Not a huge chance = still, a chance. Like the book club.
(Hey, I slept, I get to be optimistic).
Giles: I'm sure we're all perfectly safe. Dawn: We're safe. Right. And Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with. Tara: It sounded convincing when I thought it.
'Dirty Girls'
Spike's Bitches 43: Who am I kidding? I love to brag.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Shir - Dec 16, 2008 7:48:27 pm PST #4762 of 10000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Burrell - Dec 16, 2008 7:54:29 pm PST #4763 of 10000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
so sorry, juliana. Peace to you and your family.
beth b - Dec 16, 2008 7:58:34 pm PST #4764 of 10000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
peace, juliana.
omnis_audis - Dec 16, 2008 8:15:39 pm PST #4765 of 10000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Um Book club netted no dates so far.
(strangely pessimistic)
Shir - Dec 16, 2008 8:19:23 pm PST #4766 of 10000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Go to bed. It might help you with the optimism.
Fay - Dec 16, 2008 8:27:28 pm PST #4767 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Juliana, I'm so sorry for your loss.
So, it's 6.23am and I've been up since 5am or so, but I think that's pretty good going, on the whole - yesterday I spent I don't know how long, 14 hours or something, flying from Bangkok to Abu Dhabi, and then from there to Manchester. I can haz family and home! And central heating! A world where A/C does not exist - I'm wearing two pairs of socks and a fake fur coat as I type. Which is probably overkill. (Oh, and other things also, I hasten to add, PJ type things.) Still - England: it's not the Tropics.
On the flight I watched various movies. I was particularly amused by the realisation that, whilst I was avidly watching Master and Commander for the first time, the huge strapping fella next to me in the muscle shirt was watching.... Mamma Mia. And tapping his feet. Take that, stereotyping! I also watched the X Files movie, which was bafflingly rubbish and pointless (but scored a couple of points for nostalgia value, I suppose, especially when Skinner turned up. And frankly, I'd pretty much watch Gillian Anderson read the phone book. And I do love Billy Connolly, and always will*, even though his US acting career continues to be a bit of a puzzlement.) And then I watched The Mummy Strikes Back: This Time With Jet Li, or whatever it was called, and enjoyed the hell out of it. Also an episode of Bones I hadn't happened across.
I do like that whole movie-watching element of modern airflight. Although I wish the screen wasn't three inches from my nose. Ah, business class, if only I could afford you...
*Billy Connolly was Eddie Izzard, or possibly Robin Williams, only a generation earlier. Only with this whole barely-leashed wild and hairy Scotsman thing going on, rather than impeccable makeup and Euro-friendly Englishness. If you haven't happened across any of the classic standup stuff, it is WELL worth seeking out. Funny, funny, funny man.
Hil R. - Dec 16, 2008 9:06:02 pm PST #4768 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Home for the holidays sounds nice, Fay.
Interesting article in the Times. Not exactly a "feel-good" article, but maybe a "at least something good came out of it" article? The mother of one of the people killed on Pan Am Flight 103 left her estate to the schools he went to: Harvard, Choate, and a middle school in NYC that serves "academically talented, economically disadvantaged boys and girls." The last of the settlement money just came in, and it's a total of over $2,000,000 to the school -- practically their entire endowment. [link]
omnis_audis - Dec 16, 2008 9:12:07 pm PST #4769 of 10000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Shir, first I order you to bed. Then you order me to bed. Ya know, this is how rumors get started.
Shir - Dec 16, 2008 9:34:59 pm PST #4770 of 10000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I find nothing wrong with rumors beds.
WindSparrow - Dec 17, 2008 12:21:30 am PST #4771 of 10000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Heh heh heh.
The Shir and omnis audis Show is so much fun to watch.