Book ,'Serenity'
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Discussing "The Last Airbender" in movies:
Raq: I'm...speechless.
I was just talking to my best friend at work about the train wreck that is TLA.
And he said "Yeah, but c'mon. The source material SUCKED!!!"
I need to go lie down.
Jars: Because you tired yourself out beating some sense into him?
Polter-Cow: I think you need to do some nutbending.
Sean K: Never look up medical stuff online.
Jessica: Seriously - the top hits are ALWAYS either worst case scenarios or total whackadoodle bullshit. Dr Google hears hoofbeats and thinks zebras.
Jessica: No no no, everything Hitler ever had even a remote connection with is automatically and permanently linked with EVIL.
Burrell: Not quite everything. Leather coats are still cool. But little mustaches, vegetarianism, and landscape painting are pretty suspect.
Sox puts it so well, in Natter:
Also, today? Does not deserve to be a Tuesday. It is a Monday-ish style Friday the 13th in a failed steampunk-esque cogs-hotgluegunned-onto-gold-lame charade of the end-times and it can just go away now.
Erin has the final word on Belinda, in Natter:
Belinda is the end product of the Anita Blake stable of were-lovers storyline. You guys Just Don't Understand Love.
On my issues with "formal" beach weddings.
ita : There's nothing inherently casual about beaches. It's not their fault people keep showing up mostly naked.
Jesse : I think nature is inherently casual.
Tommyrot : With the exception of penguins.
Tommyrot in Dr. Who discussion: I mean, how many people can't be with the one they love because if they were, two universes would be destroyed?
Shir:How familiar are you with Jewish families, tommyrot?
Hec: Is there some little useful-but-not-necessary-item that you lack, whose very lack bedevils you to the point of sighing wistfully and saying, "Gee, I really wish I had a [item] ?
Zenkitty: Boyfriend.
flea: The NYT has a 3-page obituary of Steinbrenner up already; clearly they knew he was going.
Jessica: For someone that high profile, they've probably had an obit ready for years.
Amy: Some places have "deathwatch books" in various stages of completion, too -- Kensington had a list of people likely to die soonish and every once in a while we'd have to discuss who we should/could preparing a book about.
Good times in the editorial meeting, man. @@
flea: I knew about that, but I wonder how they decide who to include and when? I mean, presumably they don't have an obituary of Bill Clinton written (or do they? he did have that quadruple bypass), but they probably do have Nelson Mandela drafted at least. It took them most of the day yesterday to get Tuli Kupferberg's obit up, although he had a big stroke in April and was pretty clearly dying for a while I gather. (Not that he's as famous as George Steinbrenner, of course.)
Jesse:
I mean, presumably they don't have an obituary of Bill Clinton written
I bet they do. I think it's on prominence, not likelihood of dying.
DebetEsse: There's a formula.
(national prominence x [international prominence/2] x belovedness^2)/number of years the actuaries say the person has left
brenda m: I figure the scar tissue from CC keeps a lot of kids from being hurt by razor blades in halloween candy.