I should have said "health food" -- I wasn't actually serious, what with the drenching in butter and covering in cheese.....
I'll be fine. I'll be your bounty, Jubal Early. And I'll just fade away.
River ,'Objects In Space'
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.
Jesse - May 16, 2011 7:47:20 am PDT #8461 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Tom Scola - May 16, 2011 7:53:09 am PDT #8462 of 30001
hwæt
DavidS, did you see that the Beeb is doing a Jean Shrimpton Biopic?
Kathy A - May 16, 2011 7:57:50 am PDT #8463 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
WOot! I just had the second person in a week tell me that they didn't recognize me from behind! And the first one was the woman who sits kitty-corner from me and sees me every day.
msbelle - May 16, 2011 8:06:58 am PDT #8464 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am sans boss all week in the office. I already feel overwhelmed with not knowing what to do next. I have done some stuff, but do not want to have to call customers and schedule work. Stupid lady who cancelled this morning, she ruined my schedule for this week.
DavidS - May 16, 2011 8:09:35 am PDT #8465 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DavidS, did you see that the Beeb is doing a Jean Shrimpton Biopic?
Cool! Though I pity the woman that has to portray one of the most beautiful women of the decade.
Sort of like when Jennifer Love Hewitt portrayed Audrey Hepburn, or Sherilyn Fenn did Elizabeth Taylor. You're just going to suffer by comparison.
erikaj - May 16, 2011 8:19:39 am PDT #8466 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Besides I think JLH looks like a gerbil. But I don't suppose that's the suffering you meant...but she's just another one of those actresses that makes me think "Who decided she was pretty? Nobody asked me."
Fiona - May 16, 2011 8:32:49 am PDT #8467 of 30001
Though I pity the woman that has to portray one of the most beautiful women of the decade.
Actually, Karen Gillan can probably pull it off:
(ETA: she's already been cast).
DavidS - May 16, 2011 8:46:31 am PDT #8468 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Actually, Karen Gillan can probably pull it off:
She's pretty, no doubt, but she's not Jean Shrimpton pretty.
"The Shrimp" is a legend even today amongst high fashion and model mavens for the perfection of her features. Photographers talk about her the same way cinematographers talked about Garbo - no bad angles.
tommyrot - May 16, 2011 8:56:35 am PDT #8469 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
An interview with Dan Savage: [link]
I liked this bit:
Q: You and I had a fun radio debate a year ago about sex addiction. We disagreed on whether sex addiction is real (I think it is, you don’t), but we both agreed that we as a culture have way too much shame around sex. In one sentence, why are we so fucked up about sex?
A: Because Australia got the convicts, Canada got the French, and we got the Puritans.
tommyrot - May 16, 2011 9:16:26 am PDT #8470 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Has this been posted?
Go The F**k to Sleep, A Children’s Bedtime Story
Go the F**k to Sleep by Adam Mansbach, with illustrations by Ricardo Cortés. is a children’s book with a simple, enduring message: sometimes Mommy and Daddy want their little buckets of joy to just go the f**k to sleep already. Despite not being available until June 14, the book is number two on the Amazon bestseller list thanks to buzz generated by the unauthorized circulation of a pre-release PDF copy.
Go the Fuck to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach’s verses perfectly capture the familiar–and unspoken–tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. In the process, they open up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations, and laugh at their absurdity.