I have to keep retrieving my dad's hand drill, with its flat, painted wooden knob and gear handle, from H's toolbox. It sits under the lamp, along with a wooden hand plane. Elsewhere are the sad iron with the mechanically detaching wooden handle, on its own cast iron trivet, and a wooden coffee grinder with iron cup, burr, and fancy curvy crank handle. Old tools and implements--especially wood and iron, where the wood has been shaped and polished by decades of touch and the iron has an earned patina--are beautiful, and deserve display between use. Okay, the iron has seen use with us only as a bookend, but that's still *use*. I would not want to live in a closetful of them, however.
Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Now they're just nothing. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothing, and that's what they became.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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.
Beverly - Mar 18, 2011 2:56:51 pm PDT #29096 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Sue - Mar 18, 2011 3:01:42 pm PDT #29097 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Connie, I found a better pic through google: [link]
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Trudy Booth - Mar 18, 2011 3:10:46 pm PDT #29098 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
My issue with the mall hair is NOT the bigness, it's the untamed frizziness of it all.
Untamed? They worked HARD for that halo. Not a single hair touching another and sticking out at a 90% angle from the head was an ART FORM!
I know all malls look alike to some degree, but I swear I recognize that one girl from High School. This thing is giving me flashbacks. Was all the world suburban NJ in 1990?
Kat - Mar 18, 2011 3:19:34 pm PDT #29099 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Any thoughts on the new wonder woman costume?
Also, I love Ewan on a bike with a dog (and an adorable sweater/pea coat combo!)
Amy - Mar 18, 2011 3:22:21 pm PDT #29100 of 30001
Because books.
I saw that earlier today, Kat, and my first thought was BOOBIES.
Also, Adrienne Palicki is SO pretty, and the hair and the makeup there really aren't doing her any favors.
§ ita § - Mar 18, 2011 3:23:43 pm PDT #29101 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The costume looks cheap shiny. Too much like latex, too little like superheroics. But the script looks like a waste of Palicki and Thoms so far.
Kat - Mar 18, 2011 3:24:22 pm PDT #29102 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
The pants are just SO SO shiny. I mean. SHINY.
Consuela - Mar 18, 2011 3:25:04 pm PDT #29103 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I'm just glad she gets to wear pants. Er, of a sort.
Kat - Mar 18, 2011 3:25:22 pm PDT #29104 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
And her hair is no good. Sigh. She does NOT look good. Or even fierce. I prefer Rachel Bilson in a WW costume to this.
meara - Mar 18, 2011 3:34:03 pm PDT #29105 of 30001
Yeah, I was like "Maybe if the pants were less shiny? And/or darker blue?"