Xander: Look who's got a bad case of Dark Prince envy. Dracula: Leave us. Xander: No, we're not going to "Leabbb you." And where'd you get that accent, Sesame Street? "One, Two, Three - three victims! Maw ha ha!"
'Lessons'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
Kathy A - Mar 13, 2009 10:32:51 am PDT #10667 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Connie Neil - Mar 13, 2009 10:37:29 am PDT #10668 of 30000
brillig
Roomba horny toad wool cosy
My god, that would freak out someone who wasn't expecting it.
lisah - Mar 13, 2009 10:40:22 am PDT #10669 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
I have Zappos'd: [link]
Those are really nice, Nora! It seems like you'd get a lot of use out of them (enabler). Actually my co-worker was wearing a manly version of those today. I just noticed at the meeting we were in and was admiring them.
Lee - Mar 13, 2009 10:42:52 am PDT #10670 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Thanks! I'd like that.
Will do
Nora Deirdre - Mar 13, 2009 10:59:02 am PDT #10671 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Thank you for the enabling, Lisa!
Nora Deirdre - Mar 13, 2009 11:21:44 am PDT #10672 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
tommyrot - Mar 13, 2009 11:25:36 am PDT #10673 of 30000
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'm so tired of people being so stupid.
Ugh.
ION, this day is never going to end, is it? It's like the lady who every hour walks half the remaining distance home - she never gets there....
Toddson - Mar 13, 2009 11:26:36 am PDT #10674 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
There was a brief item in the paper a few weeks ago about domestic violence. It was written by a woman who was working with women who'd been abused and they started a program of reading the Bible together. Now, a number of these women had been told - by the men abusing them, by their priest/pastor/minister, by their parents - that the Bible supported the abuse, that they were supposed to be subordinant to the men in their lives and that the men were justified. After actually reading the Bible they were discovering that there were other messages - being partners, respecting and loving each other and such. Seemingly it was a source of strength for the women.
These kids ... sigh ....
Daisy Jane - Mar 13, 2009 11:28:00 am PDT #10675 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I have to say this here so that I do not say it to my friend's business partner.
Camille Paglia may not be conservative by any means, but she is by all means, as Molly Ivins once said, an asshole.
Hil R. - Mar 13, 2009 11:33:51 am PDT #10676 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
From Nora's link:
The results of the survey, conducted by the Boston Public Health Commission across the city and equally among boys and girls, are startling for local health workers who see a generation of youths who seem to have grown accustomed, even insensitive, to domestic violence.
That "generation of youths" phrasing reads oddly to me. Are today's youth more accustomed to domestic violence than previous generations? There's probably no good way to measure it, but from what I've read and seen, it seems like domestic violence used to be treated much more casually than it is now. Like, I can't imagine "To the moon, Alice!" being played for laughs on a sitcom now, and I was just reading that in the late 1800s, the slang "Irish beauty" meant a woman with two black eyes -- aside from the slur on the Irish, it seems like a really casual attitude toward domestic violence. There's certainly a long way to go, but framing this as a "youth" problem seems problematic.