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.
Young Simon: So... how'd the Independents cut us off? Young River: They were using dinosaurs.
'Safe'
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.
Jesse - Dec 22, 2014 5:02:53 am PST #13164 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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!
Steph L. - Dec 22, 2014 5:21:31 am PST #13169 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I disremember how many TPBs there are of the Dead Presidents series, but if you get them, borrow them from him and read them, because you'll crack up. (Note: former!chatty!co-worker did uncredited art on some of the issues, because he's BFFs with the artist, who was ridonkulously busy because of his other titles, so he farmed some of the art out to Chatty.)
Jesse - Dec 22, 2014 5:39:49 am PST #13170 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Amazon pulls an author's self-published novel for having too many hyphens
Oh my.
Connie Neil - Dec 22, 2014 5:47:46 am PST #13171 of 30000
brillig
Cold, wet, snowy morning. I can only think the people burbling excitedly about White Christmases didn't have to drive the freeway this morning.
Hil R. - Dec 22, 2014 5:50:11 am PST #13172 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
shumash?
Heh. Shammes.
flea - Dec 22, 2014 6:43:20 am PST #13173 of 30000
information libertarian
So, I just helped a guy looking for newspaper articles about his own conviction for murder. In 1972, but still.