Whoo-hoo! The Chicago Shakespeare Theater has won this year's regional Tony!! That makes Chicago the first city to win four regional awards (Steppenwolf Theatre in 1985, Goodman Theatre in 1992, and Victory Gardens Theater won in 2001).
Xander ,'Lessons'
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.
they probably didn't want a giant stone cross looming over them in their townhouse, y'know? It probably makes starting out as newlyweds feel a little Spanish Inquisition.
But they were introduced by Rove so perhaps a Spanish Inquisition vibe is appropriate?
entering dishes with lots of ingrediants is so tiresome on fitday.
And now I just finished one of those things that was really late, so I kept putting it off more and more, since, you know, maybe everyone would forget? EXCEPT THEY DON'T. And actually finishing it was actually to my advantage, but just ugh. Is the thing.
In my world, ugh is always the thing.
every language and dialect is rule-bound*.
Nutty, I was thinking that in fact lolspeak would provide a perfect example for explaining Chomsky stuff. Because nobody sat down to write the lolspeak grammar, and none of you ever sat down to learn it -- but you KNOW when something is wrong.
Yes, I said "Chomsky stuff." I'm not sure why. Here I mean Chomsky grammar stuff, not Chomsky politics stuff, or Chomsky, what, nuclear hydrodynamics stuff.
In my world, ugh is always the thing.
Seriously.
Tep, amych, I can only sidestep into my best Christine Lavin voice and say, "What was he thinking?" Giving a gift to someone with the idea of keeping it at your house is stilll very much WTF.
I just found out that one of the contestants on American Gladiators is, unwittingly, FUCKING UP MY LIFE!
huh, turns out that making a salad dressing with a base of .25 cup of olive oil throws off my fat intake. I mean, this is a big salad, it is 3 meals as the only entree, but still, .07 of a cup is too much. grr.