We didn't have sex, if that's what you mean. That's all I do now, not have sex.

Anya ,'Dirty Girls'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

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.


Trudy Booth - Oct 17, 2016 6:00:22 pm PDT #29473 of 30003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Found it.


Strix - Oct 17, 2016 7:29:08 pm PDT #29474 of 30003
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I'll be checking that out in a minute!

Maria, I'm glad Lucky is doing better, and that she's easy to pill. I have to take Cosmo to the vet tomorrow afternoon; she's got some skin condition, and lost a lot of hair on her neck, and my kitty first aid has come to its limit. I've never had to give her oral meds, so I have no idea how she'll react if they're prescribed. I just hope whatever this is is easily treatable.


Calli - Oct 18, 2016 2:07:15 am PDT #29475 of 30003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I'm so glad Lucky's doing better!


SailAweigh - Oct 18, 2016 2:17:09 am PDT #29476 of 30003
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

I was watching the livestream on my phone in bed and the text scroll took up so much of the screen it felt like all I was seeing was the hate trolls; I got so discouraged I turned it off. Plus, all the floating emojis were distracting. I'm watching the damn things rather than the performers.


JZ - Oct 18, 2016 3:07:04 am PDT #29477 of 30003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Morning whine: Ugh, up for the regular early AM Tuesday meeting, after next to no sleep (work anxiety, lingering cold, and Matilda nightmare made for maybe two hours tops). I've been sickish but not actually sick for a week now and am so tired of it. Definitely not flu and not strep, just some miscellaneous cold that's playing havoc with the asthma and making me a drippy, coughing, decongestant-fogged idiot at work. BLARG.

The opening couplet from an Ogden Nash poem keeps running through my head like a sad unmusical earworm: "Very few things are very much duller/Than feeling unspecifically off-color."

Non-whine: Strix, so good to see your pixels! And I'm glad Lucky is doing better. My lovely grey Toby cat was meekly, easily pillable, the only one I've ever had who was that way, and it was blissful. It sucks having to see your critter be ill and needing medicine at all; it's nice not to have the extra stress of wondering how to get it into them without losing an extremity.


flea - Oct 18, 2016 3:07:11 am PDT #29478 of 30003
information libertarian

Is the show available for non-live viewing anywhere?


Dana - Oct 18, 2016 3:16:03 am PDT #29479 of 30003
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

I was going to complain that it was early, but JZ's got it way worse.

First set of movers come and gone with positive results. And now the sun is rising.


sj - Oct 18, 2016 3:18:18 am PDT #29480 of 30003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Good luck, Dana!


Sue - Oct 18, 2016 3:33:48 am PDT #29481 of 30003
hip deep in pie

Good luck Dana.

I wonder if Peter Thiel is consciously trying to develop his own supervillain origin story, or if that's all just a coincidence? [link]

More than anything, Peter Thiel, the billionaire technology investor and Donald Trump supporter, wants to find a way to escape death. He's channeled millions of dollars into startups working on anti-aging medicine, spends considerable time and money researching therapies for his personal use, and believes society ought to open its mind to life-extension methods that sound weird or unsavory.

Speaking of weird and unsavory, if there's one thing that really excites Thiel, it's the prospect of having younger people's blood transfused into his own veins.


JZ - Oct 18, 2016 3:40:13 am PDT #29482 of 30003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I think you're onto something, Sue.