Good luck. Try not to kill people. Hands! Hands!

Willow ,'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.


Liese S. - May 29, 2012 8:06:31 am PDT #7385 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Cows crash party, help themselves to beer

Ha. We had a little rural bovine adventure the other day ourselves. There was a big (okay, for us, maybe six cars) traffic jam, and when we could see, we realized it was because there were three cowboys on horses with their dogs trying to round up cattle and move them across the highway. Most of them went fine, but there was one recalcitrant calf who clearly hadn't done this before and was not very happy about it. It was super cute. We were all "Don't see that every day...unless you're us," about it.


Consuela - May 29, 2012 8:06:53 am PDT #7386 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Though apropos of nothing, I must say, apparently Calvin Klein dresses are pretty darn close to my ideal fit.

That's been my experience, too: I have three CK dresses, and they fit me very well.


Consuela - May 29, 2012 8:08:48 am PDT #7387 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Hmm. Anyone else having trouble getting to Google?


tommyrot - May 29, 2012 8:11:11 am PDT #7388 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Google's fine for me.


flea - May 29, 2012 8:11:34 am PDT #7389 of 30001
information libertarian

I went shopping and scored $20 dress pants at Ann Taylor that fit really nicely in my first ten minutes. And then spent the next 2 hours in consumer despair. Nordstrom Rack was the worst. Who WEARS those drapey things, and why don't they have any PANTS?

Unfortunately the dress pants don't go with either of my blazers, but still! $20!


tommyrot - May 29, 2012 8:14:49 am PDT #7390 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Even though I'm not religious, I love this photo from my parents' wedding:

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Also, note how huge my dad's hands are--way bigger than mine, and with much thicker fingers too.


Atropa - May 29, 2012 8:20:46 am PDT #7391 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Nordstrom Rack was the worst. Who WEARS those drapey things, and why don't they have any PANTS?

Aaaaaaaalllll the faux-hemian hipsters of Seattle, and they wear leggings instead. I personally know maybe three people that the drapey things look good on, everyone else looks like the return rack at a thrift store decided to go for a walk.


Kat - May 29, 2012 8:27:54 am PDT #7392 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I theoretically like drapey and leggings! Comfortable and loungey.

I don't look good in it. I'm more of a wrap dress sort of person.


tommyrot - May 29, 2012 8:29:38 am PDT #7393 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

This is cool if you like this sort of thing:

Pictures: World War II "Time Capsule" Fighter Found in Sahara

Recently discovered in Egypt by an oil-exploration team, a World War II fighter plane called "the aviation equivalent of Tutankhamun's tomb" bears the scars of 70 years in the Sahara desert—but is nevertheless considered to be in "time capsule" condition.

"I've never seen anything like it," said Ian Thirsk, head of collections at the Royal Air Force (RAF) Museum in London. The Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk is "the best preserved example of a Second World War aircraft I've seen for many, many years."

The plane's pilot is thought to have been Flt. Sgt. Dennis Copping, though no trace of his body has been found at the crash site.

Some cool pictures.


Atropa - May 29, 2012 8:30:12 am PDT #7394 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I also theoretically like drapey and leggings on other people (it looks horrible on me), but most of the people I run into who wear that are also so, so over everything, darling, and full of ironic ennui. And also usually are into the nu-goth thing, which fills my ElderGoth heart with get off my cemetery lawn, dammit! Shoo! rage.