We're taking a moment ... and we're done.
Oz ,'Chosen'
Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Laga - Mar 30, 2008 6:13:48 pm PDT #2407 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
WindSparrow - Mar 30, 2008 6:17:55 pm PDT #2408 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
My mother's mother was Gram. My father's mother was referred to as "Farmer Granny" (made sense, she owned and ran a farm) in conversation, and addressed as Gramma. I knew (briefly) my father's stepfather as Grampa Lastname. Never knew my mother's father nor her stepfather.
Laga. I am more sorry that your sister is pulling this crap than I was sorry to hear about all the crap her husband had pulled. Crap, crap, crap. For your family's harmony, it is probably well and good that I shall never be anywhere near her. This kind of placing responsibility for one's own life onto other people is a hot-button issue with me, and I would so not have the self-control to mind my own business. In my book it is vampiric behavior, and I am furious on your parents' behalf.
omnis_audis - Mar 30, 2008 6:27:57 pm PDT #2409 of 10001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Cass & Jilli at the Vampire BallI hope they asked permission to snap those ;)
Hey, so there I was doing dishes with the Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 playing on the TV jamming. Jeff Beck comes up to play, and a bass solo ensues. I step out of the kitchen wondering who the heck is that? To my surprise a young lady is JAMMIN' like a mo-fo on the bass. I sat down to watch, dishes be damned. Anyone else hear of Tal Wilkenfeld? I just downloaded her only solo work from iTunes. I was impressed from the kitchen on crappy TV speakers. To learn she is only 21 and playing bass for like 3 or 4 years! Paint me impressed!
OK, back to dishes. Plus, God is playing now. Must listen.
Ginger - Mar 30, 2008 6:53:19 pm PDT #2410 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I love the pictures of Frisco and his dad.
Maria!
Remember my two college friends whose brothers had cancer? One died. There's a nice column about him [link] I wish I knew what to say. I wish I could actually *do* something, but she's in Dallas and I am not. A card seems so completely useless.
beth b - Mar 30, 2008 7:06:05 pm PDT #2411 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
o_a we took your advice and went out and listened to Tal on the web - 21? Imagine where she can go ...
meara - Mar 30, 2008 8:44:48 pm PDT #2412 of 10001
I find the Grandma [LastName] thing so odd--like, very formal. Do other people not feel that way?
Meemaw and Peepaw; Mamaw and Pappaw
I definitely feel like a lot of people I knew back home had grandparents with names like these--is it an Indiana thing? A southern thing? An appalachian thing?
Now I want to see pictures of Queen Latifah. Must google. Am still upset by how Janeane Garofalo looks these days. NOT RIGHT.
Pix - Mar 30, 2008 9:28:55 pm PDT #2413 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
My grandparents were always Gramma & Grandpa [last name] and Grammy & Grandpa [last name]. Never felt at all formal for us.
Fay - Mar 30, 2008 9:35:22 pm PDT #2414 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I just found out my sister is blaming my parents for her marriage because they didn't do enough to try and stop her.
OMGWTF? Sorry, no. No. No, you don't get to blame mum and dad if you marry the wrong guy. Because if you're old enough to get married, then you're old enough to take responsibility for that damn decision! And if you're not old enough to take responsibility for that damn decision? Then DON'T GET MARRIED!!!!
Sorry, but your sister does sound like she needs smacking into the middle of next week.
t /aggressive bitca.
eta - I'm sorry that it didn't work out, incidentally, and I know that it OFTEN doesn't work out, whether you're talking marriage or relationship. I don't mean to belittle the pain of that. But - you don't get to blame your mum and dad, imho. Or your best friend. Or the priest/rabbi/elvis impersonator who officiated at the ceremony. You really, really don't. Nuh-uh.
Meanwhile - loving the Vampire Ball photos! Adorable!
I have little to add to the grandparent discussion, beyond the fact that my grandmother is known as Nana. Can't remember what we called my Dad's Mum, but I think it may have been Nanny - she died when I was very wee. Ditto his Dad - I'm guessing Grandpa? Granddad?
eta Also - anybody out there had experience of a weird, fizzy/crackly noise in their ear? My left ear, as of yesterday morning and still today, is sporadically giving me a weird crackling noise, like static, or like the sound of bubble bath bubbles bursting.
Googling suggests that it may be Eustachian Tube Disfunction??!!?
Sean K - Mar 30, 2008 9:39:45 pm PDT #2415 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Cass & Jilli at the Vampire Ball - [link]
Now there is a sight for sore eyes.
Trudy Booth - Mar 30, 2008 9:52:00 pm PDT #2416 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 find the Grandma [LastName] thing so odd--like, very formal. Do other people not feel that way?
I don't think I addressed them with "Gramma Booth", I just called her Gramma and referred to her as Gramma Booth when clarity was needed.
(Though, on occassions when all the grands were present I probably addressed them as Gramma Booth and Gramma NotBooth, etc.)