Oooh, Pete is taking me to Purple tonight. The place that a bunch of us went during the f2f!
Awesome! I wish I'd gone on one of the earlier expeditions. Much as I nommed at Wild Ginger, I think Purple was some of the best food I had on the trip.
I was under the impression that I was your big comfy blanky.
Oz ,'Him'
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.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 17, 2009 9:15:59 am PST #818 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
JZ - Nov 17, 2009 9:23:16 am PST #819 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.
Now I'm completely abashed and sad at the fact that my not being a successful writer is completely explained by the fact that I practically never write.
So I'll deflect all the various nerves and flushed cheeks by saying Go you! with the Seth McFarlane hating! Cracking gimp jokes when not in fact yourself a gimp (at least, nobody I've googled up has told me otherwise about him) does not make him edgy and it sure doesn't make him brave.
brenda m - Nov 17, 2009 9:27:54 am PST #820 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Oooh, Pete is taking me to Purple tonight. The place that a bunch of us went during the f2f!
Excellent.
We really had some amazing food at this F2F.
javachik - Nov 17, 2009 9:28:58 am PST #821 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Seska, I am curious: my cousin's husband is a professor of sociology at McMaster's and I think his emphasis is disability. (My cousin is also a sociologist, but she's at U of Toronto and her specialty is immigration.) Have you had occasion to read any papers by Robert Wilton?
-t - Nov 17, 2009 9:29:53 am PST #822 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Still sad that I missed the excursion to Purple. I will have to make a trip to Seattle just to eat there at some point.
erikaj - Nov 17, 2009 9:30:34 am PST #823 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Looks like my irrational anger grazed the thread...may I have the ultimate revenge when I get notes from HBO on how to improve my characterization of a cartoonist from a New England state who was drawn to disability humor due to considering his past as a premature ejaculator "practically the same thing" (Sherman Alexie once made a Hillerman-like character an impotent bedwetter in one of his books...My mother does say that "Indians get even," a lot.) It sounds silly, but I did sort of lose my taste for Hillermaniana after that.ETA: It's not just the appropriation...lots of people do that, to varying effect, including the luscious Hugh Laurie, who constantly makes it difficult for me to be all "Disabled parts for Disabled Actors," just by being so fucking good. But it bugs me because SMF(heh!) gets paid buckets for such brilliant comments on the zeigeist (best be careful...sounding like Mr. Simon now) as "gee, those girls from Facts of Life got fat," mixed in with Joe the Gimp Cop, while people tell me my stuff won't sell. Seriously, America? Gee, I watched TV after school too. And I could learn to write 'wicked retahded' I can haz three-show-deal nao? (You could pay me less money than you could believe possible, sadly. At least till Ari asked me just how profoundly I was brain-damaged, signing my life away for that. Then, maybe not.)
JZ - Nov 17, 2009 9:41:19 am PST #824 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.
my characterization of a cartoonist from a New England state who was drawn to disability humor due to considering his past as a premature ejaculator "practically the same thing"
No! Seriously? ...NO. It's just not possible that a college-educated human being could say such a thing. No.
...Really?
Get even. Get even a lot.
erikaj - Nov 17, 2009 9:49:36 am PST #825 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
No, I made that up.(/Olbermann) But I guess I really am good at it.
Vortex - Nov 17, 2009 10:05:52 am PST #826 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Oooh, Pete is taking me to Purple tonight. The place that a bunch of us went during the f2f!
Love that place!
P.M. Marc - Nov 17, 2009 10:27:06 am PST #827 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I've even gotten weirdly fond of her unapologetically abrasive style; some readers seem to just get antagonized and flamey, but there's such a weight of experience and knowledge behind the bristling.
Heh. Yeah, umm, from my experience with her in her fandom days, she's on the list with C-- G-- in the RUN! RUN SCREAMING! category.
Though, that said, it's unfortunate that she's having to deal with her PTSD.