Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


juliana - Mar 30, 2009 9:10:14 am PDT #12969 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

First quake in the new house! M & I were sitting in the kitchen, and rrrrrrruuuuuuumbbbbbblllllle. Whee!


Gudanov - Mar 30, 2009 9:10:24 am PDT #12970 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

Hasn't Law & Order and its children used the all the plot points by now?


Shir - Mar 30, 2009 9:14:36 am PDT #12971 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

actual Californian during an actual earthquake

Are there fake Californians with fake earthquakes?


megan walker - Mar 30, 2009 9:17:19 am PDT #12972 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Bayistas--quake?

And, I feel nauseous yet again, although I felt nothing. Hmmph.

The French actress Miou Miou is famously freckled and beautiful.

Psst, that’s Isabelle Hupert.


P.M. Marc - Mar 30, 2009 9:17:42 am PDT #12973 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Ugh, Dana, suckage.

Her mom is listed as being Irish and something else Caucasian

Peggy Lipton's Jewish. Her mother was born in Ireland, but of Eastern European stock.

She's also totally hot. I'm shocked David hasn't come in to give the whole Peggy Lipton hotness speech.

How white is Rashida Jones?

Wentworth Miller.


§ ita § - Mar 30, 2009 9:21:42 am PDT #12974 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

But Wenty doesn't have a father as big in the black world as Rashida does. Nor as black a name, really.

There was a Law & Order that used the same plot point back in the day...

Who was the actor?


Shir - Mar 30, 2009 9:22:55 am PDT #12975 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

freckled and beautiful

Also, Marg Helgenberger.


tommyrot - Mar 30, 2009 9:25:35 am PDT #12976 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.

One person was on the phone with a colleague in Chicago who got all squealy and excited about talking to an actual Californian during an actual earthquake, which we all thought was kind of adorable.

Hey, we had an earthquake here in Chicago not too long ago. Which I was actually awake for. (at 4-something am.)


Jesse - Mar 30, 2009 9:25:44 am PDT #12977 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I do find it interesting that Rashida Jones (sounds black!), daughter of Quincy Jones (is black!) gets "coded" white. Of course, she basically looks like a tan Peggy Lipton, but still. Interesting.

It's like when my godsister made a post on Facebook about "giving new meaning to "light-skinned"" after hanging out with the black side of her family -- she just looks 100% white, even though her father was, in fact, a black man. You just would never know to look at her -- way more so than Wentworth Miller or Vin Deisel.


§ ita § - Mar 30, 2009 9:25:59 am PDT #12978 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Maybe one could print this and affix it to the cars in question, if you don't have a blow torch.