Wild monkey love or tender Sarah McLachlan love?

Xander ,'Him'


Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess  

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.


DavidS - Sep 22, 2020 3:29:19 pm PDT #26540 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Dear hivemind: for my next mound of tomatoes

Have you ever made a French tomato tart? They are delicious!

Has anyone heard from Sue Ozon?

She's also still around on FB too. I pinged her on something not that long ago.


Dana - Sep 22, 2020 3:52:45 pm PDT #26541 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

And she's on Twitter.


Cashmere - Sep 22, 2020 4:02:16 pm PDT #26542 of 30019
Now tagless for your comfort.

I swore to myself that I wasn't going do any political volunteering this election because of the way the Wisconsin Democratic Coordinated Campaign treated me last year. But a state assembly person--not even my district but I love her--asked me personally to coordinate some phone banking for her.

Ugh. I couldn't say no. She's awesome and we're using an easy program.

So I cam home last night to organize the phone bank and the zoom call before hand and *poof* I couldn't access that database I needed, the training video wouldn't play on my 10 year old laptop and I couldn't get the phone bank running.

I ended up buying a new laptop today.

  • sigh*

Now to get some local people to actually sign up.

I keep thinking, "what would msbelle do?" And I keep moving forward.


Beverly - Sep 22, 2020 4:06:23 pm PDT #26543 of 30019
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

The nice thing about ACE bandages is that you can tailor tight-loose to where you need the pressure and where you don't.

I'm with Laura, and maybe Zen, on avoidance. I'm actually cultivating numb because the alternative is so distressing. I don't follow news. I am on FB, mostly for a few special interest groups (tarot, zen, environment, fandom, etc.) I belong to, and avoid "news" as much as I can. Those of you who read my feed know I don't really manage all that well. But I do stay off news sites--just can't handle it.

I'm actually resigned to Emperor T until I die, or he does. Of course if he goes first his dynasty will just step up, one at a time, dear leeder is dead, long live the successor. I hope I go first. I don't want the animals I love, and the ones I'm skeered of and the ones that squick me to die, along with more millions of humans, of famine and heat death and raging pandemics. I don't want to see science and literature, and honor and decency subsumed by greed and venality in every walk of life. I don't want education and possibility and hope to become endless indoctrination and slavery to capitalism. I hope I'm gone before any of that happens. Because right now? It seems pretty inevitable. I'm just trying not to think about it.

And...you're truly awesome, Cash, as is msbelle, as are all of you in one way or another. You are the ones who renew my hope.


aurelia - Sep 22, 2020 4:56:07 pm PDT #26544 of 30019
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Doing an actual show has done wonders for my mood. And the show essentially being a Fannie Lou Hamer rally doesn't hurt. Between Friday-Monday I applied to be an election judge, I contributed to many many campaigns and I ordered 100 postcards to send to voters.


Consuela - Sep 22, 2020 7:36:57 pm PDT #26545 of 30019
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I signed up for this training to fight T's coup: [link]


Laura - Sep 23, 2020 7:16:08 am PDT #26546 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

Skinner's current mood - [link]

Doing an actual show has done wonders for my mood. And the show essentially being a Fannie Lou Hamer rally doesn't hurt. Between Friday-Monday I applied to be an election judge, I contributed to many many campaigns and I ordered 100 postcards to send to voters.

All good things!

Interesting, Consuela. I can't do the training but await with interest your reports about it.


-t - Sep 23, 2020 7:22:33 am PDT #26547 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'm with Skinner

Also, working and could not help but think as I dragged myself to the living room "Again? I worked yesterday..."


Steph L. - Sep 23, 2020 7:28:53 am PDT #26548 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Also, working and could not help but think as I dragged myself to the living room "Again? I worked yesterday..."

I have in fact said "Gaaaaaaah, my work is requiring me to work!"


DavidS - Sep 23, 2020 7:59:38 am PDT #26549 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I have in fact said "Gaaaaaaah, my work is requiring me to work!"

I always liked Matt Groening's pre-Simpsons greeting card on the subject: "They made me do things I didn't particularly want to do!"