ND, did you see upthread that I dreamed about you (and PixKristin, and Stephen Hawking) last night? You were, sadly, not wearing your kilt (just in normal jeans).
Willow: Something evil-crashed to earth in this. Then it broke out and slithered away to do badness.
Giles: Well, in all fairness, we don't really know about the "slithered" part. Anya: No, no, I'm sure it frisked about like a fluffy lamb.
'Never Leave Me'
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.
Kathy A - Jul 16, 2008 8:18:29 am PDT #8084 of 10003
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Strega - Jul 16, 2008 8:19:58 am PDT #8085 of 10003
Of all the things PZ blogs about on a daily basis, this is what gets the death threats?
Well, he also asked people to send him some some communion wafers so he could desecrate them, so I don't think it was just mentioning snackfoods that upset people. But, yeah. The whole thing started with the guy in FL who was holding the body of Christ hostage in its cracker form so the whole topic was preloaded with crazy.
meara - Jul 16, 2008 8:28:42 am PDT #8086 of 10003
Agreed that kidnapping the communion wafer, body of Christ or not (ie, trans or con- substationation believer!) is really very offensive and tacky. Not on, people. But death threats? Dumb.
shrift - Jul 16, 2008 8:40:01 am PDT #8087 of 10003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Spent all morning in Evanston interviewing, came home to find out that Google wants me to come in for an in-person interview!
WOOT.
Gadget_Girl - Jul 16, 2008 8:40:49 am PDT #8088 of 10003
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
The whole thing started with the guy in FL...
Sadly, that begins so many discussions that lead to generally craziness. I need to get out of this state.
SuziQ - Jul 16, 2008 8:48:34 am PDT #8089 of 10003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
WOOOOT shrift!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
juliana - Jul 16, 2008 8:48:41 am PDT #8090 of 10003
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Don't take this the wrong way if it applies to you, but does anyone agree with me that events people are kind of crazy during/around the actual event?
I completely resemble this remark. I try not to let the crazy bleed through to the attendees, but my coworkers often get the brunt of it. (To be fair, if they would stop trying to squeeze people in at the last minute, I would be less crazy.)
JZ - Jul 16, 2008 8:49:58 am PDT #8091 of 10003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I really want to be offended and pissed off at PZ Myers for his total obnoxiousness on the whole stupid matter, but Bill Donohue has rendered that completely impossible. Death threats trump obnoxiousness, by many many orders of magnitude (and, really, death threats followed by projecting your own death threats back on yourself and poor-me-I'm-the-real-victim-here-ing? Tacky and unpleasant to the power of infinity).
Thanks to Bill Donohue's insane fuckwaddery, I now have "write an email to the head of Myers' department enthusiastically supporting his right to be obnoxious and offensive" on my to-do list for the week.
meara - Jul 16, 2008 8:53:24 am PDT #8092 of 10003
Spent all morning in Evanston interviewing, came home to find out that Google wants me to come in for an in-person interview!
Go shrift go!!!!
Thanks to Bill Donohue's insane fuckwaddery, I now have "write an email to the head of Myers' department enthusiastically supporting his right to be obnoxious and offensive" on my to-do list for the week
"Even as a lapsed and mostly unbelieving Catholic, I think you're a total jackass. Sadly, I think Bill Donahue is a bigger one. Damn."
That would be my letter. Sigh.
Allyson - Jul 16, 2008 8:53:38 am PDT #8093 of 10003
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
Well, he also asked people to send him some some communion wafers so he could desecrate them, so I don't think it was just mentioning snackfoods that upset people.
No, PZ (whom I adore) was rude and obnoxious.