It's totally yum. At some point, ita, you should come over and have sweet potato risotto at our house!
Spike: At least give me Wesley's office since he's gone. Angel: He's not gone. He's on a leave of absence. Spike: Yeah, right. Boo-hoo. Thought he killed his bloody father. Try staking your mother when she's coming on to you! Harmony: Well…that explains a lot.
'Destiny'
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.
Kat - Mar 01, 2009 5:29:20 pm PST #8825 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
msbelle - Mar 01, 2009 5:40:01 pm PST #8826 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
shower done. I forgot the hilarity part of the evening. At some point in my use of skills learned via supernanny, he actually is minding me and staying in his room (the only other option is a bath and he refuses that) prior to bedtime. He brings me a note at one point - it reads. (spelling corrected) "You are really mean - and that means war". I think I might frame it.
§ ita § - Mar 01, 2009 5:42:06 pm PST #8827 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That sounds great, Kat.
I'm perplexed by Bumpits. In too many cases it's creating a weird extended forehead slope. Like they'd been doing forehead binding. And the TV ad is even worse. Big hair is back?
§ ita § - Mar 01, 2009 5:42:43 pm PST #8828 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
"You are really mean - and that means war"
NATLBSB.
sarameg - Mar 01, 2009 5:45:11 pm PST #8829 of 30000
It definitely needs to be saved!
Kat - Mar 01, 2009 5:45:48 pm PST #8830 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Sue - Mar 01, 2009 5:48:04 pm PST #8831 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Oh msbelle. At least you can see the humor in it.
I cleaned up a good portion of the floor where the oil spilled tonight and made an apple pie. I should have really made something for lunches this week, but a pie was more fun.
msbelle - Mar 01, 2009 5:54:01 pm PST #8832 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Now that I have fully calmed and reflected, I should note that the hitting and kicking did not hurt, which is really telling. It was measured and he was never out of control. Mad, but not ballistic. The note is also really telling, it is communicating the anger in another medium - HUGE! and shows him controlled enough to write out things, not just hard scribble on paper or rip it to shreds (both are things we try getting him to do instead of hitting).
I am more bothered by the lying about and hiding of homework. Not more upset by, but more bothered by.
Everything in our dynamic has a short term thing and a long term thing.
DavidS - Mar 01, 2009 6:11:29 pm PST #8833 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
A Slashfood link just for Hec.
Noted with comment!
Best sandwich I had last week: Texas Brisket at Memphis Minnie's in the Lower Haight. Damn skippy, that guy knows meat. (He slow cooks his brisket for 18 hours.)
Frank! I did see that Honey West was out on DVD. I have about five eps on tape, and they're very swanky fun. I have some Johnny Staccato on tape too. Come on out to SF and we'll have a viewing party.
Emmett and I are just back from driving down to LA, doing my Tom Waits tour, and driving back. It was fun but now I'm wiped after driving 800+ miles in a weekend.
Kathy A - Mar 01, 2009 6:19:53 pm PST #8834 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The Sunday Tribune had some readers' suggestions for mascots if Chicago gets the 2016 Olympics. I liked these:
"Gimme"--an alderman holding fistfuls of cash
"Grafty the Pig"
"Kickback the Fat Cat"
"Casper the Friendly Ghost Payroller"
A flaming cow
"Lockup"--a Chicago politician in prison jumpsuit
"Car" (a deep-dish pizza), "Diac" (a Chicago-style hot dog), and "Arrest" (an Italian Beef sandwich)
A giant greased palm
"Pidgie"--a giant bird wearing a sash bearing the city's unofficial motto, "Ubi Est Mea?" or "Where's Mine?"
Many readers were enthusiastic about "Chalkie", an outline of the body of a murder victim holding the Olympic torch. That idea first appeared at the ChicagoCityCop blog and now has its own website, where enthusiasts can order souvenir hats and T-shirts.