Zoe: Nobody's saying that, sir. Wash: Yeah, we're pretty much just giving each other significant glances and laughing incessantly.

'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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.


-t - Oct 13, 2022 7:06:44 am PDT #17964 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Happy birthday Matt!


lisah - Oct 13, 2022 8:02:01 am PDT #17965 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate

Happy birthday, Matt!!


askye - Oct 13, 2022 8:02:06 am PDT #17966 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

Matt I don't think that Alex Jones did anything criminal with the attempt at bankruptcy in Texas. I know that it was dismissed

But last month a judge barred a lawyer and the chief restructuring officer for Free Speech Systems from working the bankruptcy. There was conflict of interest and then the judge deemed that the CRO was deferring to Jones and the other companies instead of just looking out for FSS. The judge also ordered an independent trustee to be involved and Jones just picked a new restructuring officer the beginning of October and that person has been approved by everyone. I'm not sure if there is a new lawyer, the article from late Sept said there was only someone who agreed to serve as co counsel but since everything is moving forward I guess they did.

And I saw Marjorie Taylor Greene was defending Jones and then saying this was political persecution and trampling over his free speech...which really isn't surprising that the extremists are defending Jones.


askye - Oct 13, 2022 8:02:24 am PDT #17967 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

Happy Birthday Matt!!


JenP - Oct 13, 2022 9:30:28 am PDT #17968 of 30000

Garbage humans defending garbage humans for their garbage reasons.


-t - Oct 13, 2022 9:44:47 am PDT #17969 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I have no doubt, personally, that he's got all kinds of fraud going on and I would really like to see him jailed for that and all his worldly goods going to pay damages

In lighter news, I forgot that I prefer Peet's pumpkin spice coffee to Starbuck's. No Peet's drive thrus convenient to me, alas, but I splurged on some k-cups for the office and it's very nice (although it pains me a little to be paying for my own coffee to drink in the office)


Steph L. - Oct 13, 2022 9:51:23 am PDT #17970 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Happy Birthday, Matt!

I am about the furthest thing from a crafter that a person could possibly be, but I ordered a kit to crochet an amigurumi penguin anyway. We'll see how it goes. (It was delivered today, and Tim took it and inspected it to make sure all the parts were included, so I think I can definitively say he's on the mend.)


-t - Oct 13, 2022 10:42:37 am PDT #17971 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Aw, crocheted penguin!


Trudy Booth - Oct 13, 2022 11:40:01 am PDT #17972 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Last night I went to Trader Joe's and committed Pumpkin Palooza. Old favorites include cream cheese, ice cream, and coffee. Among new items we have two soups, a pasta sauce, a braising sauce, vingegar, yogurt, blondies and an aray of cookies. The one thing I wanted and missed was pumpkin madelines because c'MON.

Then I totally partied and took my COVID-recovering butt home in a cab 'cuz that shit was heavy.


Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 13, 2022 11:55:40 am PDT #17973 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Thanks for all the birthday wishes, gang!

It is unfortunately a working birthday; I felt taking it off at the end of a week-long vacation when I have deadlines already being moved back would be a bit too much. But I'm treating myself to a viewing of Bros tonight, then going out for my birthday dinner with Mom tomorrow.