My love for me now / Ain't hard to explain / The Hero of Canton / The man they call...ME.

Jayne ,'Jaynestown'


Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Laura - Jan 13, 2010 1:20:17 am PST #1162 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

Lots of healing ~ma for Alex and his GF. Transplants are an awesome thing.

Yay Epic! I'm glad to hear your mom is finally home.

The late night stuff is so very entertaining.

Early morning reports out of Haiti are very grim. A lot of the Haitian kids I know are here living with various extended family members because their parents sent the kids here. DH was texting with his boys all night.


Theodosia - Jan 13, 2010 3:54:35 am PST #1163 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Yeah, it sounds like not only was there wide devastation, but the capitol got hit the hardest, killing far too many government workers, which means that recovery efforts are going to be even more screwed up.


msbelle - Jan 13, 2010 4:16:53 am PST #1164 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

oh good lord, we have visitors from head office and vendor's head office in today - end of next and my boss is already yelling at people and bumbing his chest against excuses he expects to be given. He sees everything as people unjustly blaming us/him for their ineptitude. EVERYTHING. so much do not want.

ION, I wore more make-up today than I've worn in months, also a dragonfly broach that matches my drop earring. They are both in green and purple/amythyst stones, and they were both my grandmother's.

Summation - He can't take my joy.


Kat - Jan 13, 2010 4:19:03 am PST #1165 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Ooooh! The jewelry sounds very pretty. I put earrings in for the first time in a while and ouch. I need to find my pearls so I can just put them in a for a while and leave them.

I am exhuastamalated but it is has rained. YAY rain.


Jessica - Jan 13, 2010 4:22:22 am PST #1166 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

It's interesting that critics have argued that it took the show a while to find its footing because it's very funny from the get-go.

The original (never-aired) pilot was...not. It's unfortunate because by the time the show got to broadcast, they'd made such vast improvements, but critics who were reviewing the show for fall preview issues didn't get to see that version. It's not that critics just didn't "get it" - it's that the pilot they were shown was really not very good.


Jesse - Jan 13, 2010 4:25:04 am PST #1167 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

The only footing that needed to be found, I think, was in Jenna's character, when they re-cast.


Jessica - Jan 13, 2010 4:31:42 am PST #1168 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

There were also pacing issues. Mostly what I remember from the unaired pilot was that the timing was just off enough to make it uncomfortable instead of funny. It was right in the uncanny valley of humor.


§ ita § - Jan 13, 2010 4:51:48 am PST #1169 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I watched five or six episodes of 30 Rock. Tracy Morgan kept appearing. I gave up.


Jesse - Jan 13, 2010 4:54:49 am PST #1170 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh, I didn't mean about the pilot (which of course I never saw). I just meant the early eps as aired.

Tracy Morgan kept appearing. I gave up.

But that means Grizz and Dot Com! Almost worth watching just for them.


§ ita § - Jan 13, 2010 5:10:53 am PST #1171 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I can't make it past Tracy to whatever buttery goodness lies within. Just can't. He appalls me.