That's so cool, Maria. Thanks.
Very convincing. Makes me completely want to put myself under government control. Please take me to where you can make me unconscious and naked.
Riley ,'Help'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
erikaj - Jan 29, 2012 3:32:08 pm PST #6492 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Cass - Jan 29, 2012 4:23:20 pm PST #6493 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I am delurking in here to share that my mom LOVED Ayn Rand because of the ill-fated romances. Like, she had no idea they were political at all.
Fountainhead was recommended to me for the architecture and while I saw the political, it wasn't why I was happily reading the book and still have fond thoughts of it though not of the author herself. But I don't rec it to others because I know I went in with specific blinders.
Fred Pete - Jan 30, 2012 5:37:24 am PST #6494 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
I've read and enjoyed The Count of Monte Cristo. But there are two versions.
Dumas wrote one of those thousand-page 19th-century novels of the type that I love to get lost in. But the unabridged version had a lot of content that wouldn't pass muster in the English-speaking countries of the era. So the publisher severely abridged the book for UK and US audiences. For example, the thinly veiled lesbian relationship was cut out.
So if someone says they like CoMC, I ask which one.
Connie Neil - Jan 30, 2012 5:55:16 am PST #6495 of 30001
brillig
I love the unabridged version. The long conversations about politics, the long descriptions of traveling in Italy, the long . . .
Well, yeah, long, but so good.
§ ita § - Jan 30, 2012 6:31:32 am PST #6496 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Why is liking it a lot supposed to be a red flag, again?
sj - Jan 30, 2012 7:08:23 am PST #6497 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Are we still doing onerous task day? So far today I have had bloodwork done and had my car inspected. But I still have to call and interview home inspectors in case our bid goes through.
DavidS - Jan 30, 2012 7:37:10 am PST #6498 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Are we still doing onerous task day?
If need be!
Strix - Jan 30, 2012 7:45:33 am PST #6499 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
My onerous task will be working; I don't wanna. But...suck it up, bitca! Right?!
So: clean off desk and file, Swiffer office floor, do blog and video planning for February, and do personal and business finanacials stuff today.
sj - Jan 30, 2012 7:53:13 am PST #6500 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Yes, if we get the house I am going to have a huge list of onerous tasks.
Also, why am I checking my e-mail obsessively when I know the offer isn't even being presented until 3?
meara - Jan 30, 2012 7:57:19 am PST #6501 of 30001
Yeah, I was expecting my teleconference that started at 9AM to last for two hours as planned, and figured I would half listen, and half get shit done (somehow that usually works pretty well for me, if I'm doing shit like expense reports, that doesn't take a whole brain).
But it only lasted 45 minutes, and now I have to buckle down and I dont' WANNA.