We have missed an opportunity this year to have her go as Darth Vader. It would have been perfect.
hah!
Where is my family, folks? I'm sure the kids have eaten, but I haven't, and Cody hasn't, and I'm hungry.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
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.
Burrell - Oct 29, 2010 5:36:03 pm PDT #2811 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Sue - Oct 29, 2010 5:37:53 pm PDT #2812 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Sara, I once found a shirt that had fallen under the couch cushions and into the crack of the chair over a year after I lost it.
sarameg - Oct 29, 2010 5:39:45 pm PDT #2813 of 30001
My clothes only come off upstairs and there ain't much furniture up there! Sorry, I am a little crazed.
DavidS - Oct 29, 2010 5:41:04 pm PDT #2814 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Kat - Oct 29, 2010 5:41:55 pm PDT #2815 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I did, sara! We are so excited!
shrift - Oct 29, 2010 5:47:04 pm PDT #2816 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I'm going down with some teammates though and we're only staying Saturday.
Aww. I'm gone that weekend.
sarameg - Oct 29, 2010 5:47:15 pm PDT #2817 of 30001
Just wanted to make sure I hadn't typo'd something. Been doing that a lot lately.
Spidra Webster - Oct 29, 2010 5:55:14 pm PDT #2818 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
trunk and treat
What is that?
My mom took my sister and I out to dinner. Got more exposure to how entitled my has-never-moved-away-or-paid-her-own-bills sister is so I had to bite my tongue. But it was nice spending time with my mom. And good to get some fried chicken that didn't come from a fast food place (I made myself eat some greens to sorta compensate).
I showed my mom several gorgeous color pics from Rosalind Creasy's Edible Landscaping book so she can see that edible gardening does NOT have to be ugly. She agrees that those pictures, at least, were not of ugly gardens.
Forced myself to be productive and now I'll take a bath and go to bed early and then I'll make myself get up at 6:30 am again tomorrow. New schedule, dammit.
Sue - Oct 29, 2010 6:26:21 pm PDT #2819 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Really interesting article on the evolution of the hipster: [link] It's pretty thoughtful on how the culture came about. But man, this passage is such a burn:
One could say, exaggerating only slightly, that the hipster moment did not produce artists, but tattoo artists, who gained an entire generation’s arms, sternums, napes, ankles, and lower backs as their canvas. It did not produce photographers, but snapshot and party photographers: Last Night’s Party, Terry Richardson, the Cobra Snake. It did not produce painters, but graphic designers. It did not yield a great literature, but it made good use of fonts. And hipsterism did not make an avant-garde; it made communities of early adopters.
msbelle - Oct 29, 2010 6:41:52 pm PDT #2820 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
muffins in the oven. subbed half the flour for whole wheat flour, subbed honey for half the sugar and then just cut half the oil.
trunk or treat is where people set up games and treat stations in the trunks of their cars in a parking lot, often times at churches. Considered a safer way to trick or treat and in a community of people that the kids already know.