuluth - Nov 04, 2007 8:45:55 pm PST #2549 of 10002
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"
It's annoying, because I can't even imagine putting myself out there if I was completely against the idea of a relationship. What's the point?I am Gris and it drives me up a damn wall!
I wanted someone who was madly in love with me for a change. Turns out I'm way happier when I don't have to second guess the relationship.Agreed. It's just a matter of it being nice to know where things stand.
Burrell - Nov 04, 2007 8:50:43 pm PST #2550 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Do you think your kids will identify as Jewish?
In some ways I'm a better test case for your point since I was raised by one Jewish parent and one Catholic one, and tend to identify more strongly as culturally Jewish than I do as Catholic. That said, several of my Jewish friends insist I am NOT Jewish, and most of my Catholic friends will point out I'm NOT Catholic either, so consider all labels self-identified. As for how my kids will identify, I don't know, right now they are being raised as I was, without membership in a particular church or temple. But we do celebrate some Jewish traditions as well as Christian ones.
Several of my friends are *more* religious than their parents were. I can see why they wanted to marry Jews. But yeah, I guess I find it confusing that someone who hasn't been to temple or celebrated a seder in years feels compelled to marry a Jew. A preference I can understand, that's more about being with someone who comes from the same background.
Hil R. - Nov 04, 2007 9:05:08 pm PST #2551 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Several of my friends are *more* religious than their parents were. I can see why they wanted to marry Jews. But yeah, I guess I find it confusing that someone who hasn't been to temple or celebrated a seder in years feels compelled to marry a Jew.
Religious observance isn't really a terribly good indication of cultural identification. I know plenty of people who aren't observant at all, but they certain identify as Jewish and want their kids and grandkids and so on to, too. (Actually, from the early 1900s through the 1950s, that would have described a pretty big portion of the Jews in NYC -- from the socialists who held Yom Kippur balls through the people who were just not religious but knew that they were Jewish in the same way that their neighbors were Irish or Italian.)
Laga - Nov 04, 2007 9:21:20 pm PST #2552 of 10002
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Aww Brian and Stewie are at the Art Institute of Chicago. But that Picasso isn't in the same room with that Seurat anymore. Oh duh they're doing Ferris Beuller.
omnis_audis - Nov 04, 2007 9:29:22 pm PST #2553 of 10002
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
the long awaited cat video. Hopefully it's worth the long wait. [link]