I myself personally believe in the Boneless Chicken Ranch, where ripe chickens drop naturally from the trees when they're ready to be eaten.
Do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
Theodosia - Feb 28, 2010 4:58:52 am PST #11932 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"
msbelle - Feb 28, 2010 5:00:05 am PST #11933 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
best not let mac meet Matilda. He feels compelled to tell all children that I do not believe in Santa et al.
Jessica - Feb 28, 2010 5:03:19 am PST #11934 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Cash, have you looked at either of the Parenting Beyond Belief books? I haven't read them myself, but I've heard good things.
(The one point where I find myself violently disagreeing with him is that he takes his kids to as many different churches as possible so they can get exposed to different religious ideas. Which is fine if you're an atheist with a Christian background, but not really helpful to anyone trying to raise a family of secular Jews.)
I wish there were a congregation of the Society for Humanistic Judaism closer to me - the NYC chapter meets in various synagogues and UU churches in Manhattan and all the services would get us home LONG past D's bedtime. And like everything else in NYC, membership is hella expensive.
JZ - Feb 28, 2010 5:09:32 am PST #11935 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
best not let mac meet Matilda. He feels compelled to tell all children that I do not believe in Santa et al.
Meh. I kinda don't even want to do believing in Santa at all--the road to disbelief was kind of traumatic for me, and I think it was for Emmett as well. I'd be perfectly happy to transition over the next year or so from "Real guy with a magic key [since we have no chimney]" to "Was a real guy, was a saint, did lots of good things for as many people as he could, and now we remember his goodness by telling these stories about him."
Sheryl - Feb 28, 2010 5:09:47 am PST #11936 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Going to a concert tonight.
aurelia - Feb 28, 2010 5:13:07 am PST #11937 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
A history of Old Spice commercials. [link]
Jesse - Feb 28, 2010 5:15:55 am PST #11938 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
ION, today's early morning old-school L&O has Gina Torres and Claire Danes!
DavidS - Feb 28, 2010 6:17:58 am PST #11939 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
About the fifth thing Matilda said this morning was, "Where's my pony?"
Followed shortly thereafter by, "I want to see Lily again."
Burrell - Feb 28, 2010 6:18:55 am PST #11940 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
best not let mac meet Matilda. He feels compelled to tell all children that I do not believe in Santa et al.
My kids don't seem to have trouble accepting that not everyone believes in Santa and the tooth fairy without it undermining their beliefs. Of course Franny didn't believe in the tooth fairy herself until she decided to change her mind.
In other words, kids can be OK with things that adults are not.
In me news, I caught my kids' cold and can now accurately judge how sick they are. I am bummed because I wanted to go to brunch with Perkins et al, but I don't want to expose any wee ones to this chesty cold.
Burrell - Feb 28, 2010 6:20:24 am PST #11941 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Hec, we really need to arrange a b.org 2.0 F2F for all the kids. It would be such a blast.