healing-ma to ita. And a cluestick to the doctors.
I'm supposed to deliver you to the Master now. There's this whole deal where I get to be immortal. Are you cool with that?
Xander ,'Lessons'
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.
Sue - Dec 06, 2007 9:01:18 am PST #5989 of 10001
hip deep in pie
shrift - Dec 06, 2007 9:07:08 am PST #5990 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I sent an e-mail poke to Playboy, and now I have a response sitting in my inbox. I don't want to open it because I am dealing with enough emo cranky "wow, I suck" this week.
Dana - Dec 06, 2007 9:11:55 am PST #5991 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Open the e-mail, honey. Otherwise it will just taunt you with its unreadness.
If they offer you a job, we do a dance.
If they say thanks but no thanks, we make more porn jokes at their expense.
If they haven't made a decision yet, then at least you know what's what.
Trudy Booth - Dec 06, 2007 9:14:35 am PST #5992 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
Playboy just poked you back, Woman, OPEN IT
t /SPP
Cashmere - Dec 06, 2007 9:14:42 am PST #5993 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
It was originally intended to be a children's story, wasn't it?
Well, in the same sense that the original Little Mermaid story was, I suppose -- you know, the one where every step she takes with feet feels like walking on knives, and the prince doesn't marry her and she turns into... sea foam, I think? And that's a happy ending.
Well, it was a Disney DVD so I sort of thought the Matchstick Girl's story would be likewise Disneyfied. The Little Mermaid gets her man by sacrificing her voice, instead of giving up her comfortable life, her loving family and enduring stabbing pain with every step to dance at the wedding of the man she loves--who won't give her the time of day. Only to die in the end.*
The Little Match Girl's frozen corpse at the end of the cartoon wasn't upsetting for ME because I'm familiar with the story but I think younger kids would ask what was going on if they saw it.
*Yes, she gets an opportunity to gain a soul as a Child of the Air, etc., and all that inspirational yaddacakes. Which, I suppose is the meaning of The Little Match Girl--who sees wonderful visions of love and warmth by burning her matches and whose soul is taken to heaven by her dead grandmother in the end. Heathen that I am, I just see frozen corpse and seafoam at the end of these stories.
shrift - Dec 06, 2007 9:16:15 am PST #5994 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Open the e-mail, honey. Otherwise it will just taunt you with its unreadness.
Okay, fine, but you're the one who has to deal with me after I read it, you know.
Toddson - Dec 06, 2007 9:17:02 am PST #5995 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Hans Christian Andersen wasn't that big on happy endings, was he?
Dana - Dec 06, 2007 9:18:13 am PST #5996 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Okay, fine, but you're the one who has to deal with me after I read it, you know.
Well, it's that or work. I've got my e-mail open and my cell phone on.
shrift - Dec 06, 2007 9:20:40 am PST #5997 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Yeah, they hired someone else. Oh, well.
bon bon - Dec 06, 2007 9:21:56 am PST #5998 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I'm sorry, shrift.