The creator of Spooks (MI-5) speaks out about the recently unveiled Russian spy ring.
I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
DavidS - Jun 29, 2010 5:37:06 pm PDT #9669 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
sarameg - Jun 29, 2010 5:46:56 pm PDT #9670 of 30001
I think about the friends I've made thanks to this box (or rather, spiral sized thing) and how it was so hard to get my parents to wrap their head around it, and then they met some, and now the fact that I have friends I've never actually met, but would offer a bed or crash with without hesitation, doesn't even raise an eyebrow. Which is especially funny, since growing up, we always were hosting people we'd never met before, vouched for by fellow quakers or activists.
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2010 6:13:45 pm PDT #9671 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have to say, my parents never really questioned the people in the box, which is weird, since they're pretty conventional in most ways. They don't get why I like Buffy, but I didn't get pushback about driving across the US to stay with...someone. I didn't ask Allyson for sure until New Mexico.
Congrats on the paperwork, msbelle!
sarameg - Jun 29, 2010 6:21:52 pm PDT #9672 of 30001
It's cool and dry enough outside (finally) I've opened the french doors to vent the house for the first time in 2 weeks. Really glad I wasn't here last week.
Despite my dad being an early adopter (arpanet days,) my parents never really found the internet as a social device, even to this day. I was supposed to show my mom how to navigate fb (account set up by my SIL) to see grandkid pictures. The extent to which they use it socially is email and pictures to their kids. Beyond that, work and commerce only.
Pix - Jun 29, 2010 6:22:47 pm PDT #9673 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
My mom loves my "Buffy friends." She's met quite a few of them and loves our friendships. As soon as she realized you were real people and not axe murderers, she was all in. My dad was somewhat bemused by the concept (he's become more and more of a lovable curmudgeon the older he's gotten), but he, too, has come around finally and is utterly unfazed when I talk about seeing/staying with/confiding in you all. Of course, given the board is how I met their son-in-law, they're pretty well convinced it's a good place full of good (if weird, in the best possible way) people.
Congrats, msbelle and mac!
sarameg - Jun 29, 2010 6:26:15 pm PDT #9674 of 30001
lori and ita DID get a little scary with the rifle that time....
Bobcat vs Optimus Prime at the B'ham Zoo. I take sucky video, but you get the gist.
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2010 6:28:43 pm PDT #9675 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
lori and ita DID get a little scary with the rifle that time....
UNLOADED.
Plus, I can totally kill with my bare hands.
FWIW.
sarameg - Jun 29, 2010 6:31:36 pm PDT #9676 of 30001
HOW DID WE KNOW.
And I figured I'd have to piss you off in scrabble or something for you to try to kill me with your bare hands...
sarameg - Jun 29, 2010 6:35:12 pm PDT #9677 of 30001
FWIW, never play UNO with me.
Steph L. - Jun 29, 2010 6:39:23 pm PDT #9678 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
My mom loves my "Buffy friends." She's met quite a few of them and loves our friendships.
Heh. My mom has met Buffistas WITHOUT ME (Trudy and megan walker were in Vermont the same time as my mom and stepdad, and they all met up at my bro's restaurant).
(If anyone else has met my mom without me also being there, please speak up now.)