P-C,
Looking forward to seeing you, too. Sounds like we've got a bunch of fun stuff in mind while we're there.
Love isn't brains, children, it's blood, blood screaming inside you to work its will.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sheryl - Aug 07, 2011 10:58:04 am PDT #19680 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 07, 2011 11:04:59 am PDT #19681 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
Dear Claudia,
Identity theft is not an effective method of endearing yourself to others.
Cashmere - Aug 07, 2011 11:34:14 am PDT #19682 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Hec, over a year ago, I left my FB status page up and Owen found the mother of his best friend on my friend list--he promptly recorded a video message to her about how Kaleb should come over to our house and how much fun they would have.
I know a lot of adults who do not know how to record video on FB.
DavidS - Aug 07, 2011 11:53:14 am PDT #19683 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Identity theft is not an effective method of endearing yourself to others.
Yeah, her sister told her to go jump in an acid rain lake.
It actually turned out to be very funny exchange of sisterly invective.
Hec, over a year ago, I left my FB status page up and Owen found the mother of his best friend on my friend list--he promptly recorded a video message to her about how Kaleb should come over to our house and how much fun they would have.
My warning came too late!
Hey, you know what's entertaining? Adventure Time! Whoa, it's good and utterly bent.
Tom Scola - Aug 07, 2011 11:57:03 am PDT #19684 of 30001
hwæt
Hey, you know what's entertaining? Adventure Time!
Yeah, I was suspicious after I saw the pilot that they couldn't sustain that sort of thing, but now I'm sad that I haven't been watching it all along. So warm and cuddly and postapocalypty and completely subversive at the same time.
DavidS - Aug 07, 2011 12:06:02 pm PDT #19685 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
but now I'm sad that I haven't been watching it all along.
Me too! I just watched the episode where Finn and Jake decide to fight evil non-violently which causes nothing but trouble.
Jilli! It has vampires, and they're bitey.
§ ita § - Aug 07, 2011 12:57:16 pm PDT #19686 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've just been poking around LinkedIn, and making the assumption that people started their Bachelor's around age 18, I'm older than my former boss, and the same age as my current one. It's quite weird.
Burrell - Aug 07, 2011 1:09:16 pm PDT #19687 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Hey ita, do you know anything about tearing down the houses in Detroit? DH just mentioned that it's been going on for a while. A way to fight urban blight I guess?
DavidS - Aug 07, 2011 1:14:20 pm PDT #19688 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hey ita, do you know anything about tearing down the houses in Detroit? DH just mentioned that it's been going on for a while. A way to fight urban blight I guess?
I don't know if this is related, but there's a movement to shrink the size of Detroit's footprint so that it can have tight, but workable/vital urban core. So they're tearing stuff down.
Aims - Aug 07, 2011 1:20:22 pm PDT #19689 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
It is, but one of the things they are doing in their regentrification efforts include going into primarily minority neighborhoods and buying homes from folks that have been there for 50+ years. These people worked and worked and worked and paid off their homes and raised their families in these homes. That doesn't lend itself to equity value, but because the surrounding neighborhoods are bad and the economy is totally shit, they are barely being offered more than what they paid for the home in the 1960's. And just off the horizon, less than two miles from these homes, are very large McMansions being built. With HOAs that will pay premium monies for otherwise city-utilized services such as snow removal and quite possibly garbage removal.