Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!

Xander ,'Lessons'


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.


Sophia Brooks - Nov 25, 2011 4:04:34 pm PST #8525 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I am watching this Investigate Discovery show called "Deadly Women" and they do a lot of reenactments. I think this is wear all the normal looking actors are working!


amych - Nov 25, 2011 4:20:06 pm PST #8526 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Saw the Muppets.

TEARS WERE JERKED.

In all the good happy ways.


Consuela - Nov 25, 2011 4:22:09 pm PST #8527 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Aww, thanks, JZ! I'm gonna try to get my friend E to go with me this weekend, but if she's not game, I will totally call on you. I need my Muppets.

I have a vivid memory of the day I heard Jim Henson died. Such a fucking waste: he had another 20 or 30 years of creativity in him, if he'd gotten to the hospital sooner.


Kat - Nov 25, 2011 4:27:45 pm PST #8528 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I have leftovers! Mmm. Thank you, Kat and K! Thanks, Polgara.

So very welcome. If you can't come to Thanksgiving, it's a pleasure to be able to get Thanksgiving to you.

We went to watch the Ducks game today for Katie's birthday. The Ducks scored two goals in the first 2 minutes and then led by 2 until the third period where they completely fucking imploded. Grace liked the dancing she got to do. Noah was entranced. I was like, "It'll be over before 4:00 PM! We'll be home for dinner!" So it was all good, even the Blackhawks killed 'em.

I really want to see the Muppet movie, but I dunno if Noah will tolerate it.


Jesse - Nov 25, 2011 4:42:34 pm PST #8529 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh crap. I didn't do a damn thing today, and now I remember I should have! Oh well. I do still have time tomorrow AND Sunday.


§ ita § - Nov 25, 2011 5:08:43 pm PST #8530 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have got to say, I'm not entirely the lost cause I think I am. Or, maybe it's just that I wasn't the lost cause then that I think I am now. But I was in a complicated place wrt to my Geico reimbursement cheque, involving the DMV and banks that are out of business, and a company that wouldn't take Geico's call because they're not allowed to speak on a line that might be recorded.

But I kept knuckling down on what went into my to-do list, with strict deadlines, and I only missed one by thirty minutes. And even then, it was one where I'd set the deadline way early.

As part of the research I needed to do, I went and grabbed the file folder labelled 2003 off my shelf, and it had all the info I needed for the letter I had to write. Score! I had no idea I still had that info around, or that 2003 was where all the documentation was.

However, I have a mega-shitload more research to do about thousands more dollars and defunct accounts. But I've given myself a week on that, not a day.

Kat, thanks again. It was a pleasure to let my grocery shopping slide until tomorrow as I ate your food for dinner--as long as I do my grocery planning and list making today, I'll still be honest. It was a relaxing cap to a way overworked day.

I have a vivid memory of the day I heard Jim Henson died.

Oh god, me too. It was during a really surreal week, one that was remarkably cool, and we couldn't believe that this sadness was actually happening.


JZ - Nov 25, 2011 5:26:33 pm PST #8531 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I have a vivid memory of the day I heard Jim Henson died.

In a car with a fellow creative writing major and a Spy magazine intern (I still remember exactly which one of the Spy 100 that year was his work), on the way to Rhinebeck to see Day 2 of the Spike & Mike Twisted Animation (or whatever the name of its predecessor was) Festival. Listening to NPR, naturally; and all three of us shocked and heartsick and whispering, "No. What? Did you hear that? Did they just say that? Did they? He... no. NO."


Amy - Nov 25, 2011 5:32:58 pm PST #8532 of 30001
Because books.

amyth and smonster made me happy. And I get to see the movie tomorrow, too! I might actually get out the DVDs tonight.

I have a vivid memory of the day I heard Jim Henson died.

I don't, oddly. But I do remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when Jerry Garcia died. I also clearly remember waking up at my friend's house after a sleepover on the day John Lennon died, and her older brother was a wreck.


Allyson - Nov 25, 2011 5:56:48 pm PST #8533 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I don't have a vivid memory of that or the shuttle explosion. I have a vivid memory of the day River Phoenix died, oddly.


Amy - Nov 25, 2011 5:59:40 pm PST #8534 of 30001
Because books.

I remember the shuttle and the day Reagan was shot, too. I was home sick both days, which was weird.

Good work on the book proposal, Allyson.