Spike: At least give me Wesley's office since he's gone. Angel: He's not gone. He's on a leave of absence. Spike: Yeah, right. Boo-hoo. Thought he killed his bloody father. Try staking your mother when she's coming on to you! Harmony: Well…that explains a lot.

'Destiny'


Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


tommyrot - Jan 07, 2011 8:03:36 am PST #15335 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.

I just love this painting: [link]

It's from this exhibit:

Alex Pardee has an art show opening at Corey Helford Gallery on January 8, 2010 in Los Angeles. The gallery will give 500 mini giclee prints to the first 500 guests on opening night.

Coming off his work on the 2011 feature film release, "Sucker Punch", where Pardee partnered with filmmaker Zack Snyder and Warner Bros. Pictures to create original artwork for the film as well as art direction for the Comic-Con marketing campaign, Pardee has created "Vertigo", his most ambitious art exhibition to date. In his first solo at Corey Helford Gallery, the artist unveils the art of capturing nightmares with a collection of thirteen acrylic-on-cradled wood panel paintings, which are physical representations of darkly intense dream-state visions in the unique Pardee style. Each painting is accompanied by a framed document chronicling the nightmare's history, as related by world-famous nightmare hunter, Verti Parker, who inspired Pardee to create the exhibition. Also on display throughout the gallery will be a series of artifacts and evidence from the famous nightmare hunter's archive, including the actual music box he used to exorcise nightmares from patients, as well as an eight-foot taxidermy monster from Verti's very first nightmare hunt.

[link]

eta: Jilli might want to avoid this second link.


§ ita § - Jan 07, 2011 8:04:15 am PST #15336 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I was mucky in my post. One hundred one can be 101. It's alien to my ears, though. One hundred and one can't be 100.1. It's unclear.


-t - Jan 07, 2011 8:06:30 am PST #15337 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I was taught that "one hundred one" is more correct than "one hundred and one" but they both mean 101.


tommyrot - Jan 07, 2011 8:08:34 am PST #15338 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.

One hundred and one can't be 100.1. It's unclear.

Yeah. I don't see how you could omit the "point" here. I mean, it might make more sense that "ten one" is 10.1, but it's still wrong.


Consuela - Jan 07, 2011 8:19:21 am PST #15339 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

If we were talking about the freeway, I would put a the in front of it too.

Angeleno.

There is a bunch of BofA billboards at transit stops all over SF right now, talking about how you can check your bank account while you're "waiting for the MUNI" or "the BART". ::tears hair::

It's so annoying there's even an article in the Chronicle about it.


§ ita § - Jan 07, 2011 8:21:14 am PST #15340 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The BofA ads here say you can bank while in line for the taco truck. Huh.


Kathy A - Jan 07, 2011 8:29:59 am PST #15341 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Chicagoans tend to throw "the" before grocery store names, as well as making the store names possessive. So, instead of "Jewel," we go to "the Jewel's." It's a thing.

We call local highways by their honorary names instead of the numbers, so instead of "94," it's "the Edens," which makes traffic reports difficult for nonresidents to interpret. Traffic reporters never mention highway numbers--it's always "the Kennedy is 53 minutes from O'Hare to the Hubbard tunnel; the Tri-State is 22 minutes from Lake Cook to Dempster; the Jane Adams is clear."


lcat - Jan 07, 2011 8:30:31 am PST #15342 of 30001
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

For lunch style protein, back in the day when my kids wouldn't eat sandwiches, I'd send jerky or a hunk of summer sausage. You need to be careful because of the sodium but both are high in protein, easy to pack and are particularly good for kids who generally aren't hungry at lunch.


tommyrot - Jan 07, 2011 8:34:35 am PST #15343 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.

We call local highways by their honorary names instead of the numbers, so instead of "94," it's "the Edens," which makes traffic reports difficult for nonresidents to interpret.

I still don't know what highways the honorary names correspond to. But then I generally don't listen to traffic reports.


P.M. Marc - Jan 07, 2011 8:34:51 am PST #15344 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Who among you thinks "one hundred and one" means 100.1?

o.0?