Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.

Andrew ,'Damage'


Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Steph L. - Sep 19, 2014 7:49:12 am PDT #13353 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Yeah, we have a neighbor with a bumper sticker that reads: "The Second Amendment: America's ORIGINAL Homeland Security!" Someone with an attitude like that, I don't want to criticize. (Plus, Northside really needs at least a couple of right-wingers to balance out all the crunchy Green Party types and the abortion-loving, latte-drinking run-of-the-mill Democrats.) (Seriously, in the last presidential election, I did feel sorry for Gun Nut Neighbor* because, in a vast sea of Obama signs, he had a Romney sign, way back behind a fence.)

*We have 2 neighbors with the same first name: the gun nut and a guy who sits on his front porch and whittles. So we have dubbed them "Gun Nut Ron" and "Whittling Ron." Not to their faces. But they're both retired, so I usually see one or both of them when I take a walk, so if I have anything to report to Tim, I have to clarify which Ron I mean, so they got descriptors attached to their names. (I haven't seen Whittling Ron in a while. I hope he's okay.)


Hil R. - Sep 19, 2014 3:19:17 pm PDT #13354 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I mostly just don't really like having to see a picture of Hitler (along with a totally wrong argument) whenever I go to pick up copies.


Zenkitty - Sep 19, 2014 3:27:15 pm PDT #13355 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Hil, that sounds like the definition of a "hostile work environment."


omnis_audis - Sep 19, 2014 6:30:19 pm PDT #13356 of 30002
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Maybe bring it up at the next Climate and Diversity Committee meeting.

runs and hides!


P.M. Marc - Sep 19, 2014 10:07:12 pm PDT #13357 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

*We have 2 neighbors with the same first name: the gun nut and a guy who sits on his front porch and whittles. So we have dubbed them "Gun Nut Ron" and "Whittling Ron." Not to their faces. But they're both retired, so I usually see one or both of them when I take a walk, so if I have anything to report to Tim, I have to clarify which Ron I mean, so they got descriptors attached to their names. (I haven't seen Whittling Ron in a while. I hope he's okay.)

That's very Park and Rec.

Since 2004, I have had no sympathy at all for wrong-headed fuckwittery. Don't care if I find you personable: I have no sympathy if your party affiliation sells me down the river. None.


sj - Sep 20, 2014 6:46:28 am PDT #13358 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

In the nearly 10 years that we have been together I have managed to turn TCG into an Italian food snob. Last night's dinner was not very good, and we are reminded that while my in-laws can usually be trusted on recommendations for a good restaurant, we should not trust them when it comes to Italian restaurant recommendations.


omnis_audis - Sep 20, 2014 12:12:02 pm PDT #13359 of 30002
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

I think I've discovered why I stopped reading. Apparently, if you wear the reading glasses, it makes it fun again. I've spent the morning reading. Haven't even eaten yet. Crazy. Like I was a kid again.


sj - Sep 20, 2014 12:33:11 pm PDT #13360 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Yay, glasses! What are you reading?


omnis_audis - Sep 20, 2014 2:38:13 pm PDT #13361 of 30002
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Tripwire. It's from the Jack Reacher series.


Typo Boy - Sep 21, 2014 1:31:17 pm PDT #13362 of 30002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

My Mom uses support/compression socks from Jobst to help keep her venus stasis from leading to edema. Jobst these days is about 18 bucks a pair. Is there another brand anyone can rec that is less expensive that would provide the same level of support/compression?