Those disposable shoes would have been useful for bar and bat mitzvah parties. A bunch of 12- and 13-year-old girls wearing heels, we'd usually all take our shoes off by the second song. The well-prepared parents always had a big bag of white athletic socks for us to put on so that we wouldn't get splinters.
Shh! I kinda wanna hear me talking right now!
Glory ,'The Killer In Me'
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.
Hil R. - Sep 28, 2010 3:58:22 am PDT #26419 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Jesse - Sep 28, 2010 4:02:30 am PDT #26420 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
At my cousin's wedding over the weekend, there wasn't even a ton of dancing, but after dinner, I noticed my other cousin was barefoot and the friend she was talking to was back in her flip-flops. Heh.
Jesse - Sep 28, 2010 4:06:51 am PDT #26421 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hey, David Simon won a MacArthur "genius" grant! [link] There are a couple of funny bits at the end of the article:
MacArthur winner Amir Abo-Shaeer, a public high school physics teacher in California, said he was expecting a call from a college student named Liz Brooks who was interested in his work when the foundation called to tell him about the grant.
There was no Liz Brooks. She was a creation of the foundation to get the busy teacher on the phone. "I am prepared to lie like a rug," admitted Gallucci, who notified Abo-Shaeer of the grant.
and:
Simon, the HBO producer, said his wife would like to thank the foundation for "five years of fresh material." The morning after she heard the news, Simon's wife, best-selling novelist Laura Lippman, told him, "Hey Genius, you forgot to take the trash out last night."
Sparky1 - Sep 28, 2010 4:19:20 am PDT #26422 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
The MacArthur Foundation also gave my DH's non-profit $500,000 last week w/ no strings attached to the money. Not a genius grant, but still awesome.
§ ita § - Sep 28, 2010 4:20:00 am PDT #26423 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
All of her "We've had no summer" stuff is just wrong.
I was right! I was just a little early with the heat wave, is all. But it was bound to happen.
Have been up for four hours now. I really REALLY hope the assistant is in today. Heat wave days are brutal on migraines.
sarameg - Sep 28, 2010 4:23:51 am PDT #26424 of 30001
The Baltimore Sun reported that Simon was told to contact a DC lawyer on a personal matter, and he was afraid he was getting sued or something.
Jesse - Sep 28, 2010 4:25:49 am PDT #26425 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The MacArthur Foundation also gave my DH's non-profit $500,000 last week w/ no strings attached to the money. Not a genius grant, but still awesome.
Congrats to them!
smonster - Sep 28, 2010 4:27:04 am PDT #26426 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
The MacArthur Foundation also gave my DH's non-profit $500,000 last week w/ no strings attached to the money. Not a genius grant, but still awesome.
Woo hoo!
Calli - Sep 28, 2010 4:39:18 am PDT #26427 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
The MacArthur Foundation also gave my DH's non-profit $500,000 last week w/ no strings attached to the money.
That's great!
Sparky1 - Sep 28, 2010 4:44:39 am PDT #26428 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
At first they didn't understand what was happening, because they just got a phone call that said they were getting the money, and some paperwork would arrive that they'd need to sign. The paperwork came like an hour later, and the money arrives as a lump sum in a couple of weeks.
I keep sending my DH suggestions of how to spend it. I'm not sure he appreciates my input.