All the screenwriters must be chewing nails because if they'd come up with this plot everyone would say it was too outlandish.
This is my boat. They're part of my crew. No one's getting left. Best you get used to that.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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.
Connie Neil - Jan 18, 2019 7:22:47 am PST #4064 of 30019
brillig
Theodosia - Jan 18, 2019 7:41:04 am PST #4065 of 30019
'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"
Still no rent from roommate, who is reduced to staring at her small cellphone for outside entertainment (there is no TV in the living room) or paper books.
Her heart operation is supposedly going to be rescheduled in a meeting next Tuesday -- since it's complex, including a bed on a cardiac rehab floor AND a possible stay in a rehab facility until she is deemed safe to climb stairs). It's like 7 months past the original operation date now...
Laura - Jan 18, 2019 7:57:52 am PST #4066 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
As Consuela said, there are vast numbers of things that happen to our benefit without us being aware of the details. It must be so frustrating for the people responsible to see their projects fall apart. And when they finally get back to work they will have to work 10x as hard to try and get things back on track.
Not only does Trump not care about any of it, he is willfully ignorant of all that the government even does for us.
I'm sorry, Theodosia. It sounds like she clearly is in a terrible funk, but bills still have to be paid!
Dana - Jan 18, 2019 8:01:19 am PST #4067 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
This is going to be a 19-part HBO series that sweeps the Emmys that year.
Gudanov - Jan 18, 2019 8:17:39 am PST #4068 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping
This is going to be a 19-part HBO series that sweeps the Emmys that year.
That sounds right.
Amy - Jan 18, 2019 8:31:22 am PST #4069 of 30019
Because books.
This is going to be a 19-part HBO series that sweeps the Emmys that year.
And I think about watching it and just groan. I wonder if that's how (some of) our parents felt about All the President's Men, etc.?
Jessica - Jan 18, 2019 8:34:56 am PST #4070 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ugh, and then Trump will claim he won 19 Emmys. No thanks!
megan walker - Jan 18, 2019 8:38:23 am PST #4071 of 30019
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Yeah, I'm so curious how all this will look when it's history. Someday this will all get summed up in a paragraph in a textbook as if it were inevitable and makes sense! So weird.
As someone who is editing a revision of an American Government textbook right now (AIFG?!), I can tell you it is more than a paragraph.
ETA: I'm hoping that by the time we get to that chapter in the APUSH book I'm working on, more of this will be resolved.
DavidS - Jan 18, 2019 9:08:29 am PST #4072 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
And I think about watching it and just groan.
It's going to be a Black Comedy like The Death of Stalin.
Or possibly a Farce like Noises Off.
Jessica - Jan 18, 2019 9:58:06 am PST #4073 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Or possibly a Farce like Noises Off.
You TAKE the hamberders. You LEAVE the newspaper!