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'Serenity'


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.


Kat - Sep 28, 2011 6:34:46 pm PDT #29090 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Are there books more depressing than The Road ? Like, ever?

Oh god yes! Those aspirational books where the heroine has a lovely house in the Back Bay and a cabin in Stowe, with her lovely children on their way to Phillips Exeter or Andover and their big trust funds? Those are WAY more depressing because they force me to realize I'm 40 and I'll never own a house.


Kat - Sep 28, 2011 6:35:53 pm PDT #29091 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Are there books more depressing than The Road ? Like, ever?

Or you know, EVERY Martha Stewart book ever published which inevitably remind me why I can't have nice things.


Amy - Sep 28, 2011 6:39:09 pm PDT #29092 of 30001
Because books.

Those are WAY more depressing because they force me to realize I'm 40 and I'll never own a house.

Oh god, I feel the same way. And it kills me inside.

I always think we could move to ... South Dakota? Maybe we could afford a house there? And then I cry.


Kat - Sep 28, 2011 6:39:15 pm PDT #29093 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

going for a threepeat of random....

has anyone watched The Pioneer Woman tv show yet?


Connie Neil - Sep 28, 2011 6:39:19 pm PDT #29094 of 30001
brillig

I'm with Kat.


Kat - Sep 28, 2011 6:39:49 pm PDT #29095 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I always think we could move to ... South Dakota? Maybe we could afford a house there? And then I cry.

Or Cleveland or Detroit! Unfortunately also no jobs...


Amy - Sep 28, 2011 6:40:15 pm PDT #29096 of 30001
Because books.

I did, Kat. She seemed more comfortable in the second episode I saw than the very first, and I like the format. I think she needs a little more time to really relax into it.

She and Marlboro Man are very sweet together, though.


Kat - Sep 28, 2011 6:42:49 pm PDT #29097 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

See... her life makes me more depressed than The Road too. She's like country Martha Stewart, but a former ballerina. I have the show on the DVR, but haven't watched yet.

bah. growl. grumble.

I'm unfit for humanity.

I also realized I can use John Mellencamp lyrics to teach allegory, so that was sort of fun!


Kat - Sep 28, 2011 6:45:22 pm PDT #29098 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Holy SHIT! John Mellencamp is 60! I thought he was much younger than that. Like maybe 15 years older than I am. Which he sort of is, +/- 5 years.

SHIT. I'm getting old.


DavidS - Sep 28, 2011 6:45:30 pm PDT #29099 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Sorry, Ginger!