What's a good magazine company to work for in NY? After college I'm thinking about moving there and finding a writing job. (:
Aw. Bless you, sweet deluded child.
It's simple. I slap 'em around a bit, torture 'em, make their lives hell...Sure, the nice guys'll run away,but every now and then you'll find a prince like Spike who gets off on it.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
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.
Amy - Jul 22, 2010 8:56:42 am PDT #13991 of 30001
Because books.
Pix - Jul 22, 2010 9:01:05 am PDT #13992 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
By all that's holy, Kat! Why would you DO that to your friends? Scarred. For. Life.
tommyrot - Jul 22, 2010 9:01:31 am PDT #13993 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
5 Confusing Biblical Rules (and What They May Mean)
For my book, The Year of Living Biblically, I spent 12 months trying to follow every rule in the Old Testament. Even the obscure one-like stoning adulterers (I used pebbles) and never shaving your beard (I did a lot of itching). My challenge: to reconcile the Bible’s easy-to-grasp wisdom with some of its seemingly baffling laws. The following are a few of the more arcane rules I found along the way, with possible reasons behind them.
1. THE RULE: “…she shall put the rainment of her capitivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month; and after that thou shalt go in unto her and be her husband…” (from Deuteronomy 21:10-14)
THE TRANSLATION: If you capture a beautiful woman during war, and you want to marry her, you must first have her shave her head and trim her nails. Then you must live with her for a month without touching her. After that, she’s all yours.
POSSIBLE EXPLANATION: Think of it like gun control-it’s a mandatory waiting period. If you still want to marry a bald, short-nailed woman after a month of no sex, then maybe it truly is love.
Um... huh?
3. THE RULE: “…thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed; neither shall a garment of mingled linen and woolen come upon thee.” (Leviticus 19:19)
THE TRANSLATION: Don’t wear clothes made of mixed fibers. Wool-and-linen blends are particularly bad. Polycotton is probably OK.
POSSIBLE EXPLANATION: The Old Testament was obsessed with separating things. (Don’t wear mixed fibers; don’t mix milk and meat.) According to many biblical scholars, the idea was to drill the notion of separation into the ancient Israelite mind. This way, they would remain separate from teh pagans and not intermarry-a sin even worse than mixing wool and linen.
Jesse - Jul 22, 2010 9:01:52 am PDT #13994 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I saw that community on the home page, and I was just as glad to have unsubscribed....
Wolves In the Walls is Dylan's current favorite book.
Good to know! And he might watch preschool-targeted TV, right?
Trudy Booth - Jul 22, 2010 9:03:59 am PDT #13995 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Aw. Bless you, sweet deluded child.
That's not even an Ugly Betty's worth of knowlege. She's learned of life from old musicals.
Jessica - Jul 22, 2010 9:04:13 am PDT #13996 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
And he might watch preschool-targeted TV, right?
SuperWhy, Curious George, and Dinosaur Train are what we currently Tivo for him.
Vortex - Jul 22, 2010 9:09:11 am PDT #13997 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
If I can wrangle it, I will happily donate any stem cells they can extract, but I really don't want to take any part of it home with me.
My SIL kept hers and froze it for a while, then planted it under a new tree (option 5).
Tom Scola - Jul 22, 2010 9:10:14 am PDT #13998 of 30001
They pay me in WOIMS
What's a good magazine company to work for in NY? After college I'm thinking about moving there and finding a writing job. (:
Should I forward the tweeting job listing?
Atropa - Jul 22, 2010 9:12:26 am PDT #13999 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
The history of Jilli's Home Away From Home at Disneyland.
Home home home!
(Dammit, why does that never work? "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" doesn't work like the movie said, either.)
Connie Neil - Jul 22, 2010 9:15:00 am PDT #14000 of 30001
brillig
"Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" doesn't work like the movie said, either.
Not that you've noticed, anyway.