Fred: Oh my God! Angel, you're…cute! Angel: Fred, don't! Fred: Oh, but the little hands! And the hair! Angel: Hey! You're fired.

'Smile Time'


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

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


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.