It's a real burden being right so often.

Mal ,'Bushwhacked'


Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!  

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.


Hayden - Apr 14, 2008 11:37:21 am PDT #1705 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

That sounds terrifying. Ugh!

If that was directed at me and not at the potty-training, I'm sure it was all in my head. I mean, it was in Montgomery, which isn't exactly a thriving metropolis, and the tunnel couldn't have been all that large. It was near an elementary school and a middle school, so I'm sure there was no real danger. And these days I can even say "fuck" without nearly peeing myself!


§ ita § - Apr 14, 2008 11:38:19 am PDT #1706 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Corwood, you've set off shivers of sympathy off in me.


Hayden - Apr 14, 2008 11:41:45 am PDT #1707 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Ah, it's all Freudian ancient history. Think of what Hitchcock could've done with it, though!


Aims - Apr 14, 2008 11:41:58 am PDT #1708 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

HOW. HOW DID YOU GET HIM TO USE THE THING???????????????

Honey - ship her here for two weeks this summer. When you have her back, she'll be potty trained.

Better yet, I'll take two weeks this summer and bring Em. We'll help you get settled after the move.

And at some point, leave Pete and P alone with both girls for hours while you and Jilli and I shop.


Jesse - Apr 14, 2008 11:44:10 am PDT #1709 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yep. In my hometown, you drank and blew shit up until you were old enough to drive. Then you drove out to a different field to drink and blow shit up, and maybe take a baseball bat to some mailboxes on the way home for a little something different.

So, this is common, then? That sounds just like where she's from.

If that was directed at me and not at the potty-training, I'm sure it was all in my head.

It's doesn't matter -- scary is scary!


Scrappy - Apr 14, 2008 11:46:28 am PDT #1710 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Yeah, but it's good for kids to deal with scary--especially all-in-the-head scary, because then they learn you can be scared and keep going. That's an important lesson. Parents have to keep kids safe but allow them to face real fear and conquer it. You parents have a TOUGH JOB.


juliana - Apr 14, 2008 11:46:42 am PDT #1711 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

Yep. In my hometown, you drank and blew shit up until you were old enough to drive. Then you drove out to a different field to drink and blow shit up, and maybe take a baseball bat to some mailboxes on the way home for a little something different.

Drank, smoked up, and burned things. Then we drove to the river or to the shale heaps and gravel pits and drank, smoked up, and burned things. So yeah, I'd say common.


lisah - Apr 14, 2008 11:47:05 am PDT #1712 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

It's doesn't matter -- scary is scary!

Childhood is often terrifying!


Jesse - Apr 14, 2008 11:47:31 am PDT #1713 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm still creeped out by Bruce Springsteen singing "I'm On Fire," because when I first heard it I thought it was actually about a man sneaking into a little girl's room and something about a knife etc etc.


DavidS - Apr 14, 2008 11:47:37 am PDT #1714 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Childhood is often terrifying!

That's why kids need German fairytales.