Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.

'Shells'


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.


WindSparrow - Mar 19, 2009 2:43:28 am PDT #4042 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Mrs. McTwitter the babysitter/ I think she's a little bit crazy/ She thinks the babysitter's supposed/ to sit upon the baby.

Green means go/ Red means stop/ But what do you do/ when the light turns blue/ With orange and lavender spots?

Rockabye baby on the tree top/ Don't you know a treetop/ Is no safe place to rock/ Baby, I think somebody down here's got it in for you.

Did somebody say, "Shel Silverstein"? Those were from memory, it's been ten years since I laid eyes on my copy so don't quote me on 'em.


Toddson - Mar 19, 2009 4:16:10 am PDT #4043 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

oh, as unusual, dear


vw bug - Mar 19, 2009 4:22:42 am PDT #4044 of 30000
Mostly lurking...

So, I thought I'd drop in and report that blowing up Peeps at work yesterday was a HUGE success. We used the Peeps to make s'mores. It was excellent. All of the other teachers who passed through thought it was the most creative thing ever. And the art teacher said, "This isn't food! It's art!"

To which one of my preschoolers asked, "But we can still eat it, right?"

I took that as a high compliment, though.


Cashmere - Mar 19, 2009 4:24:40 am PDT #4045 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.

vw, that's awesome!

Toddson, that so could be one of my kids. There but for the grace of whatever....


Toddson - Mar 19, 2009 4:36:16 am PDT #4046 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Yeah, it sounded like some of the things people have reported on here.

And vw, glad you and the kids had fun! and yummies!


Aims - Mar 19, 2009 4:53:30 am PDT #4047 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I can had endocrinologist! Not until April 6th, but there you go.


Emily - Mar 19, 2009 5:09:05 am PDT #4048 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

I just got to hear "He's not my president, I didn't vote for him" for the first time since the election. Can't describe how irritated I was -- goddammit, I'm not sure George Bush was even elected the first time, and I still had to have him for a president for eight years, you're damn well GONNA acknowledge Obama as president!


vw bug - Mar 19, 2009 5:10:39 am PDT #4049 of 30000
Mostly lurking...

Good news, Aimee!

Oh, ugh, Emily. That is just...ugh.


Fay - Mar 19, 2009 5:23:14 am PDT #4050 of 30000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

The Peeps experiment sounds awesome, vw.

Shel Silverstein. Eh. I first encountered his work a couple of years ago via The Giving Tree, which is afaic a short version of Hil's Elsie book, only with less in the way of incesty bondage squick.

But I love Pirate Captain Jim.

PIRATE CAPTAIN JIM

"Walk the plank!" says Captain Jim.
"But Captain Jim, I cannot swim!"
"Then you must steer us through the gale!"
"But Captain Jim, I cannot sail!"
"Then Down with the galley slaves you go!"
"But Captain Jim, I cannot row!"
"Then you must be a pirate clerk!"
"But Captain Jim, I cannot work!"
"Then a Pirate Captain you must be."
"Thank you, Jim!" says Captain Me.


JZ - Mar 19, 2009 5:26:09 am PDT #4051 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I'm pretty certain I used "He's not my president" numerous times throughout Bush's term, but at least I did my level best only to say it in front of people who I felt pretty certain agreed with me, and if I thought otherwise I tried to keep my mouth shut. It's an understandable sentiment, but it's just kind of tacky to express it in front of people who you know disagree passionately.

Not to mention, if you're a student saying this to a teacher who disagrees? Both tacky and deeply, deeply stupid.

That's a great-awful article, Toddson, though the comments fill me with terror. Seriously, some people think the authorities should "investigate" that family because the house in the picture is too messy? I tremble to think how they'd judge the rest of us; I know for damn sure that if the house in that picture is too messy for children, our apartment is downright abusive.