I never really had to deal with those issues. My mom died when she was 50 (my next birthday), and my Dad had his second wife with him to take care of him. JZ's parents are relatively young and healthy and will almost certainly be around long enough to see Matilda graduate from college. (Knock wood.)
Anya: We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment. Giles: Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing fake tunnel on the side of a mountain.
'Touched'
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 21, 2011 9:08:11 pm PDT #29517 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DavidS - Mar 21, 2011 9:10:27 pm PDT #29518 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
In a separate post, I'll note: Mets fans! Luis Castillo and Oliver Perez both released within days of each other. You gotta cut away the dead wood before you grow something healthy. But at least you've got a good GM in Sandy Alderson to make some ballsy but smart decisions. So, take heart Tom and Amy. He'll have your ship righted in three years.
P.M. Marc - Mar 21, 2011 9:40:34 pm PDT #29519 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
I'm in the middle of the paintball episode right now, and oh, mothereffing gee,
Just finished it, and OMG, yes!
Sparky1 - Mar 22, 2011 2:46:26 am PDT #29520 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
Lots of ~ma, Burrell, for Cody's mother and your family.
Speaking of which, the American teacher who has now been confirmed dead in Japan is the granddaughter of a friend of my mother's. So a little ~ma in the direction of VA wouldn't hurt. [link]
I have a meeting with a professor this morning which I dread, because she is impossible.
Tom Scola - Mar 22, 2011 3:14:44 am PDT #29521 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Luis Castillo and Oliver Perez both released within days of each other.
And Castillo was immediately picked up by the Phillies. That could be a disaster in the making for us.
sumi - Mar 22, 2011 4:53:26 am PDT #29522 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Chicken in a cunning hat. . .
tommyrot - Mar 22, 2011 5:01:17 am PDT #29523 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.
Oh dear.
HOWTO raise a Eugenic Baby (old ad)
This Physical Culture ad for The Correspondence School of Gospel and Scientific Eugenics (whose principal had the comedy name of "M.E. Teats," no less!) manages to capture everything abhorrent about both faith and science, and is a kind of perfect parcel of awfulness, from the mad, stary schoolmarm and pinch-faced schoolmaster on the letterhead to the great! abundance! of exclamation!! marks!!!, to the testimonials from proud parents of "Eugenic Babies."
Bigger version: [link]
lisah - Mar 22, 2011 5:27:16 am PDT #29524 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
I'm in the middle of the paintball episode right now
We have not seen that one yet!!
sumi - Mar 22, 2011 5:47:45 am PDT #29525 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
§ ita § - Mar 22, 2011 6:06:53 am PDT #29526 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We have not seen that one yet!!
It's freaking golden. I know I missed half the allusions.