Jayne is a girl's name.

River ,'Trash'


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.


Jesse - Dec 08, 2012 4:17:17 pm PST #3663 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Hooray for good afternoons!


§ ita § - Dec 08, 2012 5:32:40 pm PST #3664 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That's great, Consuela!

How much do you normally see your parents, Consuela, if there is a normal? Are you expecting to spend more time with them as part of your mother's acclimation, or is this close to usual?

I have decided the only way the apple thing is going to stick is if I take notes. So I'm using a totally OTT app with my Evernote back end, and I'm taking a picture of each apple and recording my opinions of the taste. Otherwise I totally forget which is which, and I certainly can't tell them apart by looking.

So I went to Whole Foods and got one of each of the red ones. I'd never even heard of Arkansas Black before. Yoinks.

You know when you get into a weird argument? What is pilot season? I mean, what takes place during it, and when in the year is it?


Ginger - Dec 08, 2012 5:40:27 pm PST #3665 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Many people cite the Arkansas Black as the best eating apple, and I agree with them when I get a good one. Sometimes, probably because of storage, they can be mealy.


Steph L. - Dec 08, 2012 5:50:33 pm PST #3666 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I've never heard of Arkansas Black. It sounds like a kind of pot. t edit Marijuana, to be clear. Not a cooking pot.


Kat - Dec 08, 2012 5:51:01 pm PST #3667 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Okay expert googlers, I need a Kehinde Wiley portrait of two young men. It has a background with silver filigree and one of the young men is in a plaid shirt. HELP!


-t - Dec 08, 2012 5:54:53 pm PST #3668 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Dee and Ricky? [link]


Jesse - Dec 08, 2012 5:54:58 pm PST #3669 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

This one? [link]


Kat - Dec 08, 2012 5:55:03 pm PST #3670 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Drrr... Found it. I was searching wrong: [link]


Kat - Dec 08, 2012 5:58:27 pm PST #3671 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

You all are awesome. I'm using that piece, along with an interview with Wiley + Claude McKay's "If We Must Die" plus a Gwendolyn Brooks poem "The Boy Died in My Alley."

Now I'm looking for an article where a principal talks about the number of funerals she has attended. found it! [link]

Also, if you have other google-fu... Dee and Ricky is based on another pre 20th century portrait (much of Wiley's work is) and if you could figure out what, I'd be in awe. I can't. lots of his portraiture is titled "After ....." which explains where it is from.


Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 08, 2012 6:01:00 pm PST #3672 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I've never heard of Arkansas Black...

Don't feel bad. I haven't either and I've lived in Arkansas most of my life.