Doesn't matter that we took him off that boat, Shepherd, it's the place he's going to live from now on.

Mal ,'Bushwhacked'


Natter 62: The 62nd Natter  

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.


Jesse - Nov 23, 2008 5:14:53 am PST #2948 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Like "Slayer of Coast Mayor is Free After Six Years" or "US Will Not Prosecute in 1978 Killings On Coast." I wonder when that usage stopped.

I hadn't thought about it, but isn't the old joke, "I just flew in from the coast, and boy are my arms tired"?


Sue - Nov 23, 2008 5:31:03 am PST #2949 of 10002
hip deep in pie

Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne used to write a column for Esquire called The Coast, about California. And I'm pretty sure that Didion has a line in one of her essays about how California is called the Coast.


msbelle - Nov 23, 2008 6:31:38 am PST #2950 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

yikes sara. be safe.

mac is off with his uncle and I am packing up things to mail out. Baby shower at 1, so I have about half an hour to finish and get ready.


Jesse - Nov 23, 2008 8:24:32 am PST #2951 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Hey, msbelle, did it turn out to be nothing, or do we not know that yet?


sarameg - Nov 23, 2008 8:48:30 am PST #2952 of 10002

OK, I can't find my ipod. Lord only knows where I put it.


sarameg - Nov 23, 2008 9:02:31 am PST #2953 of 10002

This is crazymaking. I brought it back from the trip, but...it's nowhere. Ahrg. I don't think there is any possibility it was stolen, I just expect I put it somwhere really random.


Allyson - Nov 23, 2008 9:02:33 am PST #2954 of 10002
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

Is it way too early to decorate for holidays? I want to put the lights up!


Nora Deirdre - Nov 23, 2008 9:03:43 am PST #2955 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Soon- after Thanksgiving!


aurelia - Nov 23, 2008 9:08:03 am PST #2956 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

If you want to put them up, go for it.

I have a tendency to leave holiday decorations up for a very long time. When it's all cold and dreary outside the last thing I want to do is take away the cheery lights.

I haven't had a tree in a couple of years because of the cats. I should put up some lights without the tree.


DavidS - Nov 23, 2008 9:12:53 am PST #2957 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Is it way too early to decorate for holidays? I want to put the lights up!

First weekend of December.

I also recommend ditching the tree in the interregnum between New Year's Day and whenever you have to go back to work. Otherwise you wind up in a horrible, holiday hangover space.

Also, I personally like to plan something low key but fun for mid-January to help get me out of that month with my sanity intact. Anything that involves positive reward and most of a weekend outside in the sunlight will work.