Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


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.


§ ita § - Sep 19, 2013 10:02:48 am PDT #5750 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Like this? [link] [link]

The second, yes!

If you're not satisfied by evidence of actual gay TV content, including the highest rated sitcom on TV, then have fun railing against the vast homophobic billboard conspiracy.

But she's talking about a TV market with far greater parity that "including the highest rated sitcom on TV." You really think I can make a case against "the most teased telenovela event of the season" with the third couple on a Modern Family poster? Especially when she tells me she doesn't have any "played for laughs" that she needs to overlook to get there, and I'm not convinced that US network TV doesn't.

Then again, gay marriage is legal everywhere in Argentina.


sarameg - Sep 19, 2013 10:05:49 am PDT #5751 of 30000

Today I learned that bus drivers around here encourage folks to wave their lit cell phone screen so they can spot 'em waiting at the bus stop in pre-dawn dark. And stop for them.

Reminds me of train signals.


Dana - Sep 19, 2013 10:16:13 am PDT #5752 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I definitely want to go be an editor in Saudi Arabia, right?


Amy - Sep 19, 2013 10:16:34 am PDT #5753 of 30000
Because books.

You DO, Dana, you do.


Dana - Sep 19, 2013 10:24:31 am PDT #5754 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Because if there's one thing an editing job screams, it's Saudi Arabia!


Hil R. - Sep 19, 2013 10:25:37 am PDT #5755 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Whoa. I just saw a job ad for doing pretty much the same job I'm currently doing, except at West Point, for nearly twice the salary.


Jesse - Sep 19, 2013 10:35:53 am PDT #5756 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

West Point is so pretty in the fall, what with the scenery and the leaves turning and the put-together young people. I'm just saying.

Because if there's one thing an editing job screams, it's Saudi Arabia!

100%


Zenkitty - Sep 19, 2013 10:36:50 am PDT #5757 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Hil, wow! Jump on it. Right? I mean, unless West Point is a no.

Work tried to kill me today, but I fought dirty and won.


Connie Neil - Sep 19, 2013 10:40:20 am PDT #5758 of 30000
brillig

I bet West Point has well-behaved students.


Juliebird - Sep 19, 2013 10:43:46 am PDT #5759 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Third day out sick. I feel like such a loser. IDEK if I'll make it in on Friday, but god damn, I'm gonna force myself through the Saturday rental, because I need that extra cash (which makes me feel like an ass, that I'll come into work/put my health and that of others at risk for what is not my career at the place of my career, but I am poor and these vitamins and medicines ain't cheap).