Dawn: Are you kidding? Dr. Keiser: I never kid about my amazing surgical skills.

'Bring On The Night'


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.


bon bon - May 19, 2009 2:50:40 pm PDT #20254 of 30000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Hey, ita, do you have any interest in the UFC match on Saturday?


§ ita § - May 19, 2009 3:02:22 pm PDT #20255 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

do you have any interest in the UFC match on Saturday?

Just my default interest in seeing grown men bash each other's heads in. Which is to say, perhaps more than the societal norm. You PPVing it?

BitmeTV.org! I remembered! I'm not total mental swiss cheese.


bon bon - May 19, 2009 3:15:01 pm PDT #20256 of 30000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Either an acquaintance of mine is or maybe we can get together and watch it somewhere -- I have some interest in seeing Machida and Bob is out of town.


askye - May 19, 2009 3:17:52 pm PDT #20257 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

I skipped ahead to say that I don't take anything Jenny McCarthy says seriously about her kid because she original thought her son was a "Chrystal" child and she was an Indigo.

Hmmm...evidentally Obama is an Indigo and also Indigos are behind all types of social networking...http://www.allaboutindigos.com/so_whats_the_truth


Calli - May 19, 2009 3:20:33 pm PDT #20258 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

evidentally Obama is an Indigo and also Indigos are behind all types of social networking

So that's why George Will has that bug up his butt about blue jeans.


tommyrot - May 19, 2009 3:20:36 pm PDT #20259 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.

Important clarification:

Question: Who are the crystal children?

"There is not a new group of children that I see with a crystal life color. I believe that, in time, another color will emerge. That may take a hundred or more years. I have said for years: the Indigos are the bridge to the future. The next color will be the future. Right now I can only suspect what that color might be.

I think I'll sleep better tonight knowing this....


tommyrot - May 19, 2009 3:25:46 pm PDT #20260 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.

Are Spiritual Encounters All In Your Head? Some of them, it seems.

According to polls, there's a 50-50 chance you have had at least one spiritual experience — an overpowering feeling that you've touched God, or another dimension of reality.

50%? Wow. Not me, though.

About a decade ago, Schimmel had a benign tumor removed from his left temporal lobe. The surgery was a snap. But soon after that — unknown to him — he began to suffer mini-seizures. He'd hear conversations in his head. Sometimes the people around him would look slightly unreal, as if they were animated.

Then came the visions. He remembers twice, lying in bed, he looked up at the ceiling and saw a swirl of blue and gold and green colors that gradually settled into a shape. He couldn't figure out what it was.

"And then, like a flash, it dawned on me: 'This is the Virgin Mary!' " he says. "And you know, it's funny. I laughed about it, because why would the Virgin Mary appear to me, a Jewish guy, lying in bed looking at the ceiling? She could do much better."

Schimmel became fascinated with spirituality. He became more compassionate, less ambitious. And he wondered: Could his new outlook have to do with his brain? The next visit to his neurologist, he asked to see his most recent MRI.

"My left temporal lobe looked completely different from the way it did before the surgery," he says.

Gradually, it had become smaller, a different shape, covered with scar tissue. Those changes had sparked electrical firings in his brain. Schimmel's doctor told him he had developed temporal lobe epilepsy — a disease that has fascinated doctors for centuries.


§ ita § - May 19, 2009 3:27:34 pm PDT #20261 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think I'll sleep better tonight knowing this....

How can you know? I mean, I read it, but I can't absorb anything.

maybe we can get together and watch it somewhere

If I'm feeling healthy I'd like this.


tommyrot - May 19, 2009 3:33:01 pm PDT #20262 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.

How can you know?

She sounds reasonable.

ION, Spider-cat: Daredevil Charlie ignores cat-flap and climbs two-storey wall to get home


shrift - May 19, 2009 3:55:10 pm PDT #20263 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Apparently when I'm rested, trying to eat healthy, and taking my vitamins, cashiers feel the need to card me for products that you need to be 18 to buy. I guess I am all right with that.