There are apparently quite a lot of people who claim to be skeptics who clearly have no real understanding of how to be skeptical.
CASE. IN. POINT: [link] (link is to CNN video stream)
Mal: We're still flying. Simon: That's not much. Mal: It's enough.
'Serenity'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
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.
Sean K - Jun 02, 2008 2:41:12 pm PDT #519 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Kat - Jun 02, 2008 3:14:27 pm PDT #520 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I want to write something witty and sweet. But my will to live has been zapped by 60 high school students.
Laga - Jun 02, 2008 3:20:25 pm PDT #521 of 10003
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Way late but I had to clarify my stance on "tourist pizza". I mean deep dish is where we'd go to eat when we had friends visiting from out of town. I love tourists, they are an essential part of Chicago's economy and I (mostly happily) drove them around for 18 months when I was a carriage driver.
Maybe I should have called deep dish "special occasion" pizza. What I crave is the everyday stuff, thin crust with plenty of tomato sauce that has actual flavor. (not that thin smear of paste that passes for sauce in California) You can have all the corner pieces, I like the middles. I actually miss that moment when you can't wait for the thing to cool down so you take a bite even though you know the sauce is going to ooze up through a hole in the cheese and burn the crap out of the roof of your mouth but it's worth it!
Steph L. - Jun 02, 2008 3:28:56 pm PDT #522 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
*I* was the one who wanted breakfast pizza!
Your names both start with S! How am I supposed to tell the difference, huh???
Anyway, it's too late now. You'll have to ask Tep if she's willing to share.
NEVER!!!! Oh, wait. You probably already clicked the link, didn't you? Dang! Also, YUM!
Maybe I should have called deep dish "special occasion" pizza. What I crave is the everyday stuff, thin crust with plenty of tomato sauce that has actual flavor.
Well, what you crave doesn't really define what kind of pizza Chicago is known for. And that sounds snotty, but I don't mean it to be; I can't think of any other way to word it, though.
Chicago is known for deep dish pizza, touristy or no. I'm sure lots of Chicagoans crave and eat thin/regular-crust pizza, but people outside of Chicago, when they think "Chicago-style pizza," think deep-deep-deep-dish, like Uno's or Giordano's.
Anyway. Now that I'm talking about pizza, my stir-fry is less than appealing. Bummer.
§ ita § - Jun 02, 2008 4:02:33 pm PDT #523 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Luckily yesterday's Thai food stood up to yesterday's pizza cravings. Don't know about leftovers, though, because the cravings haven't palled at all.
Watching Taboo about Extreme Entertainment--they posit that people who go to sideshows with sword-swallowing and the like go because they want to be there on the one night someone dies. Really? Don't you want to go and see how far they can go and *live*? Dying's pretty easy.
Cashmere - Jun 02, 2008 4:06:09 pm PDT #524 of 10003
Now tagless for your comfort.
Yes, I think I'd have long since resorted to yelling "That's it! I'm putting a lock on the toilet and you're wearing diapers until you can drive!"
The way I'm figuring it, is that the money I'm saving buying pull-ups is now going to the Roto Rooter guy. I'm comfortable that this will eventually pass. I would LOVE to be able to patrol the bathrooms but it's all but impossible.
Till this phase is over, RR is on speed dial.
§ ita § - Jun 02, 2008 4:52:19 pm PDT #525 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Am I getting old and boring? I swear, it is pretty. Bopping around that site I noticed a designer I'd shopped from before, but on etsy, which makes me think I do this sort of thing too much. But I'm in relative lockdown mode anyway, until I can get some more job certainty.
Still, pretty. Just quietly so. Says the woman in navy and black.
Pix - Jun 02, 2008 5:07:18 pm PDT #526 of 10003
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Well, what you crave doesn't really define what kind of pizza Chicago is known for. And that sounds snotty, but I don't mean it to be; I can't think of any other way to word it, though.
Laga is from Chicago. I wonder if pizza "norms" have changed? Or maybe it's a regional thing within the city?
ION, I have to write a goodbye letter to my 9th graders. It's the last thing I have to do before tomorrow. Would someone please motivate me to do it?
Ginger - Jun 02, 2008 5:10:14 pm PDT #527 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Dear 9th Graders:
It's been real. Have a nice life.
§ ita § - Jun 02, 2008 5:11:00 pm PDT #528 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Laga is from Chicago.
I think the distinction is that what's authentic local style need not be what an authentic local craves. But it's a fiddly semantic point.
I kept poking around that clothing site. I guess my clothing style is still...well, whatever. Remember when tommy (I think) linked to a page with these pants which I coveted mightily? I can't afford them. For shame.