Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


Spike's Bitches 49: As usual, I'm here to help you, and I... are you naked under there?

Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Laura - May 28, 2018 6:03:38 am PDT #3878 of 8219
Our wings are not tired.

If I had more hours in the day I would do random Googles for things like squirrel mating and wood fired kilns and robots. Anything to keep them good and confused.


aurelia - May 28, 2018 10:28:47 am PDT #3879 of 8219
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Browse some art. You'll have pretty pictures in your ads for a while.


Hil R. - May 28, 2018 11:22:35 am PDT #3880 of 8219
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I've cleaned most of my apartment. Things left to do are to take care of the pile of stuff on my living room chair, mop the kitchen and bathroom floors, clean the bathtub, and vacuum the hallway and bedroom. And wipe down the kitchen counters, though that's not really part of big cleaning, since I do that nearly every day.

I also need to clean out my car, but that can be done later.


Laura - May 28, 2018 1:11:12 pm PDT #3881 of 8219
Our wings are not tired.

Browse some art. You'll have pretty pictures in your ads for a while.

Oh, good plan.


Hil R. - May 29, 2018 3:50:13 am PDT #3882 of 8219
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

The doctor called. She's starting me on some iron supplements, and also wants me to call the front desk to make an appointment to talk about this more. I'll do that once I have some breakfast.


Hil R. - May 29, 2018 4:59:12 am PDT #3883 of 8219
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

OK, I called the front desk of the doctor's office, and the earliest appointment they had for me was next week, so I scheduled that appointment so that I'll have something, and the person I talked to said that she'd message the doctor to see if there was a way to get me in sooner.


Dana - May 29, 2018 5:34:26 am PDT #3884 of 8219
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

That does sound reassuring in the sense of it not being any kind of huge emergency, Hil.


SuziQ - May 29, 2018 5:43:17 am PDT #3885 of 8219
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Hil, I wish you the best with the iron supplements. My sister in anemia.

I am SO not in the mood to work today.


Toddson - May 29, 2018 8:58:52 am PDT #3886 of 8219
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

In re the NFL thing - a couple of people have made points - first of all, that during the anthem, people are talking, buying food and drink, etc., and most of the audience isn't paying any attention to it. Secondly, someone had been at a game where they'd handed out small flags ... which were mostly dumped on the floor with the trash and walked on. So ... why make an issue of the players?


Steph L. - May 29, 2018 9:11:15 am PDT #3887 of 8219
I look more rad than Lutheranism

So ... why make an issue of the players?

That's a rhetorical question, right?