I also hated The Pearl.
Surgery~ma for your dad, Sue.
Strong like an Amazon.
Tara ,'Storyteller'
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.
aurelia - Aug 22, 2018 6:02:16 pm PDT #28703 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Theodosia - Aug 22, 2018 6:08:43 pm PDT #28704 of 30002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
It's the practical details that make the Fire story feel so very, since of course London really had been to Alaska.
One detail I'd love to work into a story of mine is how the housewives used to tell if the oven was hot enough for baking: hold your hand into it, and count out loud until you couldn't stand it anymore. Through practice, you'd determine that the oven was hot enough say when you couldn't count beyond ten or whatever.
-t - Aug 22, 2018 6:13:25 pm PDT #28705 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Pretty sure I haven't read The Pearl. I know I haven't read Grapes of Wrath or East of Eden. Makes it a lot easier to like Steinbeck, I'd wager.
-t - Aug 22, 2018 6:32:46 pm PDT #28706 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I've gotten into the habit of having Trader Joe's drinkable yogurt before bed, some vague notion of calcium and vitamin d being good for sleep and live cultures being generally good. Tonight's set ING tasted kind of funny, like maybe it was considering making a career change to cheese, so after I drank I checked the expiry date: Aug 10. That's probably not going to hurt me, right?
aurelia - Aug 22, 2018 6:38:21 pm PDT #28707 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Maybe you'll wake up with superpowers, -t.
-t - Aug 22, 2018 6:56:20 pm PDT #28708 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Fingers crossed!
aurelia - Aug 22, 2018 6:56:58 pm PDT #28709 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
A friend posted this on FB [link] and I really want to say that the meme reads like a prompt for slash fic, but I'm afraid that's the wrong corner of my friendslist. I don't want to end up trying to explain slash.
meara - Aug 22, 2018 7:32:26 pm PDT #28710 of 30002
Hah that totally sounds like RPF, aurelia!!
I had a friend remind me of the Expert Consultant sketch tonight, where the need to draw seven red lines, perpendicular to each other. And two should be in transparent ink, and one in green ink. And one in the shape of a kitten? It's too real.
Shir - Aug 22, 2018 11:32:10 pm PDT #28711 of 30002
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Surgery~ma!
I am tired. There's a wonderful documentaries film festival at the library this week, but I may have ordered one more ticket than I should have, energywise. All events are wonderful (saw RBG last night, and The Other Side of Everything the day before - highly recommended), but there's one more screening + live show tonight which I might be too tired to enjoy.
Laura - Aug 23, 2018 2:29:43 am PDT #28712 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
Lots of surgery~ma! I wish the roller coaster stuff wasn't so common with medical procedures, but it is.
Pretty sure I didn't read The Pearl or To Build a Fire, but memory of what I have read isn't that great. I generally avoid depressing fiction and have a strong preference for characters I would enjoy hanging with for a time. That said I loved Grapes of Wrath and Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Mostly now I read much lighter choices.
I find yogurt expiration dates to be pretty loose. Here's to superpowers!
A friend posted this on FB [link]
Wow, people are whack. Why? Also, I don't think it is possible for any Trump fic to be entertaining. Way too much thinking of him already.
Shir, I hope you are able to find the energy to enjoy the shows. Sometimes entertainment can be invigorating.
ION, it is 45 here this morning! 60 inside the house. I am bundled in sweat clothes and turned on the portable heaters.