OH WNYC had something on Bats in Brooklyn today: [link]
Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.
'Get It Done'
Natter 61*
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.
msbelle - Oct 09, 2008 6:53:19 am PDT #3599 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Barb - Oct 09, 2008 7:01:02 am PDT #3600 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
He flashed me a terrible look and I wanted to say, "Listen, motherfucker, aren't you supposed to be all non-judgmental!?"
I love this line like temple monkeys love blessed bananas.
Okay, I've downloaded the MS from the email to my desktop. It's a start.
msbelle - Oct 09, 2008 7:06:40 am PDT #3601 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I was so proud of myself for making and packing a lunch today....BUT I forgot the papers I need for my meeting with the lawyer at 5:30, so now I have to trek back home to get them. that means chowing lunch at my desk now.
DavidS - Oct 09, 2008 7:21:23 am PDT #3602 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jesse - Oct 09, 2008 7:27:10 am PDT #3603 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The slide show there is fascinating. I don't understand why they didn't open up James Franco's eyes more, though. Maybe that's a male/female thing -- aren't bigger eyes more "attractive"?
Barb - Oct 09, 2008 7:31:07 am PDT #3604 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
Well, what I noticed Jesse, was that a lot of the people with larger eyes, that was one of the features that was altered, making them smaller.
They did it with Michael Cera's picture and it really reduced one of his more distinguishable features, IMO. It also took the wideness of his mouth and reduced it considerably.
I like the program on heritage.com that takes a photograph and matches it to celebrities. You can also morph pictures.
msbelle - Oct 09, 2008 7:42:35 am PDT #3605 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
the program on heritage.com that takes a photograph and matches it to celebrities.
link? I am looking on heritage.com and not finding anything.
eta - never mind, googled and found it: myheritage.com - can't get there from work.
Typo Boy - Oct 09, 2008 8:00:01 am PDT #3606 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
What could have been a major screwup on my part was turned into a minor one by someone going out of their way. I filed a wrong form with the California tax board. Instead of mailing me, they phoned me to let me know, which gives me time to file the right one. It is pretty routine to mail notifications of this kind of screw-up, so I really give them a lot points for taking the trouble to call instead - especially since I downloaded the wrong form from the internet, so they were correcting my screwup, not theirs.
tommyrot - Oct 09, 2008 8:01:38 am PDT #3607 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Huh. Someone in a gov't bureaucracy going out of their way to help someone... weird.
DavidS - Oct 09, 2008 8:06:44 am PDT #3608 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
JZ was also the recipient of random kindness yesterday.
After collecting Matilda from daycare she did some shopping at Trader Joe's. All was well until she parked the car in our neighborhood and Matilda had a full on meltdown on the sidewalk, leaving JZ somewhat stranded since she couldn't carry a toddler and two bags of groceries across the street to our apartment.
A random skater dude volunteered to carry her groceries home, which offer she gratefully accepted.
In sum: Huzzah to the extra effort bureaucrat! Huzzah to the random skater dude!