And somewhere, people who support the religious right feel a sharp and inexplicable pang.
Ha! I love it.
Yay, Ginger! That is wonderful.
Lots of recovery~ma for H!
Xander: Just once I'd like to run into a cult of bunny worshippers. Anya: Great. Thank you very much for those nightmares.
'Sleeper'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
sj - Dec 01, 2013 2:02:14 pm PST #13490 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Trudy Booth - Dec 01, 2013 2:25:25 pm PST #13491 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
This is from way-back but it seems worth mentioning...
I feel like I have the opposite story to cultural appropriation, perhaps cultural abandonment. Noah refuses to believe he is Chinese. He has said, on two occasions, "People keep saying I'm Chinese but they are wrong." Essentially. When I tell him he is wrong and ask him what he is, he says, "White" and then offers up his inner arm as proof.
When I was a small child I insisted I wasn't white. The only white people I spent any time with on a regular basis were my parents. The neighborhood we lived in was largely African American, our church was black, all my friends were black, my babysitter was black... he's the one I had a meltdown with when he said something about my being white. When my mother brought it up later and asked me what I was I held up my inner arm and said (quite adamantly), "I'm pink."
Vortex - Dec 01, 2013 2:38:54 pm PST #13492 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
For a while, my niece insisted that she was grey. She said that if her father was black and her mother was white, that makes her grey. I was very amused.
Liese S. - Dec 01, 2013 2:54:42 pm PST #13493 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Hahaha Noah!
Sue - Dec 01, 2013 3:06:07 pm PST #13494 of 30000
hip deep in pie
When was the last we heard from ita? I don't remember seeing her around all day.
Jesse - Dec 01, 2013 3:12:09 pm PST #13495 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Aw, Noah! Hee.
You guys, the Good Stuff is trending on tumblr. I don't even know what that means, except a million notes and new followers. Just when I have the least time!
Sue - Dec 01, 2013 3:15:29 pm PST #13496 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Oh! Maybe that's why I've got 7 new followers today. Since Good Stuff reblogged one of my posts today.
Jesse - Dec 01, 2013 3:31:18 pm PST #13497 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't know how this shit happens -- I haven't had anything original (or, "original") in forever.
sarameg - Dec 01, 2013 3:43:32 pm PST #13498 of 30000
First attempt at cookies for the Atomic Books cookie swap. Need better quality chocolate. And more bourbon.
Noah ambushed me with a God question out of the blue after discussing whether cops can go to jail (and I have no idea where that came from either.) With no moms around to rescue me. 'Can God go to jail?' Only people can go to jail. 'Some people think God is yellow.' ...OK. 'No, really!' (Very indignantly!) I believe you! 'So can God be a person?' ....
Before I got too thick in the weeds, he hopped to another topic.
Burrell - Dec 01, 2013 4:20:24 pm PST #13499 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
God is yellow? I can't even figure out what that means.
It does add a new wrinkle to Kermit's lament "It's Not Easy Being Green."