No power in the 'verse can stop me.

River ,'War Stories'


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.


§ ita § - Oct 11, 2010 1:37:33 pm PDT #28972 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Courtney Cox and David Arquette separate.


Jesse - Oct 11, 2010 1:42:41 pm PDT #28973 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Aw, that's too bad.


Burrell - Oct 11, 2010 1:50:05 pm PDT #28974 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Sean, no one has called you an asshole. I can only speak for myself, but you have caused no lingering offense, and I would hate to see you feel wounded over a passing conversation.

I suspect that the continuing discussion about titles has more to do with the way we tend to dissect language and social custom here at b.org. I don't know that we've discussed this one before.


Hil R. - Oct 11, 2010 1:50:49 pm PDT #28975 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Most of my students address me as "Professor" (no last name there, just Professor), even though I'm not actually a professor. I usually don't say anything, mostly because explaining to them that I'm not a professor would take too much time. I introduce myself and sign all my class emails as Dr. LastName, but I think most of them can't figure out how to pronounce my last name, so they just go with Professor. There are a few who've started calling me Dr. LastInitial, and I'm fine with that.


megan walker - Oct 11, 2010 1:52:01 pm PDT #28976 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I thought you had a tenure-track position, Hil. Is that not the case?


Hil R. - Oct 11, 2010 2:00:01 pm PDT #28977 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I thought you had a tenure-track position, Hil. Is that not the case?

Nope, I'm a lecturer.


Jesse - Oct 11, 2010 2:08:06 pm PDT #28978 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oy vey. I just had to potentially start something on Facebook. Really sad story -- I guess someone one of my contacts knows was killed by a hit and run driver. But he says she was killed by some "foreigner," someone else responds he was probably illegal... But I saw a TV story where they actually talked to the guy and he sounds 100% local. So I had to mention it. Because come ON.


§ ita § - Oct 11, 2010 2:12:47 pm PDT #28979 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Okay, I know people take their cosplay seriously, and some of the results are excellent, but $4K, seriously? My mind, she is naive and blown. Because that's just the dosh, not the work.


Steph L. - Oct 11, 2010 2:16:57 pm PDT #28980 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

That Carnage suit is awesome.


§ ita § - Oct 11, 2010 2:17:45 pm PDT #28981 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I can't believe it was so relatively cheap. But the steampunk Iron Man rocks my socks.