You two carried me through that war. Now I need you to carry me just a little bit further. If you can.

Tracy ,'The Message'


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.


aurelia - May 24, 2011 9:18:56 am PDT #9458 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I'm about to have a rage blackout. [link]


Typo Boy - May 24, 2011 9:20:33 am PDT #9459 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I very kindly re-forwarded the original email with the attached files. Because I'm nice like that.

I hope you copied the appropriate people in.


Frankenbuddha - May 24, 2011 9:25:04 am PDT #9460 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I'm about to have a rage blackout.

Right there with you. What a douchnozzle.


erikaj - May 24, 2011 9:59:01 am PDT #9461 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

I've thought he was a jerk since he talked about "Jews wanting to help the underdog" in a tone I might use for projectile vomiting. Asshole.


Fred Pete - May 24, 2011 10:08:16 am PDT #9462 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.

I'm ashamed to live in the state that he's from.

Hell, I'm ashamed to be the same species that he's from.


erikaj - May 24, 2011 11:01:57 am PDT #9463 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

Don't worry about it. I'm from Arizona. The Grand Canyon of Shame State.


Sparky1 - May 24, 2011 11:17:12 am PDT #9464 of 30001
Librarian Warlord

Sox, what's the news about my cousin? Tell me!

I have a tentative interview tomorrow with channel 7 about Sassafras (and the evil calls). DH is in Switzerland so I have to do this one alone. So. Far. Out. Of. My. Comfort. Zone.

Also, Perkins: Penny and Mary H. say, "Hi!"


Amy - May 24, 2011 11:35:54 am PDT #9465 of 30001
Because books.

Argh. In Stupid Human Tricks news, Sara's bus has all year driven past the local Planned Parenthood, where at least twice a week abortion protesters are outside with signs (some of them graphic). Made for some hard questions to answer, but the bus routes are pretty concrete (or so I thought) and some of them are dictated by how old the borough is, and which streets the buses can actually get down safely.

They got a new bus driver a few weeks back. She's started taking different routes and arriving at the bus stop from three directions, depending on her mood, but whatever. She's there on time, more or less, and there are only three or so weeks left of school.

Today, parents are gathered at the stop for the afternoon pickup, and the bus doesn't show. Minutes go by, two moms are on their cells to the school, when down the street come the kids, the oldest only in third grade, and one of them in kindergarten.

The bus driver let them out a block away, on the wrong side of the street (SO THEY HAD TO CROSS ON THEIR OWN), with not one parent there.

Apparently parent phone calls about the protesters only made a difference *now*, with a fraction of the the year left, and the new bus driver jumped the gun, since not one of the families was informed about this yet. Not to mention that she picked them up at the regular stop this morning.

I've already called the school, and I'm still vibrating with rage.


brenda m - May 24, 2011 12:05:10 pm PDT #9466 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

That seriously sucks, Amy. WTH are they thinking?

In other news of OH CRAP, they are tracking a tornado across Oklahoma that I guess is getting ready to cross a freeway. It sounds like from the way they're talking about it that it wouldn't be obvious to someone driving on it that they were about to be in the shit. That is just so freaking scary.


Theresa - May 24, 2011 12:29:47 pm PDT #9467 of 30001
"What would it take to get your daughter to stop tweeting about this?"

The pics on the weather channel are some of the scariest live pics that I've seen. Living in the central US, that's a lot of scary. At least one is a really big tornado.

Please dissipate and don't come north.