Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'

'The Message'


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.


le nubian - Sep 04, 2011 12:59:26 pm PDT #24097 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

point to Georgia, their whole agriculture industry went up in flames this summer because their new laws made many people leave the state. I think they had vegetables and fruit dying in the farms unpicked.

Here is one article about the labor impact. It may make you crazy:

"We've had comments, some comments, that some restaurateurs are just now, they're uncomfortable now at this point hiring anybody who has a Hispanic surname or an Asian surname," Bremer told a state Senate hearing organized by Democrats last month.

[link]


§ ita § - Sep 04, 2011 1:28:09 pm PDT #24098 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Dominic West and Clarke Peters play Othello. Great interview.


Theodosia - Sep 04, 2011 1:53:51 pm PDT #24099 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

My new riposte to arguments against the Dream Act (that would let good students who were brought illegally to this country as children normalize their immigration status) is that in most cases, our country/state/county/city has put twelve or more years of educational money into these kids.

By deporting them, we're throwing away all that sunk cost.

It's arguably better in the long run we keep these kids (who are A students) around so we can collect money back in the form of income taxes, et cetera.


Consuela - Sep 04, 2011 2:07:19 pm PDT #24100 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I love the 21st century, where I can post to Buffistas from top of a mountain... I am sitting on a huge pile of granite, looking down at Donner Lake, and it's quite lovely here.


smonster - Sep 04, 2011 2:29:29 pm PDT #24101 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

It's arguably better in the long run we keep these kids (who are A students) around so we can collect money back in the form of income taxes, et cetera.

Oooh, good one.

Hellooooo up there, Consuela!!!


sarameg - Sep 04, 2011 2:31:28 pm PDT #24102 of 30001

I didn't get around to the yardwork. Or pickling the cukes (though truth be told, I might in a bit.) Nor the manicure.

But that's because I turned this: [link] (I'd flaked off most of the loose paint long prior to today.) into this: [link] I've got to wait a few hours before I can put the shelves back in. I don't think I lost too many brain cells to fumes. And thank god I do my own nails so had a big jug of acetone to clean up the tiles where "the cloud" deposited paint.

Of course, I do this on the muggiest day in a while, so ventilating meant inviting in mugginess. But it is purty now.

....and maybe I should eat something today...


smonster - Sep 04, 2011 2:33:52 pm PDT #24103 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Wow, sarameg! That's amazing.


Sophia Brooks - Sep 04, 2011 2:44:09 pm PDT #24104 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

That is quite a transformation, sara! I also love how our purple and green bathroom has a pink sink. I think instead of trying to find the purple sink to match, you should get a blue or yellow toilet! Do you read Retro Renovation? Because if you don't she just did a a post on a HUGE tile store in New Jersey that has tile and fixtures going back to the 40's (it is family owned), and they might have your other soap dish.


Liese S. - Sep 04, 2011 2:45:33 pm PDT #24105 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

It looks gorgeous!


sarameg - Sep 04, 2011 2:48:41 pm PDT #24106 of 30001

I think instead of trying to find the purple sink to match, you should get a blue or yellow toilet!

I have a purple sink, original to the neighborhood! My neighbor gave it to me when he redid his bathroom this summer. I just haven't gotten it cleaned up and installed yet, so it is living in the front room: [link]

I'll check out the RR, I haven't been there in a while.