So, how was your summer? Mine was fun. Saw some fish. Went mad with hunger. Hallucinated a whole bunch.

Angel ,'Conviction (1)'


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.


DavidS - Mar 20, 2011 5:09:42 pm PDT #29333 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Now I have to go there, just to wander and soak in the sight of all that stained glass and architecture and sculpture.

You'll have to plan carefully because it's only open to the public one day a year. Which is why more people haven't already seen it, I guess.


erin_obscure - Mar 20, 2011 5:11:26 pm PDT #29334 of 30001
Occasionally I’m callous and strange

drinking chocolate:hot cocoa as havarti:american cheese

or thinks me. Mmmmm, liquidy melted chocolate. We have a dessert place called pix patiserrie and i once got the most astonishing drinking chocolate there, it was like smooth warm ganache. I couldn't even finish my cup it was so rich (and all ya'll who have ever dined with me know that i am no wuss when it comes to rich chocolatey goodness!). Good stuff.


Beverly - Mar 20, 2011 5:11:36 pm PDT #29335 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Even if I lurk outside the doors and look pitiful? They won't let me in? Foo and darn. I shall just have to, as you say, plan carefully.


DavidS - Mar 20, 2011 5:12:30 pm PDT #29336 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

The best hot chocolate I ever had was in Paris at a Salon de The that had a family recipe that they'd handed down for a hundred years. Lifting the lid on that pot was like a chocolate bong.


DavidS - Mar 20, 2011 5:13:45 pm PDT #29337 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Even if I lurk outside the doors and look pitiful?

Maybe I could write you a note: "Bev appreciates beauty on a particularly spiritual level. Other beauty seekers are mere philistines compared to Bev's rapturous indulgence in the bounty of the world. Please let her in or she'll make puppy faces all day."


Beverly - Mar 20, 2011 5:14:40 pm PDT #29338 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

German gasthaus, edge of an alpine lake at dawn. Cold to the bone. Hot chocolate served in a silver pot, made with unpasteurized milk straight from the cow, no sugar, with a mountain of whipped fresh cream on top. And a bowl of extra whipped cream, in case you ran out.

Mercy.


Beverly - Mar 20, 2011 5:16:46 pm PDT #29339 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Please let her in or she'll make puppy faces all day.

That should do it. Thank you!


-t - Mar 20, 2011 5:17:12 pm PDT #29340 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I guess [link] isn't the Williams-Sonoma thing you want.

Dagoba is another one I love, Bev! The xocolatl is in my cupboard as a matter of fact, and it's good but I just don't want it all that often. Is that the one that has the "stir eleven times in a clockwise direction, and then eleven times counter-clockwise while thinking good thoughts" directions? Because I find myself doing that whenever I am stirring anything, now, wherever I got it.

Edited for correct name, wth brain?


Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 20, 2011 5:18:52 pm PDT #29341 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Wait, George Lucas named the swamp planet after a cocoa drink?


Jesse - Mar 20, 2011 5:19:19 pm PDT #29342 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

No, this one: [link]