I just read an article about Auden. When he was in America, he lived a few blocks away from where I live: [link]
He doesn't travel well. He's like fine shrimp.
Anya ,'Touched'
Natter 57 Varieties
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.
Tom Scola - Mar 18, 2008 9:35:13 am PDT #5744 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 18, 2008 9:37:35 am PDT #5745 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
there are lines that read like bad fanfic and make me giggle.
Like this: (spoiler fonted for dirtyness)
I sought for a slit in the gripper shorts that had charge
Of the basket I asked for.
Hayden - Mar 18, 2008 9:49:37 am PDT #5746 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
So, last night at dinner, Li'l Sphere got a faraway look on his face and proceeded to let loose an epic, two-full-minute burst of gas. In the stunned silence following the blessed event, he looked at his mother and said, as innocent as a 3-yr-old, "That was my butt! My butt is talking!"
At that point, his mom cracked up, but I was trying hard not to laugh, what with my parents coming to visit next weekend and the decline of polite society and God and the Bible and all. Anyway, she managed to ask him, "What did your butt say?"
He said, with his sweetest smile on his face, "It says, 'I love you, Mommy!'"
Sue - Mar 18, 2008 9:51:10 am PDT #5747 of 10001
hip deep in pie
L'il sphere is killing me ded.
Fred Pete - Mar 18, 2008 10:00:30 am PDT #5748 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
The thing that strikes me about Susan's quote is the conflation of the Continental Congress/Declaration of Independence and the Constitutional Convention/Constitution.
And while there may be some arguments that "tyranny" wasn't an inappropriate word, those arguments would relate more to taxes imposed by a Parliament to which the colonists couldn't send representatives and the actions of a King who, unlike his recent predecessors, actually tried to be a political power in his own right. In other words, increased responsibility without increased power, not so much religion.
msbelle - Mar 18, 2008 10:00:40 am PDT #5749 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
oh my. hilarious.
Allyson - Mar 18, 2008 10:05:20 am PDT #5750 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Oh, hey, I know I've been intermittent on posting, so forgive me if it's already been posted, but I just read that erinaceous' (and my agent, kate's) dad passed away in February. Did we do cards or anything? I don't have erinaceous' address to send a card, can someone who sees her pass one along if I send it?
I feel terrible, I just didn't know.
msbelle - Mar 18, 2008 10:09:19 am PDT #5751 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Allyson, I will email you.
sarameg - Mar 18, 2008 10:09:34 am PDT #5752 of 10001
Is your wife still slumped over the table, crying with laughter?
That's just too perfect.
Daisy Jane - Mar 18, 2008 10:10:05 am PDT #5753 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
"That was my butt! My butt is talking!"
Reminds me of that Em story, what was it? "NO! IT WAS MY BUTT!" I still laugh at that.