Honestly, you meet the most appalling sort of people....

Giles ,'Chosen'


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.


§ 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


Cashmere - May 20, 2011 1:37:58 pm PDT #9013 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Scrappy, that's what I was thinking. I totally need one.

My friend in China has said he's already there and The Rapture totally isn't happening.


§ ita § - May 20, 2011 1:40:23 pm PDT #9014 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My friend in China has said he's already there and The Rapture totally isn't happening.

Maybe China is full of infidels.