Here's Dana's link: [link]
Amy, good luck!
My heart expands / 'tis grown a bulge in't / inspired by / your beauty effulgent.
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 30, 2017 5:01:46 pm PDT #18342 of 30002
What is even happening?
Hil R. - Oct 30, 2017 5:08:57 pm PDT #18343 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I think I already knew a) Kevin Spacey was gay and b) about the incident with Anthony Rapp. I read Rapp's memoir so maybe it was in there. But I definitely had Kevin Spacey on my mental list of creeps.
Anthony Rapp has talked about it before, but this is the first time that Spacey's name was published. Rapp did an interview a few years ago (with GQ, maybe? Can't remember) where he told the same story, but the magazine published it without Spacey's name -- just "a well-known actor" or something like that. I kind of wonder what made Buzzfeed think that they were legally safe now, when other places wouldn't publish it.
Hil R. - Oct 30, 2017 5:13:33 pm PDT #18344 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
(Decided to delete the post above. It's not the right time for it. I apologize.)
WindSparrow - Oct 30, 2017 5:18:26 pm PDT #18345 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Sending love to all who love Strega, and to, well, all of us.
Maria - Oct 30, 2017 5:22:57 pm PDT #18346 of 30002
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Yay, Amy! Fingers are crossed.
Zenkitty - Oct 30, 2017 6:08:50 pm PDT #18347 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Good luck, Amy!
sarameg - Oct 30, 2017 7:03:28 pm PDT #18348 of 30002
I hate pretty much everything and this with the plan to take most of tomorrow off. Or today. Whatever.
Consuela - Oct 30, 2017 8:09:18 pm PDT #18349 of 30002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So sorry to hear about Strega.
But I spent the day in a barely-suppressed glee because INDICTMENTS ASSHOLES.
Pix - Oct 30, 2017 8:39:41 pm PDT #18350 of 30002
The status is NOT quo.
I am so sorry about Strega. Like a lot of people, I didn't know her, but she was just organically, root-deep, bone-deep part of the board; every post of hers came with a little, "Ah, yes, of course, there she is!" Like a neighbor you don't know that well but see all the time a block or so away, just leaving the corner store or taking their dog for a walk or waiting for the bus. Part of the rhythm and life of the community.
This. Thank you for articulating how I'm also feeling so beautifully, JZ.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 30, 2017 9:10:39 pm PDT #18351 of 30002
"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
Also sorry to hear the news about Strega. Thanks for letting us know, Cindy.
Spacey has been in a saran wrap closet in the gay community as far back as I can remember, but everything I'd heard prior to this had been about him chasing after young adult guys, not 9th graders. Was it Hec who had the hilarious story of him trying to pick up Tom Welling at a party and Welling defusing the situation by playing dumb and pretending never to get the double meanings of what he was saying?