Hey, remember the noisy, entitled neighbor I griped about back at the start of the year? Yesterday I had an interview with an FBI agent doing a background check on her for a security clearance.
mwah-ha-ha!
I'm fairly certain I said no interruptions.
Buffy ,'Potential'
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 10, 2012 11:20:32 am PDT #17738 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Sheryl - Aug 10, 2012 11:23:57 am PDT #17739 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
My folks are here for the weekend. (I got to go home early today. Whee.) Don't know what we're going to do with them, sight-seeingwise. (It'd be nice if we could revisit a museum we've been to before, since there are new exhibits all the time, but noooo.)
JZ - Aug 10, 2012 11:34:39 am PDT #17740 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 am completely sad about David Rakoff, and hating on cancer quite a bit right now. I mean, more than usual, which is considerable already.
msbelle, if you worked near me I would take you to all the lunches all the time.
Also, random note:
Dear My Boss,
I know I'm an editor and skilled at picking up typos. However, that skill is entirely language-specific. I don't do number typos. And I would really prefer that when I say, "I'm sorry, but I really can't tell just from looking whether the listed left atrial heart mass of a non-PA-banded 4-week-old lamb should be 17 or 1.7 grams, so either you or the actual lab tech should be proofing the tables," you not get huffy and snap at me like I'm just trying to get out of number-proofing on account of sheer laziness. I'm trying to get out of it on account of not knowing what the fuck I'm doing and not wanting to screw it up.
Also, please note that none of those numbers have changed since the very first draft four months ago, and you, the actual lamb heart dissector and weigher, read and proofed and edited it yourself over and over and never noticed. Ye gods and little fishhooks, dude!
Not much love at all right now,
Me
Tom Scola - Aug 10, 2012 1:05:03 pm PDT #17741 of 30001
hwæt
Baby rhino: [link]
le nubian - Aug 10, 2012 2:12:42 pm PDT #17742 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
JZ,
I agree. I'm actually a little down about Rakoff. I didn't really know him at all, but I just loved his writing. Ah well. Ob-la-di and all that.
Lee - Aug 10, 2012 2:16:08 pm PDT #17743 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Video of the Synchronized Swiveling competition from yesterday
(will probably self destruct soon) Gone now
Allyson - Aug 10, 2012 2:19:52 pm PDT #17744 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'm saddened by Rakoff, too.
Adam Yauch's will was released, and there's been a lot of speculation about his entire estate being worth "only" 6.4 million.
Do I need to recalibrate? That seems like such a huge sum of money to me. Are people desensitized by the crazy epic sums we keep hearing about from billionaires in the news all the time?
-t - Aug 10, 2012 2:50:48 pm PDT #17745 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The Synchronized Swiveling is awesome.
I am appalled that people are commenting on the size of anyone's estate. That's just so nobody's business.
Tom Scola - Aug 10, 2012 2:56:50 pm PDT #17746 of 30001
hwæt
That seems like such a huge sum of money to me.
Compared to, say, how much Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons are worth? It’s not exactly fair.
§ ita § - Aug 10, 2012 2:59:43 pm PDT #17747 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It’s not exactly fair.
Fair? What was he spending it on, and what was he doing for income? How could we possibly know what is fair?