I miss Oz. He'd get it. He wouldn't say anything, but he'd get it.

Xander ,'Get It Done'


Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served  

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.


Laura - May 16, 2017 2:42:20 am PDT #11496 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.

I think this is the guy.

Good to see they got him.

looking for the perpetrators and squishing them like small bugs

I hope so. The damage was big in China too. This morning they are making North Korea noises. Not sure if that is proven. Bug that is a bug that would be good to squish.


Jesse - May 16, 2017 2:56:18 am PDT #11497 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Holy crap, aurelia!


Dana - May 16, 2017 4:30:54 am PDT #11498 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

My new morning ritual:

Wake up.

Take pills.

Check Twitter to see if Trump has permanently ruined any of our cherished institutions yet.


Dana - May 16, 2017 4:31:40 am PDT #11499 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

He, of course, is taking the predictable course: defending what he did (because he did it, so by definition it must be right) and then yelling about the people who leaked it.


-t - May 16, 2017 4:50:02 am PDT #11500 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I appreciate the update, Dana. Like a groundhog, I can only poke my nose into Twitter briefly before being scared back into my bubble for six more weeks.

Also the reminder to take my pills.


Steph L. - May 16, 2017 5:21:41 am PDT #11501 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

This is one of my favorite things (for real) about my job: when an author is pissy about style changes that aren't negotiable. There are very few of these, but when it happens, no matter what the author says, we will NOT change the wording back to their original.

When they push back, I get to unleash the senior managing editor on them. She is a scary-ass pit bull on things like this, and it's a glorious thing to behold.


Gudanov - May 16, 2017 5:41:39 am PDT #11502 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping

So Trump has himself said that he fired the FBI director because he didn't like that his campaign was being investigated. Then he follows up with disclosing classified intelligence provided by an ally that requested the intelligence be shared with nobody... to the Russians. And it appears the reason he shared the intelligence was to show off.

I wouldn't be surprised if Face The Nation this weekend is just John Dickerson saying "Are you fucking kidding me?"


Dana - May 16, 2017 6:11:16 am PDT #11503 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

ABC has a new show called Downward Dog. With a talking dog.


Laura - May 16, 2017 6:11:59 am PDT #11504 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.

He, of course, is taking the predictable course: defending what he did (because he did it, so by definition it must be right) and then yelling about the people who leaked it.

Despite being seemingly impossible, it gets crazier every day. I had to message my nephew and suggest to him that he block his dad, my brother, from his political posts. The kid (well mid-40s kid) posted a completely reasonable 'the world has gone mad' post about the Russia stuff and his dad responded that he pitied how misguided he was. Brother buys into every right wing conspiracy theory. Sigh.


Tom Scola - May 16, 2017 6:14:40 am PDT #11505 of 30002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

a new show called Downward Dog. With a talking dog.

Is the dog a yoga instructor?