One in ten Americans still think that Obama is a Muslim. [link]
Inara: So. Would you like to lecture me on the wickedness of my ways? Book: I brought you some supper, but if you'd prefer a lecture, I've a few very catchy ones prepped. Sin and hellfire... one has lepers.
'Serenity'
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.
Hil R. - Apr 04, 2009 9:10:51 am PDT #13875 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Shir - Apr 04, 2009 10:05:14 am PDT #13876 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Okay, I think I'm sleepy now. Gonna go see how that works out.
Sleep~ma, ita. I think you must be on our time zone, for sleep.
Liese S. - Apr 04, 2009 10:10:08 am PDT #13877 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Mmm, cassoulet!
I have two ducks in the freezer right now! I could get 4 cups of duck fat pretty easily.
But I think I'm doing the goose instead for easter. I know I'm crazy to attempt it again, but it was sooo gooood, if the most labor intensive thing I've ever made.
Calli - Apr 04, 2009 10:43:51 am PDT #13878 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Anyone ever read that one Douglas Adams book where a character ends up getting movers to take his refrigerator away, rather than clean it?
Only the fact that I'm renting, and don't actually own my 'fridge, is preventing me from trying this.
§ ita § - Apr 04, 2009 10:45:20 am PDT #13879 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I got a few hours. I've swapped the headache that stopped me sleeping for a headache from not sleeping. Ah, well. Knew it was coming.
A new way to be digitally nosy, if where you live is big enough. I'm going to poke through public records to see what all they really have up there. The feeds of real estate listings and Yelp reviews give an interesting cross section of my nabe.
aurelia - Apr 04, 2009 11:59:57 am PDT #13880 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
A new way to be digitally nosy
Cool.
beth b - Apr 04, 2009 12:12:27 pm PDT #13881 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
fish smell -- small amount of vinager near the stove -- absorbs fish smell
My sister hates the smell of fish-- but like DH's fish chowder -- took the smell out of the house as it was cooking
§ ita § - Apr 04, 2009 12:54:55 pm PDT #13882 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Vinegar. Interesting.
That everyblock site lead me to look up the LA County Public Health restaurant rating for a C-rated restaurant near me, hoping it would say why it got a C. Cockroaches! Unsanitised food prep surfaces! Improper food storage temperatures! Honestly, from reading the violation pages, I'm not sure why it's still open.
Sadly to say I've eaten there, while it had the C rating. I just didn't realise the rating until afterwards. Sure, I'm still alive and all, but I'm mighty skeeved lo these months later.
Food was pretty good.
Kathy A - Apr 04, 2009 1:36:17 pm PDT #13883 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Just got back from my first swim in 18 months! I made a huuuuge mistake--when I had done about 20 laps, I took another break and then debated whether I should just stop there or continue. Since I wasn't all that tired, I decided to push through to the 33rd lap and get the full mile in. Then I had to get out of the pool. Oh.My.God, I felt like lead. I could barely make it to the locker room and debated again if I should shower there or wait until I got home. I finally got the energy to shower there, but it took me forever to get dried and dressed afterwards.
Jesse - Apr 04, 2009 1:54:25 pm PDT #13884 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I want to eat nachos. I'm not even hungry! But yet, I have a taste in my mouth for nachos. Hmmm.