I think some of us may appreciate this: The NASCAR fan at work indicated to me that he loves Valentines's Day because it means racing season starts again in a couple weeks.
You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
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.
WindSparrow - Feb 14, 2014 9:18:35 pm PST #9320 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
omnis_audis - Feb 14, 2014 11:07:27 pm PST #9321 of 30002
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
More important than that, 10 days till first Spring Training game. It's almost baseball season!!!
sj - Feb 15, 2014 12:28:38 am PST #9322 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
What Omnis said. To me the start of baseball season means there is an end in sight to winter.
Hil R. - Feb 15, 2014 2:54:16 am PST #9323 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
It's snowing again. Which means I probably ought to wait until it stops snowing, and they've plowed the roads, before going to get my car, which will then be under even more snow.
billytea - Feb 15, 2014 3:37:22 am PST #9324 of 30002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
So, Ryan was feeling brave today, and we watched an episode of Planet Dinosaur. This one featured Spinosaurus, the largest dino predator known, and Carcharodontosaurus, a shark-toothed carnivore larger than Tyrannosaurus rex. Remarkable having two such apex predators coexisting in one environment. Ryan enjoyed it a lot, and spent the rest of the day telling me he was baby Spinosaurus and I was daddy Spinosaurus.
In addition to these two giants, the program also showed a third theropod. This one was still big by our standards, but at 6 metres long was less than half the length of its two neighbours. Its skull was also weak for subduing prey, so it's assumed to have been a scavenger.
Ryan asked me at this point:
"What's that dinosaur, Daddy?"
"Oh, that one is called Rugops."
"Rugops? ...Oh! [starts singing] RUGOPS THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, HAD A VERY SHINY NOSE..."
And so, to the board I bequeath the image of Santa's sleigh being pulled by a bevy of these beauties: [link]
![[link]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rugops_BW.jpg.){kind=link}
erikaj - Feb 15, 2014 8:49:28 am PST #9325 of 30002
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, it's just stupid, not a hate crime or anything, so I don't feel like eating his lunch over it(it's tiring, explaining all the time, and also? I already feel like a rotten-toothed spinster already this month. Nothing picks up the spirits like "Ableism Whack-A_Mole.)
WindSparrow - Feb 15, 2014 9:14:32 am PST #9326 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
This world is all the better for having such a Ryan in it. Sadly I was not able to fully enjoy the riches of his imagination as the link did not work, but I can look it up on my own in a few minutes.
Yeah, erika, this time of year can mightily suck for feeling like one's essential fortitude sucked away. Anybody else's idea of what is appropriate and/or cute doesn't have to be the tall building for your advocacy super powers to leap.
Good gravy, I hope that tortured metaphor worked out to something supportive of what you are actually thinking and feeling. It kind of got away from me, and now I'm not even sure what it means.
omnis_audis - Feb 15, 2014 10:01:16 am PST #9327 of 30002
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
erikaj - Feb 15, 2014 11:42:24 am PST #9328 of 30002
Always Anti-fascist!
It's fine, thanks anyway.
Cass - Feb 15, 2014 1:01:06 pm PST #9329 of 30002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I think some of us may appreciate this: The NASCAR fan at work indicated to me that he loves Valentines's Day because it means racing season starts again in a couple weeks.
There's an exhibition race tonight even!
Which I am realizing might explain my overwhelming attacks of the unexplained sads. This is when Dad and I would be getting to Daytona. So listening to Nascar on MRN radio streaming and an adult beverage tonight, it is.