Could just be a hoax, though. I fake some headaches, everyone gets used to poor helpless Spike. Then one day, no warning, I snap a spine, bend a head back, drain 'em dry. Brilliant.

Spike ,'Potential'


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.


NoiseDesign - Mar 23, 2014 9:47:58 pm PDT #23194 of 30000
Our wings are not tired

The numerous things that can get you in trouble in Cincinnati.


aurelia - Mar 24, 2014 2:15:24 am PDT #23195 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I knew you'd understand.

Travel in Chicago is off to an auspicious start today. A train pulling into O'hare didn't stop. It ended up on the escalator. 32 injured, but it sounds like none are too serious.


lisah - Mar 24, 2014 2:31:56 am PDT #23196 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate

Jesus, aurelia! Yikes!


aurelia - Mar 24, 2014 2:37:30 am PDT #23197 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

And now part of the red line is shut down (south side) because a car went through a fence and hit a train. CTA chaos.


Kat - Mar 24, 2014 2:56:12 am PDT #23198 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Oh my gosh! That all sounds awful, aurelia.

I'm up and going to the pool. If I can find pants, that is. If I can't find pants then I will put the dress on and still go to the pool.

It's definitely a monday.


Jessica - Mar 24, 2014 3:17:29 am PDT #23199 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I love Neil deGrasse Tyson. Holding a baby. The little social commentary asides.

I found the editing around the baby to be very upsetting. He was holding it in one scene, and then the very next shot he was standing on the edge of a cliff with no baby! Editors, don't do that!!


-t - Mar 24, 2014 3:25:58 am PDT #23200 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

WTH, Chicago!


Jesse - Mar 24, 2014 3:46:22 am PDT #23201 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Somebody's got a case of the Mondays. And by "somebody," I mean the city of Chicago.

I just had what turned into a cute conversation on the way into the office. Two colleagues, a woman and a man, and me, and we're talking about the trip the other woman and I are about to go on, and she says she's trying to figure out what to wear. The man immediately says, "Summer dresses!" Hee. He was saying he's jealous because men's professional clothes are so much hotter than women's.


Theodosia - Mar 24, 2014 3:49:54 am PDT #23202 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"

Thank goodness, in another two weeks, Walking Dead goes on hiatus, so that I'll be able to catch Cosmos in real time. (The roommate reserves The Good Wife for her immediate viewing pleasure. Each week we have a polite standoff over who gets to watch, since she doesn't want to be in the room while WD is on....)


tommyrot - Mar 24, 2014 4:29:56 am PDT #23203 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Check out the pictures (slideshow): More than 30 hurt when Blue Line train jumps platform at O'Hare - chicagotribune.com