I was really craving something cheesy and gooey tonight. I stopped by the soup place near my apartment, and they were serving Southwest Cheddar Chicken. Score! I can almost pretend it's good for me, too!
I don't really have a security blanket... unless you count Mr. Pointy.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
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.
Tom Scola - Dec 10, 2008 12:35:54 pm PST #5317 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Connie Neil - Dec 10, 2008 12:38:50 pm PST #5318 of 10002
brillig
I've been browsing around that Rapture Ready site, and for once my brain feels icky. I can accept the people saying "No one knows when the hour will come!" and all that, but telling people it's time to stop worrying about putting money into your retirement fund and kids' college accounts, and saying Obama may not be the Antichrist but he's probably a major signpost--and pretending to have proof . . .
Then there was the section on "What to do if you weren't one of the people pulled up by the Rapture" . . . because of course the web will still be around . . . unless I'm supposed to print it out just in case . . .
Damn that strict Methodist upbringing that has left the tiny, tiny voice in the depths of my brain that says, "Maybe?" I wonder if people from strict religious upbringings can ever fully purge that voice that sounds like a parent you loved.
tommyrot - Dec 10, 2008 12:39:19 pm PST #5319 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
At first I thought all I saw was a turkey's wishbone, cementing the fact that I had a seat on the bullet train to hell reserved alongside tommy, but then I looked again.
I see two men floating in the air and kissing, while a burning cake hovers above them. Behind the cake is a bloody ax.
tommyrot - Dec 10, 2008 12:41:26 pm PST #5320 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Barb - Dec 10, 2008 12:42:26 pm PST #5321 of 10002
“Not dead yet!”
I see two men floating in the air and kissing, while a burning cake hovers above them. Behind the cake is a bloody ax.
That's disturbing as hell.
I'm impressed.
Connie Neil - Dec 10, 2008 12:44:11 pm PST #5322 of 10002
brillig
tommyrot sees gay vikings with cake.
Toddson - Dec 10, 2008 1:01:04 pm PST #5323 of 10002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
or possibly gay lumberjacks
DavidS - Dec 10, 2008 1:02:38 pm PST #5324 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
tommyrot sees gay vikings with cake.
He used to live in San Francisco where that wouldn't be an uncommon sight.
billytea - Dec 10, 2008 1:22:39 pm PST #5325 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Re maternity leave, my company offers eight weeks' paid parental leave for the primary caregiver. (Mothers are required to take at least six weeks after giving birth.) I will get one week's paid leave; were I to be the primary care-giver, I could take eight weeks. (I can also take - I think this applies to both parents - up to 52 weeks off total, though most of that would be unpaid.)
sarameg - Dec 10, 2008 1:22:54 pm PST #5326 of 10002
Man, I was rage girl today. I knew it was getting bad when I really had to refrain from muttering aloud fuck you and you and you when the damned ad on the Baltimore Sun website kept expanding whenever I tried to follow a link. I hate those ads normally, but not usually to the point I'm wishing the server would implode.