...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.

Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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 - May 04, 2015 1:51:31 pm PDT #25697 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It seems like you're cutting it close regardless--what if your flight is delayed?

I know, but it is what it is.


DavidS - May 04, 2015 2:50:59 pm PDT #25698 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

It needs to be made prettier, but: [link]

Ha! "Ask anonymously" needs "(yeah, right...)" underneath it.


Burrell - May 04, 2015 3:22:23 pm PDT #25699 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Ha! "Ask anonymously" needs "(yeah, right...)" underneath it.

Or quotation marks

It's great, shrift!


Kate P. - May 04, 2015 4:04:45 pm PDT #25700 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

I leave Wednesday for Nashville

Ooh, really? I'm assuming you probably won't have much free time, but if you do and you want to get together, let me know! I'd love to see you again.

In other news, my child is supposed to be sleeping, but is instead calling, quite loudly, from her room: "Clam Chowder For Lunch!" (I bet at least a few of you can name the book we read for bedtime.)


flea - May 04, 2015 4:05:54 pm PDT #25701 of 30000
information libertarian

I can. But she's too young to lose a tooth!


Kate P. - May 04, 2015 4:07:36 pm PDT #25702 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Heh. Way too young, but she's very taken with the idea of being a Big Girl.


Matt the Bruins fan - May 04, 2015 4:10:04 pm PDT #25703 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Went to my cousin's burial today - very small afair, just the family, my cousin's closest friend, and the minister. I kind of got surprised into volunteering as a pallbearer since there were only five able bodied men present aside from the hearse driver—it was nice to be able to do one last thing for my cousin. And it was a beautiful day for it, a minor miracle in itself since the weekend of the Beale Street Music Festival is normally Monsoon Season for the Mid-South.

I'm a bit worried about my other elderly cousin (the deceased's older brother). At the cemetery he introduced himself to me as if we were strangers and later seemed uncertain whose son I was, but he knows me and just spent most of an afternoon with me two weeks ago. I hope it's just that grief and maybe lack of sleep the last few days have left him confused, and it's not a sign that he's about to take a swift downward turn as well. (His memory certainly seemed clear when we were talking about WWII aircraft at lunch afterwards.)


Burrell - May 04, 2015 4:22:49 pm PDT #25704 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I'm so sorry Matt, but also touched that you were a pall bearer. I think that's lovely.

Not sure what to say about your other cousin other than the obvious, not remembering you is never a good sign, but it might be grief and perhaps something like a mild infection or another illness. Ugh. Aging ain't for the faint of heart!


Jesse - May 04, 2015 4:30:08 pm PDT #25705 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh, Matt, it's all so hard.


Zenkitty - May 04, 2015 4:53:08 pm PDT #25706 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

It needs to be made prettier, but:

I have already followed it!

I'm sorry, Matt.