You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends.

Spike ,'Sleeper'


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.


DawnK - May 20, 2011 12:49:52 pm PDT #9003 of 30001
giraffe mode

Please to not be laughing at my harvest gold wall oven

Bev, we have been living with my MIL for 4 years, and that is her exact oven except that her's is coppertone. It just last week started acting up. It's easily 35+ years old. The matching cooktop has one non-working burner but other than that works fine.


Polter-Cow - May 20, 2011 12:51:04 pm PDT #9004 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Does anyone else have an apocalypse music playlist?

I do not have one, but if I did, this would be on it, obvs.


§ ita § - May 20, 2011 12:56:53 pm PDT #9005 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Um, hello, one true apocalypse song is 1999, end of story.


Kathy A - May 20, 2011 12:56:59 pm PDT #9006 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I don't either (and I can't access YouTube here at work), but REM's "It's the End of the World As We Know It" is a given, isn't it?

Thanks for the muffin recipe!! I sent it onto my sister, who is famous for her excellent Toll House cookies. And then I stuck around that website and found a recipe for crustless mini quiches that I simply must make! It'll make for a nice change for breakfast from my usual greek yogurt.


Cashmere - May 20, 2011 1:23:21 pm PDT #9007 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Awesome? Or Awful?


aurelia - May 20, 2011 1:25:46 pm PDT #9008 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Until The End Of The World - U2
The End Of The World - The Cure
It's The End Of The World As We Know It - REM
The End Of The World - Laurie Anderson
Until The End Of The World - Julee Cruise
Yawny At The Apocalypse - Andrew Bird
Everything's Fine - Surfing Brides
(I'll Love You) Till The End Of The World - Nick Cave
Last Night On Earth - U2
Last Man In Space - Violet Sedan Chair
The Earth Died Screaming - Tom Waits


DebetEsse - May 20, 2011 1:31:44 pm PDT #9009 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Sophia, what I would do, which may or may not be helpful, would be to assign each of the rankings a color (ideally along a spectrum, like 1=blue, 2=green, 3=yellow, 4=orange 5=red....only with twice as many, and then do a bar graph where you have a column for each item with the colors it got in the survey (kind of like [link] but each bar would be the same height.) That way, you have all the data on display, but you can look and get a quick sense of the popularity of each option by its color-spread.

Cash, I think it would really depend on the wearer's hairstyle.


Scrappy - May 20, 2011 1:32:41 pm PDT #9010 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

For a derby chick? Awesome.


Hil R. - May 20, 2011 1:34:15 pm PDT #9011 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Sophia, I'm not sure if there's one standard way of analyzing that kind of data. I've taught courses that had a few weeks focused on different methods of ranking a list of things from that sort of survey, and there's no one best method -- every method has advantages and disadvantages.


DavidS - May 20, 2011 1:36:09 pm PDT #9012 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

All Gone, All Gone - Palace Songs
The World is Gone - Peter Thomas Sound Orch. (this one is great because there's a raving maniac yelling the title)
End of the World - Herman's Hermits
My World's Ending - Tallulah Gosh
White Trash Apocalypse - Pleasant Gehman (a spoken word piece)
Sign of Judgement - Marianne Faithful
Rapture - Blondie
Goodbye Cruel World - Shakespear's Sister