Just keep walking, preacher-man.

River ,'Jaynestown'


Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Shir - Jun 03, 2011 1:34:51 am PDT #22521 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Hi. Quick announcement: I'm going dark until I'll finish some papers, a test (and my BA). Shouldn't take too long (about a month and a half, maybe two), but in the meanwhile - June's schedule just doesn't want me to go out and play.

You're in my thoughts, and ~mas, and schemes on how to get my ass to the U.S. sometime this September/October.


Calli - Jun 03, 2011 2:13:44 am PDT #22522 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

That's terrific, Barb--congratulations!

I'm sorry, Pix.

Schooling~ma to you, Shir. I'll look forward to seeing your pixels in July/August.


amyth - Jun 03, 2011 4:09:58 am PDT #22523 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen

So sorry, Pix. Wishing you all the best with the Tino situation, the car insurance, and stress in general.

Congrats, Barb! So awesome!

Good luck, Shir.

I have Frankie this weekend, while smonster's at the beach with her parents. Yay!


WindSparrow - Jun 03, 2011 4:25:10 am PDT #22524 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Ooh, have a Frankie-filled weekend, amyth! And smonster, I hope you have a lovely time with your folks at the beach.

Shir, best of luck and ~ma to you with this last push for your BA. Survive, and hang onto as much of your sanity as you can, so you can come back to us when it's done.

{{{{{Pix}}}}}

Note to self: Remember you have to go in to work two hours earlier than usual. 2pm. Remember 2pm. That means getting in the shower at 1:30.


smonster - Jun 03, 2011 4:47:12 am PDT #22525 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

I remember hoping one day gay would be normal. The future is turning out to be pretty awesome.

Yup.

And Laga, me too. And I was all like, where's the sassy badass I know and love? But in other ways, I like the books much better. Sookie and Bill aren't as fucking annoying as they are on the show.

CONGRATS AGAIN, BARB. So excited for you to be recognized for the very excellent story you wrote. I never burbled at you about it on email like I planned, but for now suffice to say that as a former band geek, athlete, and dancer, it hit me on many different levels and I LOVED IT. And while doing my big book purge, I held on to it, and most of the books I kept were childhood books.

amyth, when I got back to my house I actually had a moment of sadness when I realized Frankie wasn't going to greet me at the door. My baby! So glad he's coming with me to NOLA right away. Thanks for keeping him this weekend. Also, I went to the Weave and saw Lou B! And said goodbye to Al, that was sweet. Big hugs all around. We had such a long and storied working relationship. ::sniff::

Windsparrow! TWO O'CLOCK. Don't forget.

Okay, I've got someone picking up my couch, so I need to vacuum that and clear things away for moving it out. And finish packing for the beach, and take a shower, and pack some other things if I can. Oy.

I accidentally bought three bottles of nail polish at the drug store. Two were on sale for a buck each, and one was just the perfect glittery green that will be awesome for Mardi Gras.


Barb - Jun 03, 2011 6:22:11 am PDT #22526 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”

Thank you so much, guys-- after everything that book went through on its road to publication, I'm so happy to see it getting a little love, not the least of which is something like this:

I never burbled at you about it on email like I planned, but for now suffice to say that as a former band geek, athlete, and dancer, it hit me on many different levels and I LOVED IT.

smonster, when I get to NOLA (and I will get there, I will, my precioussssssessss) I'm a) gonna hug you stupid and b) buy you the biggest, gaudiest drink I can find in the Quarter. Then I'll hug you some more. Because that is just about the best comment I can receive on the book.

Pix, I'm so freakin' sorry about the Tino situation at work and the Evil Car Accident/Insurance Fiasco. Universe needs to back the hell offa my Bitches.

But oh, Pix-- guess what? As a result of winning at the Latino Book Awards, it looks like there s a good chance I may be invited to speak at the Latino Book Festival in early October, which is held on the campus of CSULA. I can come early or stay a day late can hang with you!


Laga - Jun 03, 2011 6:38:09 am PDT #22527 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

As a result of winning at the Latino Book Awards, it looks like there s a good chance I may be invited to speak at the Latino Book Festival in early October

Cool!

when I got back to my house I actually had a moment of sadness when I realized Frankie wasn't going to greet me at the door.

You just reminded me of a story I heard about Ewan MacGregor yesterday. He was working on a movie with a Jack Russell Terrier (sorry too lazy to gogle details right now) trained by the same person who handled Eddie from Frasier. The way you teach a dog to look at the actor (I heard) is to have the actor hold a piece of the dog's food between his eyes before you feed it to him, so he bcomes bonded to the actor and looks him in the eyes. I guess on the last day of shooting when Ewan realized he and the dog were going to part company he ran out and got himself a rescued poodle about the same size and color as the dog from the movie. He knew he could never live without a dog again.

{{{Pix}}} You are totally in the right here and the donation offer is really an amazing gesture.


amych - Jun 03, 2011 6:45:58 am PDT #22528 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Nah, you really don't want performing animals to form particular bonds with actors -- they'll probably work with hundreds of human actors in the course of a career, generally without a lot of rehearsal. Their bonds are with the trainer, not the actors. Anyway, it's fairly basic to train "look in this direction" behavior, especially when you can put said trainer right off camera in any direction.

On the other hand, that doesn't change how FREAKIN' ADORABLE it is that my secret celebrity bf Ewan got turned into a dog person.


amyth - Jun 03, 2011 6:52:50 am PDT #22529 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen

Ewan is my secret celebrity bf since forever, too, and I love that he got a rescued poodle. I'm both a Ewan person and a rescued poodle person.


Laga - Jun 03, 2011 7:04:53 am PDT #22530 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

The movie is Beginners and the interview was with the writer/director Mike Mills on NPR.

Mills did go on about how different the dog trainer he hired was. He said it was the best casting couch experience ever, asking a passel of Jack Russels "Now which one of you loves me the most?" but that most of the animal trainers were very rigid and strict. When Moose's trainer arrived she was in a car full of dogs and she handed the director a chihuahua through the window so she could maneuver herself out of the car. He said she was different from any other trainer and that's why he hired her.