I'm watching last night's Colbert, and it reminds me that I wished I had a camera with me the other day on my way to work, when I saw them taking down the AIG banner outside their offices. It must just have been because of the wind or something, but it was a great image.
Oh! I know this one! 'Slaying entails certain sacrifices, blah blah blahbity blah, I'm so stuffy, gimme a scone.'
Buffy ,'Help'
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.
Jesse - Mar 17, 2009 3:45:30 pm PDT #11197 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sarameg - Mar 17, 2009 4:24:14 pm PDT #11198 of 30000
Boo, neighbor wasn't home. But, two tub and I bought them tonight, that counts as 2, right?
Sheryl - Mar 17, 2009 5:01:37 pm PDT #11199 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
G and I did our traditional St. Patrick's Day thing - went to Madam's Organ to hear a friend play. (For those who don't know, Madam's Organ is a dive bar in Adams Morgan. Decor features taxidermied animals, musical instruments and drawings of naked women.)
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2009 5:14:20 pm PDT #11200 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Burrell - Mar 17, 2009 5:52:05 pm PDT #11201 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I am still in denial, ita.
I don't know this is so much harder to believe than Heath Ledger's death. I think it's the combination of random and unexpectedly awful.
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2009 5:58:59 pm PDT #11202 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I wasn't as fascinated by her career as I was with Heath's, since she's more established and less potential, but the awful and the random are potent.
quester - Mar 17, 2009 6:00:43 pm PDT #11203 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
from way back:
Apparently Savannah has the second-largest St. Patrick's Day celebration (after New York, I guess?)
I wonder how many places claim that.
Kansas City, for one.
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2009 7:15:54 pm PDT #11204 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Between Natasha Richardson and tonight's Mentalist, I never want to leave the safety of my seat again. I could be gravely injured on the way to the loo.
aurelia - Mar 17, 2009 7:17:16 pm PDT #11205 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I think Kansas City claims second-largest St. Pat's parade as opposed to celebration. But yeah, that's kind of why I wonder. I mean, I would guess NY, Boston and Chicago as the top 3 (not necessarily in that order).
javachik - Mar 17, 2009 7:56:29 pm PDT #11206 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
I saw that same article, ita, but it appears that it hasn't been confirmed anywhere else, yet. I hold out hope. For whatever reason, I've always really, really liked her. Coupled with being married to a decent guy and having kids...
Both Richardson and Ledger had (have?), to me, an overwhelming sense of warmth, ya know? I think that's what gets to me.
It has me thinking of the most profound losses (I've personally felt) when it comes to celebrity death. There are shining examples of humanity like Paul Newman, where you miss them so much but you know they had damned fantastic, blessed lives and it's gotta end some time. And then there are the ones that just shake me to the core because their stories weren't done yet, you know? Or their amazing gentle and creative spirits leave a gigantic black hole. I was bummed about Cobain, Phoenix, Belushi and even Micheal Landon. And I cried when John Lennon was shot, but I was only 10 or 11, and remember feeling acutely aware that he wasn't mine to really claim; he was of another generation.
But the ones that left me gasping for breath at the horribleness of it all were Gilda Radner and Jim Henson. I was upset for days and days, and missed work, struck by Radner's death. She had been the most influential celebrity in my life up to that point.
ETA: I just realized I left out Princess Diana. Her death really was horrible. I didn't feel particularly sad the way I did with Gilda, but I remember thinking that Diana was always going to be *present* - that I felt like I was going to be reading about her exploits for another 40 years, as I always had since I was wee. And to realize that *puff*, she was gone, just gone...strange.