Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us? Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir.

'Safe'


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 - Jan 03, 2013 3:17:22 pm PST #6559 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

if it were like his books, he'd find him torn up in the trunk of a car at Logan airport.

Aw, poor Tessa! Weirdly, apparently he's currently working on a script about a pet (which now I forget the rest of the details).


le nubian - Jan 03, 2013 3:24:17 pm PST #6560 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Suzi,

it might take you 5-10 minutes, but 1) it might take your coworker much longer; 2) he probably hates doing it.

You are probably saving him a lot of time and cusswords.


Atropa - Jan 03, 2013 3:24:44 pm PST #6561 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

QVC? Huh. I will keep that in mind if the trawling through eBay doesn't turn up anything.


§ ita § - Jan 03, 2013 3:27:47 pm PST #6562 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

[Wedding photos redacted]

My sister has the naive belief she rocked it harder than I was going to do. Nuh-huh. (She gave me my style props when we went out in JA, though)


Jesse - Jan 03, 2013 3:59:15 pm PST #6563 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Why are wedding pictures so great?? I don't even know those people!


sarameg - Jan 03, 2013 4:06:18 pm PST #6564 of 30001

I think I need to read this distance swimmer's books: [link] Heard an interview with her on The Story (about her encounter at 17 with a baby gray whale) and then went and read some other articles by her. Um, yes. When Oliver Sacks and Temple Grandin are writing stellar reviews....

While I have no driving desire to beat records or swim in Antarctic waters, she speaks my language when it comes to the water.


-t - Jan 03, 2013 4:18:01 pm PST #6565 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I heard an interview with her a while back. She was fascinating, and I have no particular interest in swimming. So, probably even more fascinating to someone ho can relate to some of what she's talking about.


Kat - Jan 03, 2013 4:20:13 pm PST #6566 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

ita, your sister does look great in those pictures. Also, I love the trend of candy tables at weddings.

Lynne Cox's book is good, but I don't think she does such a fab job capturing her experiences. What makes the book is the experiences she had, not her ability to recount it as a writer.


Cass - Jan 03, 2013 4:20:45 pm PST #6567 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

So what goes better with Indian food: white wine or red?

The viognier is good. Something with some sweet or some fizz (part of why beer works is that people think fizzy wine cannot be an everyday wine and it SO can) works nicely with strongly spiced foods.

Why do adults pick chunks out of the tops of muffins AND PUT THEM BACK IN THE BOX?

They were raised by rabid and unsocialized squirrels. And should be denied muffins forever. Do not do that. It is gross.

That wedding looks like such fun. But your outfit would have rocked it more. There was tulle and fluffied skirts. Obviously that rocks harder.


sarameg - Jan 03, 2013 4:38:36 pm PST #6568 of 30001

I think part of her appeal, at least in interviews, is her giddy enthusiasm. I mean, damn: [link] (12 minute piece.) Halfway through her Antarctic swim, as she's flagging, she giggles and rallies.

I read a piece in (NYer? ) that I think was an except from her Amundsen book, and liked it. But I grew up reading all my dad's polar expedition books, some of which are worth a shitton of money now ( on,Amundsen, Perry, Scott, Cook, Shackleton, etc) and thus have a real soft spot for the topic. And never, ever, EVER want to do a real polar expedition.