Early: Where'd she go? Simon: I can't keep track of her when she's not incorporeally possessing a space ship. Don't look at me.

'Objects In Space'


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.


sumi - May 07, 2013 11:50:13 am PDT #21771 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

From the NYT:

he police had been called two times to a house where three young women from Cleveland, who disappeared about a decade ago and who friends and relatives feared were gone forever, were found on Monday, the authorities said on Tuesday.

Is it wrong that I'd rather they had said "twice" than "two times"? Is twice too difficult a word for NYT readers?


§ ita § - May 07, 2013 11:52:28 am PDT #21772 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

that is some good times

Isn't it fun! Now that Leverage is done, it's our best source of heist/caper TV, and I like the characters and enjoy the emotional stakes.

Plus, seriously, HOW HOT ARE THEY????


JZ - May 07, 2013 12:14:42 pm PDT #21773 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.

sumi, I can't even say why exactly, but just plain "twice" reads to me a little like possibly two calls in a row or two calls about the same incident, but "two times" makes it more clear that it really was two separate occasions.


le nubian - May 07, 2013 12:16:37 pm PDT #21774 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I am trying to think about my reaction to the Cleveland stuff. I am thrilled that the 3 women are alive and relatively healthy and dismayed at what they have gone through over the past 10 years.

I don't know what to think about the police being called to the house and turning away. We don't want our privacy rights violated by having a funky neighbor call and then our house is violated, but on the other hand, after the report of a naked woman in the backyard, couldn't they have interviewed all the neighbors, made a concerted effort to contact the owner of the house, and brought him in for brief questioning?


msbelle - May 07, 2013 12:21:24 pm PDT #21775 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Diane ups the Hot factor by about 10 and it was already plenty hot.

I still never saw all of Leverage. I am taping reruns off some channels and so far they have all been things I have seen before, but I am hoping soon that I will hit new ones. I love capers.


msbelle - May 07, 2013 12:22:29 pm PDT #21776 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I am purposely not reading anything yet on the Cleveland stuff. I think I am going to be hugely freaked out. I never did read up on the Elizabeth Smart stuff.


le nubian - May 07, 2013 12:25:11 pm PDT #21777 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I keep up on shit like this, and even I am skeeved out by the details thus far. You need to give it a wide wide berth.


Sheryl - May 07, 2013 12:31:03 pm PDT #21778 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Glad your mom's surgery went well, Dana.

It's raining here. Again. It's also on the cool side. Who would have thought we'd get an extended April, instead of the May we were expecting?


Amy - May 07, 2013 12:57:09 pm PDT #21779 of 30001
Because books.

The Cleveland thing is so weird. I can't imagine how no one knew they were there for ten years, and what happened yesterday to give the one woman a chance to get out.

Today was awful, for values of awful that include no one dying or sick or houses burning. Two people got fired, one totally justly, and the other not at all, and the atmosphere in the office is essentially "hunched over, waiting for the next blow."

But that was MY day. Stephen had a great job interview and is going back for a second, and Sara loved the Friends school where she'll probably go next year (my mom works there). Yay.

This is the first chance I've had to open the board since first thing this morning.


flea - May 07, 2013 1:07:45 pm PDT #21780 of 30001
information libertarian

I had one of those public library days where it seemed like every other person I worked with was mentally ill. Many of the rest were just jobless and/or homeless. I'm glad they have the library to go to, but sometimes it makes me sad to see so many people not doing that well.