SALLY RIDE!
This is not funny. This... this is a morality tale about the evils of sake.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
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.
Liese S. - Sep 01, 2011 12:54:42 pm PDT #23636 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Scrappy - Sep 01, 2011 12:56:25 pm PDT #23637 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Sally Freakin' Ride. Let's face it, Allyson has an awesome job.
DavidS - Sep 01, 2011 1:00:10 pm PDT #23638 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It was great for me to be pregnant at the same time as Burrell (and our babies are EIGHT!! now).
Also, you were pregnant with Dillo when JZ was cooking up Matilda.
Erin, the important thing is that you feel shiny. But I do think you rock the bob.
I wonder if recruiters consider Al-Anon membership a positive worth seeking out. "If you can deal with alcoholic parents you can deal with our workplace."
Toddson - Sep 01, 2011 1:01:45 pm PDT #23639 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
They might, but I doubt they'd admit it.
DavidS - Sep 01, 2011 1:02:07 pm PDT #23640 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I got to speak to Sally Ride on the phone. SALLY RIDE. Yes, when I transferred her call over, I called my mom and squeeeeeed.
Cool! When I worked at WGBH I got to transfer a call from Alistair Cook. At Fantagraphics I got to take a call from Alan Moore.
JZ - Sep 01, 2011 1:05:54 pm PDT #23641 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I, uh, got to take a call from Dr. Dean Ornish once, wanting one of my docs to join an academic committee with him.
I also once took a call from a Dr. Pretorius, but I don't think he was the Dr. Pretorius.
Consuela - Sep 01, 2011 1:06:15 pm PDT #23642 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Sally Ride! So cool!
I once answered phones for John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band's managers. ... that's a pretty minor brush with fame, I have to admit. And I never met the band, and when I left, they didn't even give me a free copy of the new album. Jerks.
Allyson - Sep 01, 2011 1:08:08 pm PDT #23643 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
This is why I went bananas over the rock-bonding incident.
My scientists and engineers have taken to calling the class, "Allyson's Rock Class."
§ ita § - Sep 01, 2011 1:09:31 pm PDT #23644 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dean Ornish used to be married to my cousin. JZ, we're totally connected.
Amy - Sep 01, 2011 1:12:01 pm PDT #23645 of 30001
Because books.
I think my weirdest brush with "fame" was going to dinner with my boss and David Smith, Susan Smith's husband -- the Susan Smith who drowned her kids. (We published his book.)