Mercy is the mark of a great man. Guess I'm just a good man. Well, I'm all right.

Mal ,'Shindig'


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.


Amy - Jan 15, 2014 4:59:41 pm PST #17340 of 30000
Because books.

The very same, Sophia. She's had probably a dozen set visits by now, she tweets with all the writers and actors, and she's been in at least one episode (as an extra).


Consuela - Jan 15, 2014 5:01:35 pm PST #17341 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

She was in an episode? That's hysterical.

And she's a ficwriter. Too much.


Amy - Jan 15, 2014 5:07:51 pm PST #17342 of 30000
Because books.

She was in a S7 episode called "Slash Fiction" (if you can stand it), and she's visible in a diner booth during a key scene.


Kat - Jan 15, 2014 5:52:11 pm PST #17343 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Amy, how old is she now? I mean she wrote The Outsiders when she was 16. So is she in her 50s?


Amy - Jan 15, 2014 5:54:19 pm PST #17344 of 30000
Because books.

I guess? I'd say at least mid-50s? She has grown kids.


meara - Jan 15, 2014 7:03:05 pm PST #17345 of 30000

Oh I didn't realize she wrote that so young, I was envisioning someone much older. Like your grandma writing fanfic.

"Honestly, if you see her with a caffeinated beverage, knock it out of her hand, onto the ground. Tell her, 'This is why you're going to die alone, with your cats, and get your face eaten off.'"
"Yes, you're right, I will."

Wait, CAFFEINE is why I'm going to die alone with cats?? How did I miss this memo? And does it still apply in Seattle, or just among Mormons?


Jesse - Jan 16, 2014 3:51:51 am PST #17346 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It's a slippery slope, meara. First it's a Coke, then who knows what. (No, seriously, who knows what?)


Theodosia - Jan 16, 2014 3:57:18 am PST #17347 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

My old boss at Houghton Mifflin, who was a Starbucks fiend and the kind of smoker who stands outside the building in subzero temperatures, was aghast that I actually took a quarter or half of a No-Doz pill in the morning after I got to work.


-t - Jan 16, 2014 4:10:46 am PST #17348 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

First it's a Coke, then who knows what. (No, seriously, who knows what?)

Step three profit cats!


Kat - Jan 16, 2014 5:45:22 am PST #17349 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I have a couple of mormon students who regularly talk about the terrible awfulness of coffee beverages. Ironically, they try to harass the teacher who is also an evangelical Christian. They all argue amongst themselves and, from the outside, it looks like the engagement of irrational religion-based rules.