Weekly update: I now have a big honking satellite dish in my back yard, aimed at China. We can receive about 35 TV channels and over 100 radio stations. This marks the culmination of a saga lasting months, and was installed just in time (quite literally, as in the same morning) for Wallybee's parents to watch the PRC's 60th anniversary celebrations. Wallybee's parents, it should be noted, are quite awesome. This should be a great help in them feeling more at home here.
Inara: We thought we lost you. Mal: Well, I've been right here.
'Out Of Gas'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
billytea - Oct 03, 2009 7:00:37 am PDT #25242 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 03, 2009 7:06:36 am PDT #25243 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Yeah, there's never a consensus on whether In The Night Garden is freakishly, terrifyingly disturbing, or the best thing ever. (Obviously anyone who can recognise PURE EVIL understands that it's the former.)
billytea ~ TV from China! Cool.
billytea - Oct 03, 2009 7:12:31 am PDT #25244 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Yeah, there's never a consensus on whether In The Night Garden is freakishly, terrifyingly disturbing, or the best thing ever. (Obviously anyone who can recognise PURE EVIL understands that it's the former.)
In my family we recognise that the two are not incompatible, and indeed may well be strongly correlated.
billytea ~ TV from China! Cool.
It really is. We can get kids' channels too, which may be of interest to Ryan in a few years' time. (Assuming he has a break in his schedule of watching In The Night Garden with his eyelids propped open.)
Kathy A - Oct 03, 2009 7:33:04 am PDT #25245 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
If you want to watch Rachel Maddow's reaction to the "Shagged by a rare parrot" video, check it out. At the end of it, she's laughing so hard she can barely speak.
omnis_audis - Oct 03, 2009 8:20:03 am PDT #25246 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
I watched SGU last night. It has potenial. But there were a few times I was thinking "Voyager without the Prime Directive".
I'm at the dealership. I haven't had service on the prius since leaving CA. But I had synthetic oil put in, and including the drive across, have only driven 11,000 mikes in 15 months. But I think I have a coolant leak, as my windshield "fogs" up easily. Ugg. Guess I'm not getting a new airport.
beth b - Oct 03, 2009 11:04:40 am PDT #25247 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
youtube just came back up -- that was scary seska. It got wose the longer it went on
Zenkitty - Oct 03, 2009 11:25:11 am PDT #25248 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
"In the Night Garden" is a scary title, even. I'm going to write a horror novel around that title. Why would a childrens' show be named anything with "Night" in the title unless it was supposed to be scary? Good thing I never had kids. I obviously don't have the right kind of brain.
Whenever I'm sad, I'm gonna play that video of Rachel Maddow laughing helplessly at a parrot gittin' his freak on.
omnis_audis - Oct 03, 2009 11:39:11 am PDT #25249 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Woot, no coolant problems. Saved me a couple hundred bucks I don't have.
Jessica - Oct 03, 2009 11:41:45 am PDT #25250 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I told Dylan he could watch a movie or TV this afternoon since it's cold and rainy, and he requested Finding Nemo (or as he calls it "the movie about fish with Nemo and Nemo's daddy")
My work as a parent? Done.
(Yes, we skip the opening scene. It makes Mommy cry.)
Atropa - Oct 03, 2009 12:21:03 pm PDT #25251 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
You want scary kids' TV? In The Night Garden.
Huh. I must have a different definition of scary, because I found that mildly charming, but not very interesting.