How is the store a fake if you actually got your necklace?
Am I supposed to be changing my clothes a lot? Is that the helpful thing to do?
Anya ,'Storyteller'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
Scrappy - Jul 13, 2012 8:36:45 pm PDT #13801 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2012 8:53:33 pm PDT #13802 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There are certain handmade rules you need to follow to qualify for etsy, and hers were apparently manufactured with too much technology. Which leads me think--maybe that necklace was for sale somewhere else. I might google image search tomorrow.
meara - Jul 13, 2012 9:08:59 pm PDT #13803 of 30001
Huh. Roomie and I just heard what we're wondering might have been a gunshot. Or possibly fireworks. Can't decide. Maybe a car backfiring. Seemed odd.
Had a great time dancing. Yay, dancing. Yay randomly good moods. Yay flirting with girls.
I find it kinda creepy but also fascinating, the ebook tracking. I'd love to see it for some books I enjoyed vs books I didn't finish. Though I'm always bored by the 'other people highlighted' part, because I never highlight unless it's something I'm studying in school.
aurelia - Jul 13, 2012 9:14:42 pm PDT #13804 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Gunfire or Fireworks? has been a common game around here this summer.
FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S TRUE. And I love the poster for the Loop.
Yep. The Wicker Park one is pretty funny, too.
Cass - Jul 13, 2012 9:30:10 pm PDT #13805 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.
Gunfire or Fireworks? has been a common game around here this summer.
I played a lot of Earthquake or Truck in San Diego. Mostly I waited to see if LAistas immediately posted. Then I discovered the USGS site.
meara - Jul 13, 2012 9:41:26 pm PDT #13806 of 30001
Yeah, I'm wondering how I'll find out--I guess if the neighborhood blog has a dramatic story in the morning, I'll know. They let anyone post, if they want, and last week there was someone all "what was that big bang and the police and stuff at 5AM at 24th and Judkins?!?" and it turned out that was the po-po raiding the anarchists and the big bang was busting down the front door. Drama!!
bon bon - Jul 13, 2012 10:15:55 pm PDT #13807 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Twitter searches are also good for aggregating local stuff.
Calli - Jul 14, 2012 3:10:03 am PDT #13808 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm big on buying and storing books for vacation. So I have about 30 books I've bought this year where I downloaded them read a page or two to make sure they came through properly, and then set them aside. I guess I'm misleading the monitors--I'm not really that picky, honest!
Kat - Jul 14, 2012 4:02:19 am PDT #13809 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
le nubian and Amy, I think Gone Girl starts really slowly. She plants many clues and redundantly repeats them. Then midway through, she shifts the story in a pretty dramatic way that casts a new light on everything in the first half, which is cool and more compelling, frankly.
But both characters are patently unlikeable and I'm just not that interested in what happens to them now that I have the general gist of what happened to them. And then when I spoiled myself for the ending, it was fucked enough that I felt "enh.now I don't have to read to find out." So definitely read it if you aren't planning on spoil yourself and you'll want to know how to get to the end.
Amy, I think I ultimately like Post Apocalpytic better too. Have you read Starters? The writer lives in my neighborhood, I think. It was... okay. But part of that string of YA post apocalyptic that is the new vampire. My issue is that she is on a dystopian panel at Comic-Con and... she's just not writing dystopia!
Kat - Jul 14, 2012 4:07:19 am PDT #13810 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Awesome infographic of good storytelling by Pixar: [link] I should figure out how to posterize it and put it in my classroom.