Mal: He calls back, you keep them occupied. Wash: What do I do, shadow puppets?

'The Message'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.  

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.


Jesse - Feb 26, 2022 5:09:12 pm PST #13427 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

You can also get what's left at the Mexican place in Harvard Sq at like 3am -- I wonder if the students know about it!


-t - Feb 26, 2022 5:50:17 pm PST #13428 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Mmm, piroshki


DavidS - Feb 26, 2022 5:57:52 pm PST #13429 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I'm a little emotionally exhausted from hitting refresh on the NYT Ukraine live updates all day.

ION, we have been rewatching Pushing Daisies. Though except for a few random episodes it's a Watch for Matilda and just discovered that JZ has never seen the last episodes of S2.

Anyway, it's still good all the way through.

I guess we'll go right to Wonderfalls after this.


Laura - Feb 26, 2022 6:09:45 pm PST #13430 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Oh I really loved Pushing Daisies and there were a number of episodes I never did see. Hmmm.

Went looking at marinas tonight, but everything everywhere here is super crowded as some spring break people are already here and the general seasonal people are all here. Still it has been a lovely night with perfect temperatures and lovely sea breezes.


DavidS - Feb 26, 2022 6:19:24 pm PST #13431 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Oh I really loved Pushing Daisies and there were a number of episodes I never did see. Hmmm.

When Emmett and I watched Guardians of the Galaxy for the first time I nudged him when Ronan The Conqueror showed up:

"That's the guy from Pushing Daisies."
"That's the Piemaker?!!!"


Steph L. - Feb 26, 2022 6:23:39 pm PST #13432 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I nudged him when Ronan The Conqueror showed up

I'm sure it's nice to have an MCU role on his CV (and a Marvel paycheck), but man, Ronan is such a goddamn thankless role. And Lee Pace is so pretty, it's a shame to cover that up with makeup.


Calli - Feb 26, 2022 6:46:55 pm PST #13433 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I much prefer watching Pace munch on the scenery as Thranduil (a role that is perfect for scenery chomping). [link]


Steph L. - Feb 26, 2022 6:54:15 pm PST #13434 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I much prefer watching Pace munch on the scenery as Thranduil

So pretty!


JZ - Feb 26, 2022 7:26:23 pm PST #13435 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Today I've been called a virtue-signaling c**t, a libtard and someone who needs help with words of two or more syllables, but on balance today was still an okay day, because I got to house-sit our next-door neighbor's cat Jameson, who is a lovely tuxedo boy with spats on his back feet and three white toes up front, who was generous with headbutts and purrs you could hear from across the room.

Of course, now that I've written that out I'm suffering spasms of shame because people in Ukraine are fleeing their homes and blowing up bridges and hiding in subways and who TF am I to feel happy because a cat headbutted me. But I'm kind of hanging by a thread lately anyway, so I need these headbutts.


meara - Feb 27, 2022 2:30:50 am PST #13436 of 30000

It’s ok JZ. Sounds like a very good cat. Everyone can use some of that.

Meanwhile my dog is NOT on the very good boy list at the moment. I took him for a v short walk at like 945pm and then we went to bed. At 1230 he woke me up to go out, and I was all fine, whatever, maybe he needed to poo. Tossed a bit but eventually fell back asleep and was having weird dreams…and he woke me up again at 230 to go out again! And now I feel pretty awake. And of course none of this compares to fleeing your home or sheltering in a subway station or being a trans kid in Texas. But I feel like on a macro level I’m aware of my privileges for sure….and it’s still 230am and I’m awake ;)