I went to the market today and found little individual serving containers of Ben & Jerry's ice cream. They had a ton of different flavors and they come with their own plastic spoon. I'm eating one now, AIFG!
What? I'm not allowed to hit people? Wesley: Not people capable of genocide. Angel: Those are exactly the types of people I should be allowed to hit!
'Just Rewards (2)'
Spike's Bitches 41: Thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
sj - Jul 21, 2008 1:40:44 pm PDT #7833 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
omnis_audis - Jul 21, 2008 3:14:55 pm PDT #7834 of 10001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Survived the memorial. It went well. Lots of long time family friends there.Good to hear. Take it easy, and take care of yourself. It's rougher than you think, but it does get better. And know we are here for you.
omnis, Mr. Jane would like your number to hang out sometime. I figured it would be fine, but I wanted to check and also get it again, since I seem to have deleted that email.Insent!
I went to the market today and found little individual serving containers of Ben & Jerry's ice cream. They had a ton of different flavors and they come with their own plastic spoon. I'm eating one now, AIFG!Oh man! Now I'm regretting not going to the supermarket. I probably should for that. The thing that got me all in a "I don't feel like being in public" mood... the primary computer for playing back sounds in the shows. Well. There is a good reason why I couldn't find where they stored it. They didn't store it. It was stolen over the summer. Ya. Nice. Good news is, I get to build a computer that is far better. Bad news is, there goes my budget.
Off to cook dinner. It looks like my home internet is working. Lets see if the TV is too!
Barb - Jul 21, 2008 3:17:01 pm PDT #7835 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
::blinks::
Just seen on Publisher's Marketplace.
Fiction: General/Other Will Self's LIVER: A FICTIONAL ORGAN WITH A SURFACE ANATOMY OF FOUR LOBES, interconnected stories exploring the impact of disease and decay on the human liver, to Kathy Belden at Bloomsbury,
All this time I've been wondering WTF I'm doing wrong, that I'm not selling my adult work. Now I'm just wondering WTF.
:shakes head::
beth b - Jul 21, 2008 3:19:12 pm PDT #7836 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I knew you'd survive, Drew.Long slow deep breath before you even decide what is next. Love to you and yours
Glad to hear things were better then expected Connie.
And O_A it sounds like your move is good.
amych - Jul 21, 2008 3:19:33 pm PDT #7837 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I've wondered WTF about a lot of his stuff over the years.
Barb - Jul 21, 2008 3:22:44 pm PDT #7838 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
I'm not familiar with his other work, amy-- is it as, erm... WTF as LIVER sounds?
Also spotted-- VAMPIRE SUFFRAGETTE-- a young woman in NYC in the twenties working for equality for all, including the undead. I thought they'd hit the vampire limit with the Jane Austen as vampire story, but apparently, I was wrong.
brenda m - Jul 21, 2008 3:36:44 pm PDT #7839 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I wonder if that's part of some viral marketing thing? There're ads at bus stops all over Chicago for some blood-based energy drink marketed at vampires. I keep meaning to poke around and find out what that's all about.
amych - Jul 21, 2008 3:36:44 pm PDT #7840 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Self is one of those writers of very clever and pointy literary satire who always seems to be walking a super-fine line between "possibly almost brilliant" and "dude, get over yourself". The WTF is often in the subject matter (Wikipedia descriptions):
* Cock and Bull (1992) — the stories of a man and a woman who develop sexual organs of the opposite sex.
* My Idea of Fun (1993) — a lonely boy grows up just outside Brighton in a caravan park with his over-sexual mother and Mr Broadhurst who takes the boy on a disturbing and often violent journey.
* Great Apes (1997) — a man wakes up in a world where chimpanzees evolved to be the species with self-awareness, while humans are the equivalent of chimps in our world.
* How the Dead Live (2000) — an old lady dies, only to be moved to a London suburb where the dead have taken residence.
* The Book of Dave (2006) — The story of a London cab driver who suffers a mental breakdown due to failed relationships, estrangement from his son and an obsession with The Knowledge. He writes a book of rantings which he buries, that is discovered 500 years later and used as the sacred text for a religion that has taken hold in the flooded remnants of London.
Gadget_Girl - Jul 21, 2008 3:37:28 pm PDT #7841 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
{{{{{Drew, PixK and family}}}}} You all were on my mind all day. I'm glad things went as well as they did. This is, indeed, a Monday-ist of Monday's.
Amy - Jul 21, 2008 3:42:48 pm PDT #7842 of 10001
Because books.
Great Apes (1997) — a man wakes up in a world where chimpanzees evolved to be the species with self-awareness, while humans are the equivalent of chimps in our world.
Isn't that ... Planet of the Apes ?