But if the world doesn't end, I'm gonna need a note.

Cordelia ,'Potential'


Natter 56: ...we need the writers.  

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.


shrift - Jan 14, 2008 8:35:09 am PST #3007 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Hee! I just put on ¡Viva La Cobra! and cranked it, Plei.


Kathy A - Jan 14, 2008 8:42:16 am PST #3008 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

For any Chicagoans who love the fishes, the Shedd Aquarium is having Discount Week this week--free general admission, and the special exhibits such as the Oceanarium are discounted from the full price.


bon bon - Jan 14, 2008 8:45:42 am PST #3009 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

NYT questions the efficacy of exercise in keeping us healthy. Favorite quote:

I flove Gina Kolata. She's my favorite NYTer, because her whole job is challenging conventional wisdom. She writes mostly fitness and diet stuff now, but she used to have a more general science beat.


Cashmere - Jan 14, 2008 8:48:45 am PST #3010 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Cashmere, that's hysterical.

It's totally funny after the fact.

No. No. I mean its awful. Truly.

It was only awful in the first few minutes.

Ok, it's hysterical when I picture those two beautiful children going at a box of kitty litter like a pair of puppies. And you catching them and being horrified.

To Olivia's credit--she didn't eat any. Just flipped it around like sand. Owen dumped the entire box on the ground.

Does litter taste like anything? Besides rocks or sand or something? I mean, the dog is going after the cat poo (which is like caviar to them) but what is the kid logic? Sprinkles? Cookie crumbs? Gravel? Mmmmmm sand? Is it salty or something?

I have NO idea. But Owen has been watching Chicken Run and everything he eats is "chicken feed." As I was washing his mouth out this morning, he kept saying, "chicken feed." I assume he was pretending the litter was chicken feed. He's also very tactile and likes gritty stuff in his mouth. Still. GROSS.

OK, I feel like Anya and the skating monkeys. Not that your children are monkeys. It's the illogic that's so funny. And the sheer horror.

No. My children are monkeys. Funny, illogical monkeys.


Trudy Booth - Jan 14, 2008 8:53:57 am PST #3011 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

I have NO idea. But Owen has been watching Chicken Run and everything he eats is "chicken feed." As I was washing his mouth out this morning, he kept saying, "chicken feed." I assume he was pretending the litter was chicken feed. He's also very tactile and likes gritty stuff in his mouth. Still. GROSS.

Oooh! You should get a big jar of wheat germ and bribe him to be good with it.

"If you pick up those toys in the next ten minutes you can have some Chicken Feed!!!"


Sue - Jan 14, 2008 8:58:07 am PST #3012 of 10001
hip deep in pie

I am rapidly losing the small amount of concentration I had. I don't know how I'll make it through the rest of the day.

ION, it's just started snowing here. Small powdery flakes that look kind of fake.


tommyrot - Jan 14, 2008 8:58:54 am PST #3013 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.

Would it be good or bad to feed Owen some chicken pot pie?


Tom Scola - Jan 14, 2008 8:59:35 am PST #3014 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I flove Gina Kolata.

She came down pretty hard on the Good Calories, Bad Calories book that was being discussed in Bitches.


Cashmere - Jan 14, 2008 9:04:40 am PST #3015 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Would it be good or bad to feed Owen some chicken pot pie?

He says, "I don't want to be a pie!"


Aims - Jan 14, 2008 9:06:25 am PST #3016 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

"I don't like gravy!"