I am a large, semi-muscular man. I can take it. Don't hide behind Mal 'cause you know he'll shoot it down for you. Tell me.

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.


Kat - Jun 25, 2013 3:00:55 pm PDT #27123 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

-t, how do you fold sheets?

We took the kids to Barnes and Noble today, where I read most of a book by Jen Hatmaker. She is interesting, but also makes me squirmy. The book was thought provoking (over 7 months, she made conscious decisions to eliminate things by category for each month. The first was food, where she ate only 7 foods for the entire month, then month 2 was wearing the same 7 pieces of clothing. Month 3, she donated 7 things a day, usually trying to find the donee people specifically...) but also preacher (and given her super christian background, the preachiness made sense).

To practice simplicity, I opted not to buy it.


Calli - Jun 25, 2013 3:02:28 pm PDT #27124 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

The Supreme Court and Paula Deene and Anne Rice make me tired and sad about the whole damn country.


Kat - Jun 25, 2013 3:03:44 pm PDT #27125 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

agreed, Calli.


-t - Jun 25, 2013 3:16:18 pm PDT #27126 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yeah, that's where I am, Calli.

Kat, the big innovation is putting the folded sheets inside one of the pillow cases of the set to keep them all together. Somehow they seem to take up less space overall, which doesn't make sense to me, but they also don't topple off the shelves as easily and the sets stay together even when they do, which was pretty much what I was after. Probably it will limit the amount of cat hair that gets all over the purportedly clean sheets, also, since the linen closet is a prime catnap locale.

Rather than empty the linen closet and refold everything all at once, I've just been folding each set the new way as it got washed and put away, so it's taken a while.


sarameg - Jun 25, 2013 3:42:48 pm PDT #27127 of 30001

[link] The anti-abuse ad campaign. Not at all triggery unless people rubbing noses with their pets freaks you out...


sarameg - Jun 25, 2013 3:51:46 pm PDT #27128 of 30001

The outtakes are cute/funny too: [link]


lisah - Jun 25, 2013 4:25:55 pm PDT #27129 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

The outtakes are cute/funny too

hee! Rod Daniels & Bandit!!! Adam Jones & his dog! And, of course, Buck Showalter and his basset hound!!! too much


sarameg - Jun 25, 2013 4:41:44 pm PDT #27130 of 30001

Sadly, it sounds like the city might be being an asshole in its partnership with the campaign: [link]

I don't get it. (Also, why do I google research everything to death. I could just not know...oh.)


-t - Jun 25, 2013 4:47:45 pm PDT #27131 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

My pink rubber gloves with the pink gingham cuffs (that are, incidentally, just like the ones Annie wears in Nocturnal Vigilantism) are falling apart. Replacing with yellow to match my kitchen.

Those pictures are adorable, the outtakes especially.


sarameg - Jun 25, 2013 4:56:57 pm PDT #27132 of 30001

The official photos were on billboards and posters all around the city.