Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.

Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


shrift - Oct 01, 2015 10:54:53 am PDT #6397 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I am returned from French Polynesia! tl;dr It was amazing and Lee and I didn't want to go home.

I foolishly thought I'd go to the office today, but it turns out that I'm too jetlagged to do anything but work from my couch and occasionally the kitchen table. At some point this weekend, I will hook up my digital camera to the computer and start processing all the photos. (Everything on FB thus far was taken with with my smartphone camera.) And finish unpacking. And move all the furniture back to where it was. It turned out that I didn't need new apartment keys, but I do have new windows which are so much nicer than the old crank windows.


msbelle - Oct 01, 2015 11:17:06 am PDT #6398 of 30003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Fuck cancer. Fuck fuck fuck. One of my best friends from college who has already beat acute rare leukemia has colon cancer metaticized on the liver. 45 and an 8 year old son.

FUCK!!!!

She's in NYC and we're not nearly as close as we once were, but goddamn it. Her dad does of pancreatic cancer 6-7 years ago. I hate everything.


Burrell - Oct 01, 2015 11:20:44 am PDT #6399 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Oh crap msbelle, I'm so sorry


Sue - Oct 01, 2015 11:38:49 am PDT #6400 of 30003
hip deep in pie

msbelle, I am so sorry.


P.M. Marc - Oct 01, 2015 11:48:23 am PDT #6401 of 30003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Msbelle, that's awful, and I'm sorry.


Jesse - Oct 01, 2015 12:00:48 pm PDT #6402 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh, Rebecca. That's terrible.


amyth - Oct 01, 2015 12:27:52 pm PDT #6403 of 30003
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen

Oh msbelle, that's so awful. I'm sorry.


Beverly - Oct 01, 2015 12:38:50 pm PDT #6404 of 30003
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

msbelle, I would hold the punching bag for you if it would do any good. I'm so sorry.


meara - Oct 01, 2015 12:42:48 pm PDT #6405 of 30003

Cancer sucks.

And yes, I enjoy having friends I think are attractive. Not the same as me being attracted to them, though. Sometimes that's "you're gorgeous but not my type" and sometimes it's "in theory you're my type but no chemistry" (for whatever reason--but usually from the knowledge of how they are inside!)

Dang. I did not win the powerball, Dana? That's what you're saying? I do not like that. Maybe Aimee or Joe did? Buffista island could still be happening. I'll close my eyes and dream.

I am at the airport three hours early. There is no earlier flight. And yet getting some work done is i know the best plan...but don't wanna! Problem is, I won't wanna tomorrow either.


Hil R. - Oct 01, 2015 1:55:31 pm PDT #6406 of 30003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Nicholas Brendon was arrested again, for choking his girlfriend. [link]