Hey, I've been in a firefight before! Well, I was in a fire. Actually, I was fired from a fry-cook opportunity. I can handle myself.

Wash ,'War Stories'


Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds  

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.


Theodosia - Sep 14, 2008 3:10:04 am PDT #8623 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

DAMN, if the rest of SNL was as good as that opening skit, I'd start watching again. That was note-perfect, and worked on so many levels.

I hope Hillary watches it and laughs until she cries.


Jesse - Sep 14, 2008 4:17:28 am PDT #8624 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

if the rest of SNL was as good as that opening skit,

Yeah, not so much.


Jessica - Sep 14, 2008 4:33:48 am PDT #8625 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

she said "I love you," she ate and loved broccoli tonight, and now she's dancing around the living room to Joan Jett. She posits that a toddler could not be any better even if she were dipped in platinum.

I agree with JZ!

Dylan is many months away from sentences, but has been adding words to his vocabulary at a pretty alarming rate. He doesn't use all of them consistantly or meaningfully yet, but his repetition skills are MAD, yo. (Except for the letter R, which he can't do at all. So his Auntie 'Rina is "Mina!" and the Roomba is "Moomba!" When you're 15 months old, everything has exclamation points!)


Jessica - Sep 14, 2008 4:39:24 am PDT #8626 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

And in political news, a college friend of mine has as his current Facebook status:

has astronaut experience because he can see the moon from his house?

LOVE.


Shir - Sep 14, 2008 4:40:12 am PDT #8627 of 10003
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Except for the letter R, which he can't do at all.

He and the rest of the Israelis. We really don't pronounce R's, at least not the way others pronounce it, but there's a way to pronounce it with the tongue, mostly in singing.

Foreigners and people that (who?) doesn't know Israeli names usually needs me to spell my name to get it right, or else it sounds like "she".

When you're 15 months old, everything has exclamation points!

Very exciting!


Sheryl - Sep 14, 2008 4:47:59 am PDT #8628 of 10003
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Supposed to be hot today. Oh, joy.


Gadget_Girl - Sep 14, 2008 5:07:28 am PDT #8629 of 10003
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".

But it's odd and cute the way she says it. Like she's pronouncing it phonetically, and Latvian is her first tongue.

Matilda has killed me ded with cuteness.


Hil R. - Sep 14, 2008 5:10:58 am PDT #8630 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

He and the rest of the Israelis. We really don't pronounce R's, at least not the way others pronounce it, but there's a way to pronounce it with the tongue, mostly in singing.

When I was learning Hebrew as a kid, they told us that the letter "resh" is pronounced like we pronounce R. It totally confused me on my first trip to Israel when I realized that that's totally not how Israelis pronounce it. (I'd heard people with Israeli accents before, but it hadn't really registered until I was surrounded by them.) I mentioned this to Nilly on the phone, and she tried to teach me how to pronounce "resh," which mostly ended up with me sounding like I was about to swallow my tongue.


Jesse - Sep 14, 2008 5:13:24 am PDT #8631 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OK, laundry is in. That's something.


Shir - Sep 14, 2008 5:25:02 am PDT #8632 of 10003
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

she tried to teach me how to pronounce "resh," which mostly ended up with me sounding like I was about to swallow my tongue

I think it just takes practice, and the best practice is to sing along to songs with a lot of "resh" in them, sung by "old fashioned" Israeli artists ("old fashioned" as in "they're pronouncing it right"). I'd start with Chava Alberstein.

Link, link, and another one.