Pretty cool except for the part where I was really terrified and now my knees are all dizzy.

Willow ,'Never Leave Me'


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.


Juliebird - Sep 29, 2013 1:47:25 pm PDT #7236 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Finbarr Fancypants!!!

And yet, I'd liked that name so much I was kinda hoping you wouldn't take it so I could, whenever I get a new hellion.

But the McGee definitely makes it. Do you know what kind of cat he is?


Jessica - Sep 29, 2013 1:53:02 pm PDT #7237 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Hil's genealogy-fu is amazing!


billytea - Sep 29, 2013 1:54:34 pm PDT #7238 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

BTW definitely the right William Lipow. And now that I know his original name was Welwel Lipowitz , maybe I can find out the details about the family legend of his killing a Cossack.

That was amazing.


Hil R. - Sep 29, 2013 2:01:35 pm PDT #7239 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Anyone else have genealogy queries? I have fun with this stuff -- I like solving puzzles.


§ ita § - Sep 29, 2013 2:04:51 pm PDT #7240 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Do you do British questions, Hil? A part of the family believes we are related to the Barrett Brownings but I don't think they have any negro issue.


Hil R. - Sep 29, 2013 2:06:24 pm PDT #7241 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Do you do British questions, Hil? A part of the family believes we are related to the Barrett Brownings but I don't think they have any negro issue.

I can give it a try. A lot of British records are online, and generally indexed pretty well.


Anne W. - Sep 29, 2013 2:08:02 pm PDT #7242 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Do you know what kind of cat he is?

He's a shelter kitty and was listed as "stray," so technically it's impossible to say. That said, there are a lot of things about his general appearance, coat*, and behavior that make me suspect he's got a fair amount of Turkish Angora in him.

* his coat is silky, he doesn't seem to have a downy undercoat, and he sheds surprisingly little for such a fluffy guy.


Zenkitty - Sep 29, 2013 2:09:03 pm PDT #7243 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Hil, if you're serious... Malcolm Cornforth emigrated to the US from England in 1963, and I'd really like to know who/where he was before he came here. Cornforth seems to be an unusual name. He was almost certainly my biological father. All I know about him is, he was an engineer of some type, he liked to race cars, and he was married to a woman named Shirley.


Sheryl - Sep 29, 2013 2:09:04 pm PDT #7244 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Went to the Baltimore Book Festival. Saw some writers I know on panels. Didn't buy any books. (Too many of the used book sellers had the books in sections by type, but otherwise all haphazard. I know I'm being anal about this, but put the books in alphabetical order, dammit!)


Dana - Sep 29, 2013 2:11:41 pm PDT #7245 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I feel like shit and have managed to convince myself that I either have the flu or West Nile.