Old trusty soda machine. I push you for root beer, you give me Coke.

Willow ,'End of Days'


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.


Lee - Jun 29, 2010 7:21:09 pm PDT #9692 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I really want to get back to San Francisco

Yes, you do!!!!!


javachik - Jun 29, 2010 7:32:36 pm PDT #9693 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

Plei!! Are you home now all safe and sound?? So great to finally have met you.

Teppy, yes, get back out here, please.


Trudy Booth - Jun 29, 2010 7:51:40 pm PDT #9694 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

DH got quoted by the NYT, which has made his day:

Sparky, that is seriously exciting!


Atropa - Jun 29, 2010 8:14:06 pm PDT #9695 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I need a quick sanity check from Buffistas who are around tweens and teens more often than I am: kids who are considered "preps" don't dye their hair wacky colors like blue or purple, right?

(I'm working on a new GCS column, and have a letter from a cranky babybat about how her parents won't let her dye her hair black, only purple or blue, and that her parents think she's a PREP, OMG. Poor confused babybat.)


beth b - Jun 29, 2010 8:27:32 pm PDT #9696 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

Odd colored hair is rebellion, so not likely to be preppy

But I don't see a lot of preppy kids in CA. Not even on the street.

Of course my sister who was very preppy since birth has bright pink ends on the back of her head. ( she is 40 now)

So that isn't helpful

yay for mac

and sympathies , Sheryl


Burrell - Jun 29, 2010 8:53:14 pm PDT #9697 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I am wondering how one confuses preppy and goth. I am also wondering about being OK with purple hair or blue hair but drawing the line at black. Seems arbitrary to me.


Polter-Cow - Jun 29, 2010 10:20:03 pm PDT #9698 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Like, from 2001 to 2007, I think, I visited every year except maybe one.

So I moved here and you stopped coming. I SEE HOW IT IS.


zuisa - Jun 29, 2010 10:20:15 pm PDT #9699 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)

That seemed odd to me too. Black is a hair color that is more or less found on people's heads naturally.... purple and blue not so much.

I accidentally dyed my hair purple once. It was awesome.


billytea - Jun 29, 2010 10:26:48 pm PDT #9700 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I accidentally dyed my hair purple once. It was awesome.

I am of the opinion that any circumstances that could lead to an accidental dye job are prima facie awesome.

I too find the colour thing odd. Is it because blue and purple are perky or something, while black is too Wednesday Addams?


zuisa - Jun 29, 2010 10:29:02 pm PDT #9701 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)

That was my only thought - purple = fun, black = satanist, or something.

And I meant to be dying my hair, the box just lied to me completely. I sent my mother a picture because I KNEW she'd be furious (she is very anti-hair colors not found in nature) but lives thousands of miles from me, so her annoyance was just amusing. But the purple WAS pretty awesome.