She's terse. I can be terse. Once in flight school, I was laconic.

Wash ,'War Stories'


Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

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.


Burrell - Apr 05, 2013 3:00:49 pm PDT #17385 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Oh and Matilda too! Though I see enough pictures of her that I can comprehend she's getting older.

BTW, I am in total denial that all this means I'm inevitably getting older too. I'm approaching my 50s like I approached my 30s and 40s--I'm okay with my decade going up as long as my face takes a few years to catch up. I'll admit that I'm worried that my body will do another one of those immediate signs of decay things like it did after 40. Oh well.


JZ - Apr 05, 2013 3:12:33 pm PDT #17386 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.

Friday evening thinkiness: I know Roger Ebert did not believe in God or in any kind of supernatural afterlife, but I can't help thinking that if he was wrong then he is surely someplace heavenly, and I am imagining the heaven of a film lover of encyclopedic knowledge and lower-case c catholic tastes as a cinema version of Dream's library from Sandman, where he might eventually get around to rewatching everything he already loves but not until he'd spent a millennium or so watching all the masterpieces that never were or that have been lost forever.

He might start with a single pristine copy of the unbutchered director's cut of The Magnificent Ambersons, and possibly from there to Orson Welles's nonexistent but fantastic 38-part series of the entire dramatic works of Shakespeare, including Love's Labours Won.

Then, I'm not quite sure, but with the film industry the way it is there must be an Infinite library's worth of unjustly stifled or stillborn timeless classics.


Steph L. - Apr 05, 2013 3:18:03 pm PDT #17387 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I am imagining the heaven of a film lover

Getting to watch your favorite film for the first time again.

(I'll admit right here, I stole that line from an episode of Arrow, and the character claimed it was from a film critic, and I am too damn lazy to google it, but it is still SO RIGHT. For books, too, or really most things of loveliness.)


sarameg - Apr 05, 2013 3:30:36 pm PDT #17388 of 30001

I love what sudafed does for my sinuses and lungs. I hate what it does to the rest of me.


tommyrot - Apr 05, 2013 4:18:53 pm PDT #17389 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.

Dogs Wearing Pantyhose, A Popular New Meme in China

Warning: Pictures of dogs wearing pantyhose.

For some reason, this is more disturbing than I thought it'd be.


Amy - Apr 05, 2013 4:26:39 pm PDT #17390 of 30001
Because books.

I saw that before, and it was completely disturbing, tommy.


le nubian - Apr 05, 2013 4:28:35 pm PDT #17391 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

OMG. I need to unsee that.


-t - Apr 05, 2013 4:32:53 pm PDT #17392 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I t heart JZ

Also. Y'all. I saw the lead singer of a band I used to see in NO tonight playing music and he played two songs another NO band I saw a lot played all the time. Plus wine.

ALL THE FEELS


Lee - Apr 05, 2013 4:37:40 pm PDT #17393 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

WEEK IS OVER. YAY

I am debating wine.


tommyrot - Apr 05, 2013 4:40:40 pm PDT #17394 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.

I debated wine, but got a diet Coke instead.

It was flat.

Learn from my error.