Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.

Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter  

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.


sumi - Dec 05, 2007 4:47:08 am PST #5641 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

If he didn't have to be golden, I'd say Taylor Kitsch. (Oh well.)

Happy Anniversary msbelle and Mac!


sarameg - Dec 05, 2007 4:49:40 am PST #5642 of 10001

It will be tedious and boring. Which isn't bad, per se, just...tedious and boring.


lisah - Dec 05, 2007 4:49:44 am PST #5643 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

Happy mac & msbelle day!!

A friend (with whom I tried it for the first time a few years back when we stumbled across it at the Sunset Grill) managed to find it at the suburban location of one of those big stores on Harvard Ave in Allston (I think it's another Marty's, but it might be a Blanchard's).

Sunset Grill! Marty's! Hey, wasn't Marty's the liquour store on the corner of Harvard & Comm Aves. that burned down? (and then was rebuit) My boyfriend's apartment was right next door and the firemen came through their apartment to get to the roof of the building to fight the fire (resulting in a scramble to HIDE THE WEED!). ah college nostalgia!

ION, my coffee is extra delicious this morning. mmm creamy!


Sparky1 - Dec 05, 2007 4:51:26 am PST #5644 of 10001
Librarian Warlord

Happy Familyversary msbelle and Mac!

I have a meeting scheduled from noon to 3 p.m. today and we're all hoping it's actually finished by 4 p.m. I prayed for a snow day today, but Snow Miser denied me.


Steph L. - Dec 05, 2007 4:53:57 am PST #5645 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Happy msbelle and mac Day!!! (My boss, who has adopted 2 girls from Guatemala, calls the day she met her daughters "Gotcha! Day" and also "Family Day.")

Proof that buffistaness is in the genes.

How did she get so big?!? It's unpossible!

My Christian Celtic punk band did a cover of "Three" years ago and it's a classic in my house.

The above sentence pretty much epitomizes why Liese (and her SO) KICK ASS.


tommyrot - Dec 05, 2007 5:05:32 am PST #5646 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.

Happy Uranian Equinox!

The last time Uranus experienced an equinox, planetary astronomer Heidi Hammel was in Kindergarten.

This time, at age 47, she is at the forefront of discoveries about its atmosphere and climate.

The reason Uranus' equinox is of such importance to Dr. Hammel and her fellow planetary astronomers is the planet's unusual inclination, 98 degrees, which means that its poles point nearly directly toward or away from the Sun at solstice, giving Uranus the most extreme seasonal changes in solar illumination by far among the other worlds of the Solar System.

Dr. Hammel has actually been studying the Uranian equinox for the past few years. The exact date is December 7, 2007, but the planet's long orbital period--about 84 years--means that it has been essentially in equinox for many months. Changes that take place on in a day on Earth take nearly three Earth months to unfold on Uranus. It's been the climatic equivalent of mid-September on Uranus since 2005.


msbelle - Dec 05, 2007 5:07:59 am PST #5647 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

We call Gotcha Day the day our case got through court and it was legal - that is in November.


Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 05, 2007 5:26:32 am PST #5648 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

Anyone know of any actor/athlete/etc. types who are young, blond, and handsome in a pretty-boy, not-too-bright way? This year the man-paper for my RWA Christmas party is turning into a collage of my WIP, and I've got not one but two actors apiece for my two bad-ass warrior male leads (one is Nathan Fillion with a touch of Sean Bean, the other Alexis Denisof with a trace of Christopher Eccleston), but I'd like to find someone to represent my pretty boy 19th century cabana boy who dies at the end of Book One.

Susan, how about Ryan Carnes? [link]


Kat - Dec 05, 2007 5:46:22 am PST #5649 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I love the idea of Gotcha Day. Happy msbelle and mac-iversary!

So, Noah, bless his heart, woke up at 3:00 AM. But wasn't fussy or mad or anything else. I only got him out of the crib because I was already up with insomnia. I fed him some and put him back in the crib. Where Little Man remained, nary a complaint, awake with his mobile and his stuffed animal for entertainment until 5:30, when K and I woke up again and got him.


P.M. Marc - Dec 05, 2007 5:46:29 am PST #5650 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Chris Carmack does have that Hi, I'm Beefcake! look down.

Though he still looks disturbingly like the central casting version of my high school friend Jeff.