Goddammit, I just found out that a friend of ours from the filk community died in a house fire last night. His wife and stepdaughter weren't home at the time, but they've lost everything.
2008, you're on notice.
Hey! What a surprise! Hostile 17! Can I get you a drink, Hostile 17?
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
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.
Sheryl - Jan 27, 2008 3:49:32 pm PST #5753 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
§ ita § - Jan 27, 2008 3:54:13 pm PST #5754 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How old is Miss P? She seems wise beyond...well, not just her years. I've been told of a lot of childish behaviour this weekend.
Watching the Fight Science MMA ep. Ah, Bas Rutten, how you make me laugh. I've never met him, but most of the instructors just before me have (some of them went on his Las Vegas stag night) and he's true to the tales.
I've stolen some of the principles for teaching the straight punch. It's a refinement of what I've said before, as well as an elevation above folk science. Confirmation and edification.
sarameg - Jan 27, 2008 3:57:17 pm PST #5755 of 10001
She's 7.5. It may be par for that age, I don't know.
Dana - Jan 27, 2008 4:21:43 pm PST #5756 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I'm sorry, Sheryl. That's scary and sad.
§ ita § - Jan 27, 2008 4:35:37 pm PST #5757 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Doesn't sound par at all to me. I think she should be okay. I don't think you get to be that sensible just by luck.
Sheryl, that's awful.
If anyone's breath was bated, the krav guy is in the Special Forces episode. It's just the start, but Brent seems to be hiding so far. Amir Perets (he's also in the Drillbit Taylor trailer) and Dugas have made brief appearances.
§ ita § - Jan 27, 2008 5:17:56 pm PST #5758 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Looks like we only got two of our people on the show. But what's really traumatising is the way they talk about Amir's speed during a perfectly normal krav technique. I may just up and quit. I feel flatly humbled. Yikes.
sarameg - Jan 27, 2008 5:19:52 pm PST #5759 of 10001
Miss P has always amazed me, and I'm not sure how much is that sh's just my first "niece." Her brother is about the same age as D, and ...well, he's like D. Fun kid. A little problematic on volume right now, but that's the age.
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Oh jesus. Just talked to the parents. Their cleaner's niece was kidnapped down in Juarez. For a 55K ransom. She's been missing over a couple months. There is no proof of life. It's appallingly common, and rarely ends well. I mean, the Mexican gov't sent in the army because the police either were outgunned or complicit. The latest chief of police is in the hospital in El Paso under mexican & US armed guard after surviving an assassination attempt. Whether it was tried because he was clean or dirty is unknown.
It's all kinds of wrong.
Burrell - Jan 27, 2008 5:26:44 pm PST #5760 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I tivoed both episodes, ita, but good to know which episode they are in. I might peek at the MMA one anyway.
I made steak for dinner. It felt very decadent.
Frances has spent most of the evening pretending that she's an OB. She has DH & I playacting various stages of pregnancy, birth, and post partum. She helped us give birth, then she swaddled the babies and she gave mine a bottle. She gave DH's baby some broth.
Burrell - Jan 27, 2008 5:28:38 pm PST #5761 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
oh sarameg, that is brutal. How awful.
Jesse - Jan 27, 2008 5:30:26 pm PST #5762 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
God, Sara, that's terrifying.
She helped us give birth, then she swaddled the babies and she gave mine a bottle. She gave DH's baby some broth.
Cute!