Go Pete! That's a very good husband you have.
He's awesome. And I promise to take very good care of Jilli here.
The bad bit in it is that I get less time with Pete. But I am invading his home to make up for it next weekend.
Faith: A kid. Angel's got a kid. Wesley: Connor. Faith: A teenage kid born last year. Wesley: I told you, he grew up in a hell dimension. Faith: Right. And what, Cordelia spent her last summer as… Wesley: A divine being. Faith: Uh-huh. Can I just ask--What the hell are you people doing?
'Why We Fight'
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.
Cass - Mar 25, 2011 10:06:08 pm PDT #383 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
billytea - Mar 26, 2011 12:17:04 am PDT #384 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.
Re Scott Adams, I've been scornful of his opinions for many a year, since he announced that he sometimes makes predictions that have a way of coming true, and one of his predictions is that the theory of evolution will be overturned sometime in the 21st century.
This quote is of course plumbing far greater depths of what I would like to call the Gibson-Sheen Abyss.
sarameg - Mar 26, 2011 3:55:40 am PDT #385 of 30001
Well, I managed to stay in bed until 7:30. But still up at 6. Loki playing dive bomber under the covers, MK poking me in the face and Devi sharpening her claws on the sheets didn't help...
Jesse - Mar 26, 2011 4:42:11 am PDT #386 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just read Wil Wheaton's post about the Stand By Me reunion, and aw. [link]
brenda m - Mar 26, 2011 4:59:46 am PDT #387 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Portland keeps saying it is setting up a 311 system but it still hasn't materialized.
Oh good, I was wondering, since we have that here too. (Good to understand that I was right about what it's for, not good that you don't have it yet.)
Hil or someone, what makes those lemon cakes Game of Thronesy? They do look delish.
Fay linked to that Scott Adams thing yesterday. Disgusting, and I don't see any sign that it's a joke. And now the evolution stuff? Where does this even come from? I would not have expected that.
SuziQ - Mar 26, 2011 5:02:39 am PDT #388 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I wonder if we have a 311 system here. I looked up the non-emergency number when I freaked over CJ being missing. They were extremely helpful and the police showed up to take the report within an hour. As much as it felt like an emergency to me, I didn't want to tie up the 911 operators over the issue.
Tom Scola - Mar 26, 2011 5:04:40 am PDT #389 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
We talked about River in the interview, of course, and I think Richard put it best when he said that there is this monster in Hollywood that everyone knows about. It lurks just out of view, and occasionally it reaches up and snatches someone … and it got River.
Very apt, and very sad.
Theodosia - Mar 26, 2011 5:09:00 am PDT #390 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"
Wheaton grewed up good, didn't he? That is so worth reading.
And speaking of people we'll miss, Diana Wynne Jones died after a long illness yesterday, which I have to say guts me about 1000% worse than Liz T.
§ ita § - Mar 26, 2011 5:12:43 am PDT #391 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That's a really touching piece by Wil.
Theodosia - Mar 26, 2011 5:15:15 am PDT #392 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"
Somerville has a 311 number, and it's really useful, if only because you'll get directed to the right city department that CAN deal with a problem.
Tho' there was the time I saw an injured goose in Cambridge, and when I tried to call their Animal Control department, the off-hours recording said to call 911 for animal emergencies, which I did apologetically. I have to say the 911 operator didn't think I was out of line. The goose was right by the side of a busy road and could have provoked an accident, after all, and I know my brothers-the-cops are as worried about hurt animals as anyone.