Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


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.


Polter-Cow - Oct 06, 2010 8:49:40 am PDT #27935 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Where was I on the sixteenth? Let me check LJ and b.org and my email. It's all on record somewhere.

Can I go home now? Please?

Ha, yeah. That is totally how I remember what the hell I was doing on a particular day. Or I go back through my Google Calendar.

Halloween costume idea: Abacus-face

That looks like that thing from Spirited Away. But with an abacus.


Liese S. - Oct 06, 2010 8:54:06 am PDT #27936 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yay, raise!

Yay, good interview!

I'm sorry to hear about your family's loss, but it's good her brother was able to be with her at the end.

And Tom, I too see progress with you, and just the fact that you're able to express it with us is a big deal. Keep plugging away.


§ ita § - Oct 06, 2010 9:03:54 am PDT #27937 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

10 greatest TV pilots:

    • Twin Peaks
    • My So Called Life
    • Hill Street Blues
    • The Westerner
    • Star Trek
    • The Sopranos
    • Miami Vice
    • Lost
    • 24
    • Homicide: Life On The Streets

I think that's a pretty good list of shows that came out of the cage swinging (I'm pretty sure I fucked up that metaphor). Never seen The Westerner, though, so I can't comment on that. But all the rest were very "Whoa. What are you doing here? What are we in for?" even if they never delivered on the promise, or devolved into parodies of themselves (yeah, Bauer, I'm looking at you).

Completely unrelatedly, go you, Tom. I think not remembering is perfectly normal under average circumstances, and even more so under yours. I wish it didn't have to be hard for you, because you don't deserve hard things, but if wishes were horses, well, I'd be really irritated, because how many horses do you need, and how does that help Scola?


ChiKat - Oct 06, 2010 9:05:25 am PDT #27938 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

Yay, Suzi!!!!! That's wonderful!

Tom, what Teppy said.

I don't remember large swaths of my childhood, but I always assumed that meant I had a dull childhood, except for especially interesting vacations or seeing a deer a close range back in the hills and such. I've got a highlights reel, not a transcript.

This is me. I remember highlights, but not day-to-day stuff.


tommyrot - Oct 06, 2010 9:08:49 am PDT #27939 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.

This is me. I remember highlights, but not day-to-day stuff.

I think very few people can remember their day-to-day stuff of their childhood.

I've always found memory very fascinating, even before I was old enough to attend school. I remember when I was about four, wondering why I remembered some stuff on some days but not other days. I figured out that having an emotional reaction to something that happened was the reason people remembered old stuff as opposed to just forgetting it.


Jesse - Oct 06, 2010 9:11:58 am PDT #27940 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Completely unrelatedly, go you, Tom. I think not remembering is perfectly normal under average circumstances, and even more so under yours. I wish it didn't have to be hard for you, because you don't deserve hard things, but if wishes were horses, well, I'd be really irritated, because how many horses do you need, and how does that help Scola?

This!


Polter-Cow - Oct 06, 2010 9:13:11 am PDT #27941 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I remember various scenes and images from my childhood, but little else at this point. Although for some of it I wonder whether it was real or not.


Trudy Booth - Oct 06, 2010 9:14:54 am PDT #27942 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

Scola, you're the bravest man I've ever met.


msbelle - Oct 06, 2010 9:18:31 am PDT #27943 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

What I remember as very specific instances where the conversations seem very clear to me and even visuals from the rooms or clothing - those are the early childhood memories people most often dispute with me. It seems how I remember things at that age was not so often the reality.

As for lost memories, whole chunks of college are in an alcohol fog. Do not remember classes, people, or events from whole chunks of Junior year.


Ouise - Oct 06, 2010 9:18:42 am PDT #27944 of 30001
Socks are a running theme throughout the series. They are used as symbols of freedom, redemption and love.

Although for some of it I wonder whether it was real or not.

ha! Yes, I have that too. Apparently my childhood dreams and memories feel the same. I can apply logic to some of them - for instance, I am fairly certain that my parents did not allow us to form a human chain down into the storm drain to retrieve a tennis ball.