I am once again driving in circles. I will drive out to the Catskills on Wednesday.
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Theodosia - Dec 22, 2014 4:12:17 am PST #13159 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"
Dana - Dec 22, 2014 4:31:26 am PST #13160 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I get to head to the doctor today to get antibiotics before we leave town tomorrow. I guess it's better than going to work?
Strix - Dec 22, 2014 4:47:45 am PST #13161 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
We leave in the morning of the 24th to travel up to Iowa, and come back the evening o the 26th. I still have a few gifts to get, wrapping to finish and some baking to do, but it's under control.
Maria came to KC yesterday for the day and we had a WONDERFUL time! Total spontaneous visit, and it was a marvel of synchronicity -- Micah came in for his holiday stay the same day WITHIN 5 MINUTES OF MARIA'S FLIGHT, in the same terminal, and, when Micah's bag got sent to who-knows-where instead of KC, I already had to drive Maria back to the airport and the bag was ready to be picked up!
Maria got to meet my darling husband and my sweet boy, Micah, and we had a loooong, delicious, Bellini'd fancy brunch at a swank restaurant in downtown KC. We talked, we cursed, we laughed, we charmed the waiter...it was too short a trip, but it was absolutely bloody fantastic.
Later, I couldn't find the travel menorah I had/have somewhere, so I made one from the zillion tea light I have on a blue place mat, elevating the...shumash? that one candle, and Micah, pronounced Jewish-scholar-expert-in-residence, pronounced it fine.
And then he got a Deadpool poster, and freaked, because Deadpool is his FAVORITE FAVORITE OF ALL FAVORITES. And then we lay on the couches and watched Edge of Tomorrow, because Winter Soldier is only for rent in the stupid Redboxes right now, and we were all in PJ's.
REALLY. GOOD. DAY.
Steph L. - Dec 22, 2014 4:51:41 am PST #13162 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
watched Edge of Tomorrow
That movie was actually really good. I wasn't sure what to expect, because Tom Cruise is kind of a tool, but it was great, due in large part to Cruise. That was a perfect role for him, and it reminded me that he can actually act when he's not being a tool. And Emily Blunt kicks ALL ASS.
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Deadpool is his FAVORITE FAVORITE OF ALL FAVORITES
If he hasn't read the Marvel NOW trades of Deadpool: Dead Presidents, he will love it. It's ridiculously smart and, of course, super funny.
Strix - Dec 22, 2014 4:57:23 am PST #13163 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I'd seen it and was astonished at how entertaining and good it was. I HATE Cruise's smug face when he's being Tom Cruise, but he just damned good in most action flicks.
They loved it too!
I'll ask him about "Dead Presidents;" he's not allowed to read ALL the Deadpool stuff yet, of course, but he's almost 13, fer Chrissakes...he knows about bad words and cartoon violence.
Jesse - Dec 22, 2014 5:02:53 am PST #13164 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh thank goodness -- I just got my mother to do online invitations for the open house she's having in two weeks. She didn't quite connect that it actually is just in two weeks, so was dithering about paper invites and whatever. So we've just sent 60 emails. Edit: I mean 72.
Steph L. - Dec 22, 2014 5:05:47 am PST #13165 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
The violence in Dead Presidents is pretty broadly cartoon-ish, from what I remember. The basic storyline is that all the dead POTUSes are brought back from the dead, because comics. And Deadpool is brought in to stop them. So he has to re-kill them, which does mean violence. But IIRC it's very cartoon-ish, rather than grim and awful. I feel like it would be okay for a 13-year-old, but every kid (and parental guidelines for what they can read) is different.
And it's wickedly funny, riffing on all the presidents' various personality quirks and such.
Tom Scola - Dec 22, 2014 5:09:02 am PST #13166 of 30000
They pay me in WOIMS
Amazon pulls an author's self-published novel for having too many hyphens: [link]
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 22, 2014 5:14:46 am PST #13167 of 30000
You have to remember that being a 5-time Olympic medalist means Hilary Knight has been playing hockey at an elite level at least 16 years. It's impossible for her to be a teenage girl less than 16 years old, thus the President's complete lack of interest.
I had a very weird dream last night, wherein I watched JD from Scrubs and his wife (not Elliot) and parents (not his parents from Scrubs, Liz Sheridan and Barney Martin, so Seinfeld's parents) go on winter vacation to Poland. They stayed in a beach tourist town so it was too cold to actually go to the beach, and mallard ducks were hovering around people like mosquitoes. Also, anthropomorphic bananas were an oppressed ethnic group in the area; I saw one playing saxaphone in a band.
Strix - Dec 22, 2014 5:18:35 am PST #13168 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Amazon pulls an author's self-published novel for having too many hyphens
BWAAHAHAHA!
Oh, he's read a lot of the Deadpool, and I am the last person to be a hard-core censor about reading material. But there's some Deadpool's that ARE way, WAY too sexual and it's visual, ya know?
Maybe that'll be another Hanukkah gift: I need two more, anyway. Thanks!