awwwww. One of the guys at work just sent me this enormous file. He was at the Hollywood Bowl last night and saw Sting and Elvis Costello. They did a duet of Alison and he took a video and sent it to me.
AWESOME
Wow, you've really mastered the power of positive giving-up.
Cordelia ,'End of Days'
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.
Allyson - May 28, 2008 11:18:15 am PDT #9436 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
Kat - May 28, 2008 11:18:51 am PDT #9437 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
The water shoes are nifty!
Did I mention that we stopped at the Zappo's Outlet yesterday? It confused me.
sumi - May 28, 2008 11:19:49 am PDT #9438 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Allyson - that is totally awesome!
Jesse - May 28, 2008 11:20:53 am PDT #9439 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I fixed the link for yours, Jesse.
Yeah, no.
I would totally take a placebo for myself!
msbelle - May 28, 2008 11:22:41 am PDT #9440 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
yeah, I wouldn't give the placebo. I am trying to teach mac that sometimes things just hurt. Closest I get is offering ice up for almost everything. My guess, that woman will make a mint though.
Kat - May 28, 2008 11:24:48 am PDT #9441 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
how is giving a sugar pill actually different than some of the homeopathic remedies (like teething tablets)?
msbelle - May 28, 2008 11:26:54 am PDT #9442 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
dunno, maybe not different at all.
§ ita § - May 28, 2008 11:28:11 am PDT #9443 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This week's Secret Lives of Women is about stalking--both stalking and being stalked. Seriously chilling stuff.
Random stats: 1 million women in the US are stalked a year. 1 in 4 female stalkers stalk someone they've been intimate with. 1 in three celebrity stalkers are female.
I think I'd give a kid a placebo. Under specific and limited circumstances. I totally recommend giving me a cplacebo, as long as they are only used when they work.
I am having such a huge craving for lemonade. Sadly I have lemonade, so it comes down to self-control.
lisah - May 28, 2008 11:28:18 am PDT #9444 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
yeah, I wouldn't give the placebo. I am tryin got teach mac that sometimes things just hurt.
Yes! That's the thing that bugs me most about it. Pain has a purpose! And learning to rely on drugs to fix everything can't be good. There was a commentary on NPR yesterday by a family physician about the placebo thing. He was very anti.
Nutty - May 28, 2008 11:30:50 am PDT #9445 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
If I'd had placebo pills available when I was a child, I probably wouldn't have faked being sick so much just to get a spoonful of Dimetapp.
I was ridiculously addicted to the flavor of Dimetapp. I don't know why. Yes, the obsession is now past.
I'm not sure, though, that you need a brand-name pill; all you really need is some of those custom-M&Ms with no Ms on them, and all you have to do is convince the kid that "strengthening medicine" (what we really called them in my family) is not a joke but the real straight-up truth.