You never know if a girl's gonna say 'yes', or if she's gonna laugh in your face and pull out your still-beating heart and crush it into the ground with her heel.

Xander ,'Help'


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.


Jessica - May 07, 2008 6:30:40 am PDT #5302 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Bah. I just had a long post about how pointless the racism v sexism debate is, and the interbunny ate it.

(Short version: Remember the blogosphere dustup a while back about "Hillary Clinton has never been called a nigger" / "Barack Obama has never been called a cunt"? Why the fuck did anyone think that was an argument they wanted to have? What productive thing did they expect to get out of it???)


shrift - May 07, 2008 6:31:44 am PDT #5303 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Have been told to work on documentation. I think I'd rather quit than rewrite the steaming pile of crapulence that is the existing "manual".


Glamcookie - May 07, 2008 6:31:57 am PDT #5304 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

I was a bit cheap this year for Mother's Day - I just have too much going on. I got her two CDs - Best of Elvis Costello and Best of ELO. She's not one to buy music so I think they'll be well-received. I thought about flowers too, but I don't think she'll be around on the actual day.


Hil R. - May 07, 2008 6:32:29 am PDT #5305 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I'm not sure what to get my mom for mothers day. I was thinking about tickets to the Lincoln Center production of South Pacific, but they're pricy.


Jesse - May 07, 2008 6:32:45 am PDT #5306 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

In my family, Mother's Day is a card-only holiday. But god help me if I forget the card.

Note to self: Buy card!!


amych - May 07, 2008 6:33:46 am PDT #5307 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

In my family, Mother's Day is a card-only holiday.

Here, too. And thank doG you spoke up -- I was starting to feel like the world's worst daughter!


§ ita § - May 07, 2008 6:34:53 am PDT #5308 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I believe the U.S. is more racist, but it's more socially acceptable to be sexist.

I agree too. When push comes to shove the test will be in the ballot box.

I am so sick and fucking tired of seeing brilliant woman *settle,* when they should be running the goddamn joint

And on a flip side that less than a century after lynching was acceptable there's even half a chance a black person could get the gig? Amazing.

I just don't trust in it.

I had a panic that last Sunday was Mother's day. I'm so relieved to find out that it wasn't, but I'm not much better off with regards to what I'm actually going to do about it.


Lee - May 07, 2008 6:35:36 am PDT #5309 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Happy Birthjday Glamcookie!

if Obama REALLY wants Clinton to concede gracefully, he should promise to appoint her to the Supreme Court when he becomes President.

My initial reaction to this was "Ooh, shiny idea", but on second thought I don't love it. She has no judicial experience, and while I think she would be a better judge than Thomas, experience does matter, and I don't think she has the temperament to make a really good judge.

Personally, I believe the U.S. is more racist, but it's more socially acceptable to be sexist.

Definitely.

IOmemeNews, today is totally on the list. I woke up to no home internet (Comcast is having a service interruption), I left my iphone at home, which means I have no ipod unless I go back out to the car, and a button popped off my sweater at some point after I left the house and I can't find it, which means I'm going to have a clothing gap where there should not be a clothing gap all day.


Hil R. - May 07, 2008 6:35:47 am PDT #5310 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

My mom's birthday is at the end of May, so I usually end up getting something a bit more expensive than what I'd generally spend on a birthday present and making it a birthday/mothers day present.


Daisy Jane - May 07, 2008 6:35:59 am PDT #5311 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Happy birthday GC!

Is it wrong that I'm a little irked that the two people I was supposed to go to lunch with today to show off the office (especially since one of them helped get me this job and was saying how cool it would be to come up here) have decided it's better that I go to their office and we'll pick something up.

I mean, it's not their fault someone is out, but I'm a little disappointed.