Now, I can hold a note for a long time...actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.

Host ,'Why We Fight'


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.


P.M. Marc - Jan 29, 2013 9:51:59 am PST #9308 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

So, in the winter Port Townsend pretty much shuts down st 5. It's a very dark & rainy ghost town out there. However, I have discovered a cozy little wine bar and have a glass of zin, so things are looking up.

For evenings, I strongly recommend seeing something at The Rose.

PT does tend to close early in the winter. The co-op as you enter town's pretty good, though, if you need to grab a snack, and again, there's always The Rose.


Allyson - Jan 29, 2013 9:53:51 am PST #9309 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I had them cancel the group appointments and switched my doctor. I think I want to go home because I'm useless at work .


Consuela - Jan 29, 2013 10:38:25 am PST #9310 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Today I had a great lighthouse tour (not too much peeling paint! No mildew!) and a really promising meeting, and then a tour of the Wooden Boat Foundation, and I'm taking the rest of the day off. There's lots of shops & cafes here, I shall go wandering.


Laura - Jan 29, 2013 10:55:58 am PST #9311 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

I'd call accomplishing that a win for the day, Allyson.


Burrell - Jan 29, 2013 11:12:28 am PST #9312 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I'm with Laura,that counts as a win.


Kat - Jan 29, 2013 11:13:39 am PST #9313 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I'm drowning in paper at my desk. Ugh.

I have a quick question -- anyone have a non-erinaceous TED talk that they think is amazing and would be good for students studying how rhetoric works?


Laura - Jan 29, 2013 11:29:02 am PST #9314 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

I haven't seen her TED talk, but Tavi Gevinson was on Colbert the other night and I thought she was a really articulate teen. Link to her TED - [link]


DavidS - Jan 29, 2013 11:54:00 am PST #9315 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I haven't seen her TED talk, but Tavi Gevinson was on Colbert the other night and I thought she was a really articulate teen.

She was!

I went to see Rio in SF when she was touring with the Rookie girls and I had only a vague idea of what the site was about. So Matilda and I are hanging out with Rio, eating ice cream and we troop over to the park where all these teen girls in homemade clothes and flower crowns are clustering around this one blonde girl. And she got up and started talking to them and she was literally one of the most charismatic people I've ever seen in person. Completely effortless and at ease in her own skin.

"Who's that?!" I asked Rio. "That's Tavi," she said.


Laura - Jan 29, 2013 12:01:55 pm PST #9316 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

Of course anyone that can hold their own in a Colbert gets points from me, but for a teen it has to be that much more difficult.


Amy - Jan 29, 2013 12:03:09 pm PST #9317 of 30001
Because books.

Tavi is really special. She was only thirteen or something when she started her blog.

So ... I got a promotion, and a raise. I'm now a full-time employee instead of a contractor, and an editor instead of a content writer (although I can still write pieces and get paid for them on a freelance basis if I want to). I'm really hoping I didn't make this up in my head.