Timelies all!
Yeah, this hasn't been a great week to have a birthday. (Mine was yesterday. At least I got a Great Big Sea concert out of it.)
Mal: And I never back down from a fight. Inara: Yes, you do! You do all the time!
'Shindig'
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.
Sheryl - Apr 18, 2013 12:56:49 pm PDT #19354 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
shrift - Apr 18, 2013 12:58:07 pm PDT #19355 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
The door bit me! Or maybe I wasn't paying attention and jammed my finger so hard that it's bleeding and it hurts. I've been in meetings all day and I can't brain and I have to make an appearance at a happy hour with some of my new team. And then groceries and then I'm faceplanting on my bed.
Sue - Apr 18, 2013 1:00:49 pm PDT #19356 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Happy Belated, Sheryl.
le nubian - Apr 18, 2013 1:02:18 pm PDT #19357 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Sheryl,
Did I miss it! Happy Belated.
§ ita § - Apr 18, 2013 1:02:29 pm PDT #19358 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I enjoyed this headline from Gawker: Is the New York Post Edited by a Bigoted Drunk Who Fucks Pigs?
See, if Gawker weren't bottom feeding click baiters, this would have some sort of angle. But they are totally okay with having inflammatory and proven false headlines, so all I can hope is that they bruise themselves falling off the not very high horse.
I have Hair to thank for teaching me complicated sexual words and racial epithets when I was about 12.
For me it was porn and politically charged fiction about slavery and the civil rights struggle. And I was younger.
My mother also introduced me to the word "jew" (as opposed to "Jew"), and she was verily soberly using it as a teaching opportunity (we had no idea!) and putting down a 8 point letter and a 4 point letter in the same word. That's like my mother's perfect storm--winning Scrabble and teaching us how horrible humans are.
Beverly - Apr 18, 2013 1:03:12 pm PDT #19359 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
That song is probably the only place I've ever heard "jigaboo".
Unfortunately it is not, for me. I grew up with it as standard casual polite conversation, from people I loved. Also, being "Gyped" out of things, and "Jewing" somebody down, and coons and we always had Brazil nuts at Christmas, only that's not what they were called.
My family eventually learned this was not polite public conversation, but they never understood why. It wasn't at all malicious; that really didn't make it any better.
Consuela - Apr 18, 2013 1:04:53 pm PDT #19360 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The FBI has released footage of two men they want to identify associated with the Boston Marathon bombing: [link]
msbelle - Apr 18, 2013 1:05:48 pm PDT #19361 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I GOT THE JOB!!!!! No date on transitioning over and I cannot say anything at work yet, but I GOT IT AND HAVE A SIGNED OFFER LETTER. same pay, benefits, everything.
Lee - Apr 18, 2013 1:06:05 pm PDT #19362 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
YAY MSBELLE!
shrift - Apr 18, 2013 1:06:19 pm PDT #19363 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Oh, Beverly. One day I will convince my father not to use a certain phrase about rigging things, but it hasn't happened yet.