Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.

'Ariel'


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.


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:

[link]

(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.


DavidS - May 16, 2011 9:22:27 am PDT #8471 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Wow, the woman who gave her 8 y.o. daughter botox injections to compete in kiddie beauty pageants lost custody of her daughter.


Matt the Bruins fan - May 16, 2011 9:24:33 am PDT #8472 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I don't think Sherilyn Fenn gave up that much ground in comparison to Elizabeth Taylor looks-wise. In acting talent, maybe, and choice of projects definitely.


erikaj - May 16, 2011 9:26:23 am PDT #8473 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

I read about it someplace...Facebook? I liked the Savage interview too...I'm a big Savage fan. I gave him a shoutout this morning in something I wrote actually. I wrote him a letter once, but decided not to send it due to the eleven million Buffistas who'd send me the link to myself all "You and this chick should totally go bowling," But sometimes I think he'd be a good friend to have, because you could tell him anything, right?


DavidS - May 16, 2011 9:27:05 am PDT #8474 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Sherilyn's gorgeous but nobody ever said she was the most beautiful woman in the world for ten years running.