I've been out of the abbey two days, I've beaten a lawman senseless, I've fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect. And I'm not even sure if I think he was wrong.

Book ,'Serenity'


Natter 64: Yes, we still need you  

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.


sarameg - Sep 11, 2009 7:12:52 pm PDT #8279 of 30001

Hee. Yeah, out in NM, I'm used to the wildlife. Elk, deer, coyotes, roadrunners, bear, mountain lions, yeah, ok, hiyas. Here in B'more? I almost drove off the road when I saw a black bear in Owings Mills.

Also, I'm all YAY URBAN FOX! We're encroaching on them, only fair they figure out how to come back.


Liese S. - Sep 11, 2009 7:17:49 pm PDT #8280 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Oh yeah, I saw a roadrunner yesterday too. Hee.

I'm totally yay about your fox! Foxes are so small when you see them in real life. And fast!


bon bon - Sep 11, 2009 7:22:29 pm PDT #8281 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I swear I've never heard it before. My apartment building seems to have its own twitter equivalent--loud parents talking in the courtyard. Which for the first time I appreciated. Because West LA just shook like a motherfucker.

It just has to be usually not so loud, right?

Yesterday I saw a coyote and a pair of elk. Not at the same time.

I think it's funny that people are freaked out here by coyotes -- when a rap on the window will scare them off by half a mile at my parents' house.


sarameg - Sep 11, 2009 7:23:07 pm PDT #8282 of 30001

He or she was smaller than Loki! And it wasn't darting, just sauntering as if it owned the sidewalk.

My parents have a roadrunner who comes and suns itself on the iron table in front of their dining room windows. Likes the ventilation, I guess. And likes to drive their 3 cats absolutely MAD. They'll all be at the window, crazed and chittering, and it is out there, wings spread and relaxed.


Burrell - Sep 11, 2009 7:25:44 pm PDT #8283 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Oh aurelia, so sorry.

OK. Little boy followed up trollish behavior with many hugs and snuggles and is now sleeping like an angel. Sigh. Impossible, and impossible not to love him.


§ ita § - Sep 11, 2009 7:51:01 pm PDT #8284 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It just has to be usually not so loud, right?

I've never noticed anything when other people closer to the source have talked about the noise--I figured it was more on the level of truck noise--easy to mistake for something else. But this was not like traffic or anything else easy to pass off.


quester - Sep 11, 2009 8:43:47 pm PDT #8285 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

aurelia, mucho sympathy! That totally sucks!


Lee - Sep 11, 2009 8:46:50 pm PDT #8286 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I think my NyQuil was defective.


Burrell - Sep 11, 2009 8:52:15 pm PDT #8287 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I've never noticed anything when other people closer to the source have talked about the noise--I figured it was more on the level of truck noise--easy to mistake for something else. But this was not like traffic or anything else easy to pass off.

Both times I've heard it, it sounded like a large boulders falling onto the roof, one after another. Cody recognized it at once.


SuziQ - Sep 11, 2009 9:03:32 pm PDT #8288 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

I think my NyQuil was defective.

I wish I had some NyQuil. I can't sleep and my head is full of snot. Blech.