Ah Tom, I am so sorry.
If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock.
Spike ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
Sue - Nov 23, 2012 2:16:40 pm PST #1915 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Jesse - Nov 23, 2012 2:17:22 pm PST #1916 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, if it's just one thing more than you've said to her before (or one thing repeated), it's still one thing! Which is more than zero things. I'm just saying.
No, it will be under the coat. I figure that's about as much as they can expect from me.
At least there's a coat!
Tom Scola - Nov 23, 2012 2:19:10 pm PST #1917 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Why would you mother think you wouldn't want to go to your sisters? Or did SHE not want to go?
I don’t really understand what goes on in her head, but I guess the latter.
Dana - Nov 23, 2012 2:21:29 pm PST #1918 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I am dressed and ready to go. Except I don't have to leave for ten minutes, so I'm hot.
I'm sorry you had a stressful day, Tom. Family is crazy.
Sue - Nov 23, 2012 2:23:10 pm PST #1919 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Yes, and you reminded her she was there and so did not let her off the hook. That's pretty awesome.
What Scrappy Said.
Jesse - Nov 23, 2012 2:27:07 pm PST #1920 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Anyway, sorry you had a shitty day, Tom.
§ ita § - Nov 23, 2012 2:56:58 pm PST #1921 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I say we engage in revisionist history and revise Tom's day up a grade or two. It takes guts to get as far as you did, Tom. People live and die without airing that much about destructive pasts. That's what helps making them a past and not a present.
In Jamaica pretty much no one has indigenous blood. The colonisers were an extinction level event, in the end. Just not enough space for them to flee, or enough for there to be low-value land that could be written off.
At least as far as we were taught, the Spaniards tried to enslave them, and the Taino did not survive the experiment.
Once you toss out the claims to all sorts of noble English blood having leaked in via raping the staff, the other "cool" heritage is Maroon, but there's nothing genetic there. Just the idea that your forbears managed to escape slavery and plague both the Spanish and the British enough to earn an exhausted detente and self-imposed exile which gave some measure of protection from cultural assimilation, the effects of which can still be seen today.
There was a police car outside the Best Buy I passed on the way home. Go deh, Black Friday, go deh.
msbelle - Nov 23, 2012 2:58:28 pm PST #1922 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Tom, I am in awe of you. Despite being raised by two people who were hurtful, selfish, and mean - YOU are none of those things. You are a joy and a love.
Lee - Nov 23, 2012 3:14:58 pm PST #1923 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
msbelle is smart as well as nice.
erikaj - Nov 23, 2012 3:22:46 pm PST #1924 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, Scola. We did an absolutely phony "Keeping it Together" show for my grandma.She's much sicker than I knew, even though I did know she turned 82 today.