My belated condolences to Sail Aweigh and family.
Congratulations, David!
The managing editor emailed it to all the senior management and me with the subject line "More proof of greatness!".
Also congratulations to Steph. This is fantastic.
I tell you I have this theory. It goes where, you're the one who's not my sister. Cuz mom adopted you from a shoe box full of baby howler monkeys, and never told you cuz it could hurt your delicate baby feelings.
Dawn ,'Selfless'
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.
Spidra Webster - Nov 30, 2016 11:32:18 am PST #3119 of 30002
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Sue - Nov 30, 2016 12:41:02 pm PST #3120 of 30002
hip deep in pie
Nathan Fillion just posted this article about Ron Glass' involvement in an org that helps kids prep for college. Maybe this would be good for Good Stuff: [link]
Sheryl - Nov 30, 2016 12:56:16 pm PST #3121 of 30002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Yay, Hec!
It has been raining on and off all day. Right now it is raining hard.
Connie Neil - Nov 30, 2016 1:32:56 pm PST #3122 of 30002
brillig
I have decided to start worrying about my car battery. That unsettling satisfaction with my life has now receded. Really, I found myself looking around going "Wasn't there something I needed to take care of? Some task that was dogging me? What have I forgotten to do?"
Jesse - Nov 30, 2016 1:40:49 pm PST #3123 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's great - thanks, Sue!
JZ - Nov 30, 2016 1:58:07 pm PST #3124 of 30002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
meara-ing:
Yay proof of greatness! Boo mysterious leaks! Boo mysterious beeps! Boo gallstones! Boo sick shrift (also, if you feel up to going out to get food, you are pretty much exactly across Golden Gate Park from the Vietnamese hot and sour soup so healing I swear it could raise the dead, but unfortunately they don't deliver so you would have to drag your ass out there)! Continuing to vibe for sumi until informed otherwise!
I am convinced that HRC lost because I didn't wear Madame President on my nails that night.
I would be crushed if that were so, but OTOH our pundits could then stop wasting everyone's time tearing us all to shreds over our inability to adequately empathize with angry white men and urging us to stop talking so much about civil rights and race and gender and other things that prevent angry white men from voting for our team. Sorry, guys, turns out it was just Zen's nail polish, so you can all shut up now.
the Bros of Has who produce objects of play for the people who sign the paychecks for Steve Rogers, Anna and Elsa, and Finn and Rey.
Come on, if you're going to go with that locution it's just mean to not include Son of Coul.
flea - Nov 30, 2016 2:21:37 pm PST #3125 of 30002
information libertarian
So there's this newish online magazine about classics edited by a PhD candidate from Princeton named Donna Zuckerberg. She wrote a forecful editorial about the co-option of classical imagery by the alt-right this week, and then today wrote about the backlash she got, and it suddenly dawned on me as I read the anti-semitic tweets she included that she is Mark Zuckerberg's sister. I am gobsmacked! It never occurred to me - I mean, surely there are a lot of Zuckerbergs!
It must be deeply weird to be Mark Zuckerberg's little sister.
Amy - Nov 30, 2016 2:27:56 pm PST #3126 of 30002
Because books.
C. Cret Buffista (of Buffista Lane on Buffista Island) sent me a lovely Thanksgiving card, and it completely brightened my day. Thank you, C. Cret!
Jessica - Nov 30, 2016 2:28:50 pm PST #3127 of 30002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Hey, can you maybe ask her why I suddenly can't post or comment on FB? It's deeply weird.
dcp - Nov 30, 2016 2:44:06 pm PST #3128 of 30002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Awkward incident on the way home from work tonight. I stopped at the gas station and the credit card readers on the pumps were out of service. So I went inside and gave the clerk a $20 bill. The sale amount was $18.12, so I went back inside for my change.
"Pump 2," I said.
"Pump 2, okay," was the reply. "$18.12?"
"Yep."
The clerk tried to give me $18.12.