I'm a vision of hotliness, and how weird is that? Mystical comas. You know, if you can stand the horror of a higher power hijacking your mind and body so that it can give birth to itself, I really recommend 'em.

Cordelia ,'You're Welcome'


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.


tommyrot - Oct 20, 2008 9:51:36 am PDT #5520 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.

The Republicans are clever; they often will do something naughty, and then accuse Democrats of doing it. So Democrats point out what Republicans are doing, then it just sounds partisan.

Through the Looking Glass: Ohio GOP claims Democrats will "Rig The Election"

Blogger Interrupted has captured the audio of a robocall, paid for by the Ohio Republican Party, in which Ohio state representative Kevine DeWine claims that Democrats will steal the election:

Your vote is critical to the combat the Democrats' plan to swell up voter rolls with bogus voters and rig the election.

This is the same Ohio Republican Party that used every effort--legal and illegal--to purge Democrats from voter rolls in 2004. This is the same Ohio Republican Party that cheered when Kenneth Blackwell said he was going to "deliver" Ohio's electoral votes for Bush in 2004. This is the same Ohio Republican Party that is seeking to prevent newly registered voters from voting in this landmark election.


Jesse - Oct 20, 2008 9:51:59 am PDT #5521 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Las Vegas. I got these for fifty bucks. I don't know if it's returns or what, but it was a pretty random selection of mostly summer shoes at this point.


Trudy Booth - Oct 20, 2008 9:53:06 am PDT #5522 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I bet if I lived in the real America, I could have biked to work in 40 minutes this morning...

A REAL American would drive a Hummer or possibly a snowmobile.

Banjo playing during brain surgery

I wonder how you sterilize a banjo

Movies and television shows have never really given me a sense of a place. This may be from growing up with New York being perpetually wrong in everything I saw.

Though when I first went to Scotland I kept singing songs from Brigadoon and in Vienna I kept humming waltzes to myself.

Then there's the R.O.U.S. faction.

Retireees of unusual size? I don't think they exist.


tommyrot - Oct 20, 2008 9:56:16 am PDT #5523 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.

I wonder how you sterilize a banjo

They come pre-sterilized, in little sterile plastic wrappers. Then they have these giant red bins where you put your contaminated banjo in after surgery.


hippocampus - Oct 20, 2008 9:59:41 am PDT #5524 of 10001
not your mom's socks.

diet coke. all over my keyboard.

thanks tommyrot. I needed that.


§ ita § - Oct 20, 2008 10:00:36 am PDT #5525 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I suspect the neighborhood across Woodward from the Fox theatre is less war zone and more parking lot now.

The big apartment store is definitely gone. But luckily some of the old buildings are safely inhabited (the downtown library, for instance, or the Guardian building) and will be there for a while.


lisah - Oct 20, 2008 10:01:08 am PDT #5526 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

The Zappos OUTLET STORE.

I saw that when I was out there this summer but didn't have time to go. Mecca!


Frankenbuddha - Oct 20, 2008 10:01:32 am PDT #5527 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Havana Before Castro

Too much city talk - I read this as Havana Before Cairo, and was hurting my puzzler trying to understand the connection.


Kathy A - Oct 20, 2008 10:03:07 am PDT #5528 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Though when I first went to Scotland I kept singing songs from Brigadoon

Go home
Go home
Go home to Bonnie Jean
Go home
Go home
I'll go home to Bonnie Jean

If I have to suffer from the earworm, everybody has to suffer from the earworm!


aurelia - Oct 20, 2008 10:05:25 am PDT #5529 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

The big apartment store is definitely gone.

Yeah, I was there when they imploded that. I like that library. I usually went there instead of the University library. I need to go back now that I have a decent camera and document the old 'hood.