I believe that's my hey. Hey!
Xander ,'Storyteller'
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.
Cashmere - Sep 26, 2011 7:02:08 am PDT #28332 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
JZ - Sep 26, 2011 7:08:25 am PDT #28333 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.
Closest relative to the elephant.
I cannot ever show that link to Matilda, because then she will NEVER STOP CRYING over the fact that she can't have a rock hyrax as a pet (actually, I probably shouldn't look at it again myself or I'll start blubbing a bit myself).
Five years ago this very minute the anesthesiologist was flooding me with numbing meds to stop the hideous neck spasm that had clutched me up at exactly the wrong moment (in midair, mid-transfer from hospital bed to OR bed) and Hec was babbling to me about New Orleans memories to distract me from everything about to happen on the other side of the drape. And about seven minutes from now, Matilda was out in the world for the very first time.
Hayden - Sep 26, 2011 7:09:57 am PDT #28334 of 30001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Happy birthday, Mathilda!
And thanks, Billytea and Liese!
Burrell - Sep 26, 2011 7:10:01 am PDT #28335 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Happy birthday Matilda!
Isaac loved being 5 so much that there were tears the night before he was to turn 6. I had to promise him he could still be 5 for as long as he wanted. I think I told you folks this story before? Right before he fell asleep I asked him how old he was going to be in the morning. "Six."
billytea - Sep 26, 2011 7:15:01 am PDT #28336 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I think I would like to be a Rock Hyrax (sumi's link).
Hyraxes are surprisingly nimble in the trees. They open the arboreal ep of David Attenborough's Life of Mammals.
erikaj - Sep 26, 2011 7:20:56 am PDT #28337 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
Allyson, Anthony Bourdain gets about eleven million user reviews complaining about excessive profanity every time he puts a book out. Which I think is funny because:
a. It's always funny when it's not you.
2.Anthony Bourdain is on TV and the interpipes ALL THE TIME via his travel show(that has a parental disclaimer, btw,) and yet there is always some hoople from a flyover state who knows the name is famous but doesn't know why and takes it upon herself to sniff something like "His constant profanity and drug references speak to a real failure of imagination."
Um, it's Bourdain. It's what he does. Well, that and trash the Food Network. Like Ringo's drums, they loom large in his legend.
Allyson - Sep 26, 2011 7:53:19 am PDT #28338 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
"His constant profanity and drug references speak to a real failure of imagination."
I think these are the same people who say, "sarcasm is the lowest form of humor."
Jesse - Sep 26, 2011 7:54:56 am PDT #28339 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think pretty much every post on the NPR pop culture blog has at least one comment "taking NPR to task" for covering pop culture.
sumi - Sep 26, 2011 8:01:37 am PDT #28340 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Amy - Sep 26, 2011 8:04:25 am PDT #28341 of 30001
Because books.
How ... kind of his agent to suggest that he consider being bi to "keep his options" open.
Can you imagine anyone saying that to a successful straight actor? And yet, if you're gay, I guess you're supposed to just be thankful to get roles?
People are so gross.