and Yay for Taylor.
Can't drink, smoke, diddle my willy. Doesn't leave much to do other than watch you blokes stumble around playing Agatha Christie.
Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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.
beth b - Aug 12, 2014 6:03:37 am PDT #3996 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Sue - Aug 12, 2014 6:28:32 am PDT #3997 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Thanks for all the ma. My dad is out of surgery and the Dr. Is pleased with how is went. I'm hoping the anasthetic won't make him too confused. I haven't seen him post op...I'm home to sleep b/c I have the overnight shift of sitting w. my dad.
PS- if I'm ever I the hospital, let my family know I don't need a 24 hour a day vigil. God lord they are intense.
sumi - Aug 12, 2014 7:16:06 am PDT #3998 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
I heard about Robin Williams via Jared Padalecki's twitter feed. He's a very prolific tweeter.
Also: so cool that Pleides gets her very own Google Doodle.
And congratulations to Taylor. Very nice.
Jesse - Aug 12, 2014 7:30:38 am PDT #3999 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Glad to hear it, Sue!
PS- if I'm ever I the hospital, let my family know I don't need a 24 hour a day vigil. God lord they are intense.
That would be an amazing flurry of emails.... "Dear O family, you don't know me, but I can confidently say that Sue does not need so much watching-over!"
§ ita § - Aug 12, 2014 7:34:44 am PDT #4000 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The porn GIF trollers have apparently a) shut down comments at gawker, at least temporarily b) expanded to kotaku and io9 and c) shut down image uploads at io9, at least temporarily.
Steph L. - Aug 12, 2014 7:51:32 am PDT #4001 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Is it victim-blaming if I say that the Gawker empire could have prevented this if they weren't so hell-bent on protecting burner accounts because of theoretical tips? I mean, yeah, the trolls are 100% wrong, but it seems like Nick Denton just didn't give a single shit.
meara - Aug 12, 2014 7:56:55 am PDT #4002 of 30000
they weren't so hell-bent on protecting burner accounts because of theoretical tips?
I don't quite understand--couldn't they have a separate/special place for that, if they really wanted? Where burner accounts are allowed for a particular comment thread, or one particular form on gawker somewhere, or whatnot?? Hell, for that matter if someone REALLY wants to send them an anonymous tip, can't they just make up an email and email it to like, tips@gawker or something??
Jesse - Aug 12, 2014 8:01:02 am PDT #4003 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, that's a ridiculous justification.
Jesse - Aug 12, 2014 8:01:28 am PDT #4004 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
PS: I did almost say "motherfucker" in a meeting just now, so maybe I should stick to network TV for the rest of the week.
erikaj - Aug 12, 2014 8:28:34 am PDT #4005 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Josh Charles usually knows the right thing to say.