I gave her everything... jewels, beautiful dresses -- with beautiful girls in them.

Spike ,'Sleeper'


Natter 69: Practically names itself.  

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.


amych - Oct 17, 2011 1:48:06 pm PDT #1941 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Yeah, I'm petty, but they're stupid.

Also? They're remarkably easily hacked.


hippocampus - Oct 17, 2011 1:50:51 pm PDT #1942 of 30001
not your mom's socks.

I kind of love ita ! right now. But there is no point at which I didn't.

Ok, people. My workshop roommate has just - I can't even. Email venting that ... oi. I had such a different experience than she did. And I spent a lot of time trying to help her. And I need to stop helping her now. Because I am about two replies from becoming the target of her frustration.


amych - Oct 17, 2011 1:55:29 pm PDT #1943 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Sox, step away from the Other People's Drama. It'll just get you all stinky and gooey.


Cashmere - Oct 17, 2011 2:34:35 pm PDT #1944 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Sox, was that the workshop with my friend from Dallas?


DavidS - Oct 17, 2011 2:55:58 pm PDT #1945 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

That's disturbing, David. Is there an ongoing investigation?

I don't know, but I don't think so. They had the body. Certainly he would've been the prime suspect if they suspected anything. This happened back in May.

It's also weird because her daughter, who was a young adult, just graduated from college, had moved back in with her mother and this guy.

Gabby related some of his notions which included a hierarchy that had God at the top, man second, then two or three other categories (I don't know what. Llamas? Real Estate Agencies?), and then women somewhere down in the middle. Creepy.

The service was strange too because none of her family was there and it was mostly filled by people from his pentecostal church. (She was an Hispanic-American Catholic, so not her church.)

But surely an autopsy would've turned up something like her being roofied or drugged. And you'd think she'd have the usually bruises and broken fingernails of somebody fighting for her life.

My guess is that he had a friend with him to help, and they forced her down under the water with a large cushion so she would've be bruised.

It's very disturbing. I am certain in my bones that her death wasn't an accident.


hippocampus - Oct 17, 2011 2:57:09 pm PDT #1946 of 30001
not your mom's socks.

Sox, was that the workshop with my friend from Dallas?

He went last year - and yes.

Sox, step away from the Other People's Drama. It'll just get you all stinky and gooey.

I am trying. This is a heinous mess.

ETA - Cashmere's friend from Dallas is made of awesome, btw.


DavidS - Oct 17, 2011 2:58:15 pm PDT #1947 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Here's her obit.

That's a really old picture from the 80s.

His church was affiliated as part of the Assemblies of God megachurch.


smonster - Oct 17, 2011 3:07:01 pm PDT #1948 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Totally creepy, David!


shrift - Oct 17, 2011 3:20:48 pm PDT #1949 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

This morning Perkins snorkeled while I sunbathed and read, and then we went to a rum tasting and had mahi mahi banh mi for lunch. Autocorrect wanted that to be banjos.


Ginger - Oct 17, 2011 3:20:57 pm PDT #1950 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

My BFF's brother somehow wandered from a middle-class Presbyterian upbringing and a degree from Vanderbilt to becoming an Assemblies of God minister. There's a lot of crazy there. He finally left the Assemblies of God when he was told to preach against Smurfs.