Wow, T.Rex comics made me go look up Mummy Brown.
Apparently, one of the all time great pigments used to be ground up mummies.
Heh! The Time Magazine article about it in 1964 is delightfully macabre.
Kaylee: So how many fell madly in love with you and wanted to take you away from all this? Inara: Just the one. I think I'm slipping.
'Serenity'
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.
DavidS - Oct 07, 2011 4:29:29 am PDT #712 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DavidS - Oct 07, 2011 4:50:31 am PDT #713 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Thomas Boswell has the perfect description of Tigers manager Jim Leyland: "Normally, he looks like he just found four dead bodies in the trunk of an Elmore Leonard character’s car and can’t bear to ask Dutch how they got there."
Cashmere - Oct 07, 2011 5:13:04 am PDT #714 of 30001
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Did anyone know it's Ada Lovelace Day? [link]
Jesse - Oct 07, 2011 5:20:59 am PDT #715 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So I was talking to my therapist last night about how I'm so stressed out at work, and she was like, "Your department is down two people right now? That's why." OH RIGHT. That IS why!
But I still don't feel like working today.
In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, I'll give a shout-out to Lise Meitner: [link]
Cashmere - Oct 07, 2011 5:22:32 am PDT #716 of 30001
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Between the Bloggess, Ada Lovelace Day and this [link] I suspect it's a very Buffista holiday.
JenP - Oct 07, 2011 5:23:03 am PDT #717 of 30001
Turns out I didn't know who Hugh Laurie was when I first started watching Spooks.
Jesse - Oct 07, 2011 5:36:03 am PDT #718 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yesterday at work, we were watching a thing with a bunch of short clips, and one of them was from Jeeves and Wooster maybe, and my coworker leans over and says, "Was that the guy who plays House?!?!?!?!?!?" It was funny. To me.
Cashmere - Oct 07, 2011 5:47:43 am PDT #719 of 30001
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I'm watching Sparky right now.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 07, 2011 5:54:05 am PDT #720 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Cashmere - Oct 07, 2011 5:54:28 am PDT #721 of 30001
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Anderson Cooper with a baby sloth=adorable.