Young, genteel raconteurs used to do quite well in olden days being the "extra man" at dinner parties and such.
Wow, you've really mastered the power of positive giving-up.
Cordelia ,'End of Days'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[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.
Connie Neil - Dec 18, 2009 10:08:18 am PST #4235 of 30000
brillig
§ ita § - Dec 18, 2009 10:08:21 am PST #4236 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jilli, it's your iconness. And a Chrismukkwanzah miracle.
Atropa - Dec 18, 2009 10:10:01 am PST #4237 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Jilli, it's your iconness. And a Chrismukkwanzah miracle.
So I should go buy a lottery ticket?
Kathy A - Dec 18, 2009 10:10:45 am PST #4238 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I've only had one friend who was a trust-fund baby (her grandfather was Dubuque, the meat packing company), and after she got her fun-but-not-very-practical Art degree, she was able to get by with a part-time job in a gallery after graduation and still live in a really nice apartment in Milwaukee right on the lake (there were some Bucks players living down the hall). Definitely a different life than mine!
Laga - Dec 18, 2009 10:11:29 am PST #4239 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
The Ultimate Zoom-out, from the Himalayas to the horizon of our Universe and back
It's the total perspective vortex!
Polter-Cow - Dec 18, 2009 10:20:20 am PST #4240 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I was struck by the light time from Earth and the fact that just the goddamn Milky Way galaxy is HUGE. It makes me feel better about the fact that all the explorations in Star Trek were only in "the galaxy" and not the rest of the universe. The galaxy is big!
Calli - Dec 18, 2009 10:21:58 am PST #4241 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
The Ultimate Zoom-out
Very nifty. I think this would make a great meditation device.
WindSparrow - Dec 18, 2009 10:22:05 am PST #4242 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.
Jilli should definitely collect a comfortable living just for showing up.
I kinda wish I were something so superlatively that I could qualify for that as well.
Gudanov - Dec 18, 2009 10:37:23 am PST #4243 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
I was struck by the light time from Earth and the fact that just the goddamn Milky Way galaxy is HUGE.
Cosmic distances are so vast it's hard to comprehend.
The closest star other than the sun is 4 ly away. Flying on the Concorde (1,400 mph cruise) it would take 1.9 million years to get there. The disk of the Milky Way is about 1,000 ly thick, and about 100,000 ly in diameter.
I can say that stuff empirically, but I really can't mentally grasp that kind of distance.
WindSparrow - Dec 18, 2009 10:43:24 am PST #4244 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.
Glad the ~ma worked for you, meara.
Much ~ma for Matt.