Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.

'Underneath'


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.


flea - Sep 11, 2011 5:18:21 am PDT #25379 of 30001
information libertarian

I am bondo-ing huge cracks in the porch. This is even less fun because I keep getting interrupted by bickering children.

mr. flea left for Ohio at 8am. He starts work tomorrow.


§ ita § - Sep 11, 2011 5:25:13 am PDT #25380 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

ok Ita, that's good to know.

I just wanted to make sure you were up to date. Also, mindnumbingly bored.

Me, not you, to be clear.

If you need to know what mackle means, don't hesitate to ask.

I have just gotten halfway through of a pile of writing on Jamaican folk magic. Seems everyone finished writing about it decades ago. That's sort of depressing. I'd love to know more about current beliefs and practitioners.


Hil R. - Sep 11, 2011 5:36:25 am PDT #25381 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I'm reading about the history of deaf education. In the early 1800s, there was a guy in Philadelphia who read some books about how a school in France was educating deaf kids, so he went and found some deaf kids playing on the street and convinced them to come to his house so that he could try to educate them and test out what he'd just learned. There are so many ways that wouldn't fly today. (This guy later became the principal of the first formal school for the deaf in Philadelphia, and he was accused of molesting some teenage girls there.)


le nubian - Sep 11, 2011 5:44:49 am PDT #25382 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

So, I have decided that I cannot read my rss feeds today, nor can I read twitter. I have decided to do some online shopping and watch the guild instead.


Sue - Sep 11, 2011 5:49:25 am PDT #25383 of 30001
hip deep in pie

I've got HGTV on my TV, LeNubian. It seems to be a safe choice.


le nubian - Sep 11, 2011 5:55:35 am PDT #25384 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

okay, thank you. I have "The Wire", but I think I would like something a bit more upbeat.


Zenkitty - Sep 11, 2011 6:01:00 am PDT #25385 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I was determined not to watch any 9/11 memorials today. I don't want to be bawling my eyes out all day. Then my sister called me crying and asked me to turn on CNN where Paul Simon was playing and singing Sound of Silence, and I can't say no, now can I? So now I'm all teary.

And my niece decided today was the day to go driving around DC in a white van with expired plates, completely unaware of the heightened security. ISTG.


Burrell - Sep 11, 2011 6:01:44 am PDT #25386 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Turns out my day is going to be almost entirely devoted to children's birthday parties. 3 of them (although I am only chaperoning for 2). My yesterday? Devoted to children's soccer games, plus laundry and grocery shopping.

No Klondike bars ftr, but DH had to go out later and correct my failure to purchase ice cream.

Hugs and warm thoughts to everyone today.


Sue - Sep 11, 2011 6:02:18 am PDT #25387 of 30001
hip deep in pie

My HGTV is Canadian, so programming may vary.


Hil R. - Sep 11, 2011 6:05:46 am PDT #25388 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

TCM is showing New York movies all day. Or, at least, until 8. Then they're showing Casablanca and a bunch of war movies. But during the day, there's Life Begins for Andy Hardy, Pride of the Yankees, 42nd Street, Guys and Dolls, The Clock, Annie Hall, and On the Town. I probably would have replaced one of the musicals with Breakfast at Tiffany's, but still, this is a tribute I like.