Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.

Buffy ,'Sleeper'


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.


aurelia - Apr 16, 2013 7:59:37 pm PDT #19122 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

So who can give me tips about introducing dogs to indoor cats?

Are you worried about the dog chasing the cats? If the dog is bigger than the cats, set up a baby gate just off the floor enough that the cats can squeeze under and into a room the dog can't get to. (I would put the litter box in this room). They'll be able to see and smell each other and the cats will venture out when they're ready.

I was so tired after work tonight that my dinner was a couple spoonfuls of peanut butter. Now you've got me wanting ramen.


Lee - Apr 16, 2013 8:26:19 pm PDT #19123 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Are you worried about the dog chasing the cats? If the dog is bigger than the cats, set up a baby gate just off the floor enough that the cats can squeeze under and into a room the dog can't get to. (I would put the litter box in this room). They'll be able to see and smell each other and the cats will venture out when they're ready.

And the cats going after the dog.

I was definitely thinking baby gate blocking off the back half of the house.

I know it will work out--I just want to see if it can happen without any bloodshed.


Burrell - Apr 16, 2013 9:20:48 pm PDT #19124 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I was talking about real ramen, Jessica, by which I mean ramen from a local noodle place. Like I said, all about the pork broth!


Theodosia - Apr 17, 2013 2:16:18 am PDT #19125 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Jesse, I hear there's some really great RAMEN in the restaurant building just before Porter Square, so close you could walk to it from your parents' place. Including a noodle place that gets major lines.

Speaking of cool food, I had some Soup Dumplings at a Malay place in Chinatown last week. Not dumplings IN soup, you bite into the dumping and there's hot broth inside.


Jesse - Apr 17, 2013 3:06:03 am PDT #19126 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yeah, there's that new ramen place where Zing! used to be, but it's a different style of ramen, apparently. The lines seem to have died down?


Jesse - Apr 17, 2013 4:03:30 am PDT #19127 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OMG you guys, I am so fucking tired. Why could I not fall asleep last night? NO REASON. And now I have to go talk about my family to a group of strangers and then come back and do my actual job, and I don't wanna.


-t - Apr 17, 2013 4:25:42 am PDT #19128 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Speaking of cool food, I had some Soup Dumplings at a Malay place in Chinatown last week. Not dumplings IN soup, you bite into the dumping and there's hot broth inside.

I've had that! It's nifty. I have a recipe and it doesn't sound terribly hard (the trick seems to be to gelatinize your broth so you can. Fill the dumpling relatively easily, and my broth udually gels up well) but I haven't actually made it yet.


Jessica - Apr 17, 2013 4:32:37 am PDT #19129 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

There's a place on the lower east side that does French onion soup dumplings. Best fusion cuisine EVER. (They're served in an escargot plate with the cheese melted over the top, and you pick them up with a fondue fork. The dough is thicker than what you'd get in a traditional Shanghai soup dumpling so they're not as awkward to eat.)


Calli - Apr 17, 2013 4:34:12 am PDT #19130 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Speaking of cool food, I had some Soup Dumplings at a Malay place in Chinatown last week. Not dumplings IN soup, you bite into the dumping and there's hot broth inside.

That sounds delicious!

There's a place on the lower east side that does French onion soup dumplings. Best fusion cuisine EVER. (They're served in an escargot plate with the cheese melted over the top, and you pick them up with a fondue fork. The dough is thicker than what you'd get in a traditional Shanghai soup dumpling so they're not as awkward to eat.)

As does this. I have no dumplings That may have to change soon.


Amy - Apr 17, 2013 4:45:09 am PDT #19131 of 30001
Because books.

French onion soup dumplings

Where do I meet you at noon?