Or maybe you could just be Buffy, he'll see your amazing heart, and he'll fall in love with you.

Xander ,'Get It Done'


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.


megan walker - May 08, 2008 9:49:41 am PDT #5621 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

This, exactly. I've been more and more disappointed with the tone of her campaign over the last two months, but this is the capper.

Tep and Kristin are me. Although I still worry about
1) what the Republican slime machine will throw at Obama
and
2) that Obama's "hope" is the new "compassionate conservatism"


Jesse - May 08, 2008 9:52:28 am PDT #5622 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

My 3pm interview just called to say she thinks she'll be about 5 minutes late. Good that she called, or bad that she's late?


Susan W. - May 08, 2008 9:53:04 am PDT #5623 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

I'm no fan of George Will, but he delivers the kind of cutting snark I normally expect from Stephen Colbert here: [link]

Favorite quote:

Or perhaps she wins if Obama's popular vote total is, well, adjusted, by counting each African-American vote as only three-fifths of a vote. There is precedent, of sorts, for that arithmetic (see the Constitution, Article I, Section 2, before the 14th Amendment).


Atropa - May 08, 2008 9:53:13 am PDT #5624 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

From a ways back, because I'm catching up:

It is that rarity, a phenomenon with the potential to capture a wider audience, offering a genteel and disciplined alternative to both the slack look of hip-hop and the menacing spirit of goth.

Jilli is "menacing"?

I've been told I can be, and that it's very disturbing because no one expects menacing from a cupcake goth.

I'm tickled by the NYT article on Steampunk, because they quoted a friend of mine. Now if I could just get it through all the Steampunkers' heads that no, really kids, you don't need to invent a persona or character to dress up in wacky clothes. Just wear the damn outfits!


Daisy Jane - May 08, 2008 9:53:14 am PDT #5625 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

2) Obama's "hope" is the new "compassionate conservatism"

I don't think so. I was here when Bush was Gov. and could've told y'all the hard candy outside, squishy inside was crap.


Dana - May 08, 2008 9:53:36 am PDT #5626 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

What's her reason for being late? As long as it's not stupid, I say it's good that she called. Shit happens.


Allyson - May 08, 2008 9:53:37 am PDT #5627 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

YAY!

[link]

Kat, you get in free, due to the whole giving birth thing. I don't know any other localista moms, though. But I assume one can adopt a small child from some other mom for the weekend for the free admission.

Crap, I forget Burrell is a momista.


Kat - May 08, 2008 9:54:53 am PDT #5628 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

My 3pm interview just called to say she thinks she'll be about 5 minutes late. Good that she called, or bad that she's late?

Both! It would have been worse if she had been late and didn't call. Yet, bad that she's late.


Glamcookie - May 08, 2008 9:55:28 am PDT #5629 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

Did any of you hear NPR's story about the biological superiority of early motherhood and the nascence of stay-at-home moms? For obvious reasons it touched a nerve with me.

I knew I shouldn't have read that. But I did and agree with you Kat.


Kat - May 08, 2008 9:57:34 am PDT #5630 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

At least you didn't listen to it, GC. That (and being very very late for work and stuck in traffic on Sherman Way) set me off. The Science Daily piece is a nice antidote!