Ah, yes, of course. The gypsies, they gave you your soul. The gypsies are filthy people. Ptui! We shall speak of them no more.

Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'


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.


brenda m - Jul 27, 2012 12:36:31 pm PDT #15736 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Of course he did.

I think this is a public photo on Facebook -- a local cat rescue group is doing a "15 Shades of Gray" event where, if you adopt a gray kitty, you get a t-shirt that says "I'm into S&N" (spay and neuter). [link]

One of the groups I work with has cat adoption t-shirts with a cartoon of a cat behind bars and the caption Free Pussy


Steph L. - Jul 27, 2012 12:37:44 pm PDT #15737 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

we're getting the kind of storms (semis blown over on the interstate, that sort of thing)

I just heard about the semis on the news (channel 5), but Northside is sunny now -- BRIGHT sun. Weird. I see another storm on the radar back in Indiana, and I really need to get a shower, but I can't tell when that storm in Indiana is going to get here.


flea - Jul 27, 2012 12:40:56 pm PDT #15738 of 30001
information libertarian

I too am watching channel 5. Which makes me feel like an enormous dork, actually.


Jesse - Jul 27, 2012 12:57:08 pm PDT #15739 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Heads up to the east coast - we're getting the kind of storms (semis blown over on the interstate, that sort of thing) that were the precursors to your line of derechos earlier in the summer.

That sounds terrible, but....since when are derechos a thing??? I think the staff at NOAA or whatever maybe doesn't have enough to do, which is why they keep naming weather patterns.


flea - Jul 27, 2012 12:58:44 pm PDT #15740 of 30001
information libertarian

"The word was first used in the American Meteorological Journal in 1888 by Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs in a paper describing the phenomenon and based on a significant derecho event that crossed Iowa on 31 July 1877."

Nyah nyah.


msbelle - Jul 27, 2012 12:59:19 pm PDT #15741 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

hatahs gonna hate.


flea - Jul 27, 2012 1:03:23 pm PDT #15742 of 30001
information libertarian

Dayton, OH has been hit by 3 derechos in the last month; if today is one, that's four. (Usually west-central Ohio gets one a year.)


Amy - Jul 27, 2012 1:11:00 pm PDT #15743 of 30001
Because books.

I had never heard of it before yesterday either. Is it that they cause more wind damage or something? Because we had branches down before it even started raining last night.


Kat - Jul 27, 2012 1:13:34 pm PDT #15744 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Oh man. Watching the livestream of the Olympics from one of Sue's links.

Okay. First of all... surprised that Iran had a female flag bearer who was not scarved.

I'm also weirded out that the big celebration part had so much pop culture music, like seeing Johnny Rotten singing was just odd. Then they played the BeeGees on the march in after playing Pet Shop Boys and Adele. Odd.


Sophia Brooks - Jul 27, 2012 1:15:57 pm PDT #15745 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I have not heard of a dera-whatever until Jesse's Facebook status this morning.

I am watching Poiret and there is a very young Damien Lewis.