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'


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.


JenP - Nov 22, 2022 12:36:14 pm PST #18753 of 30000

Sending all the tumor shrinkage ~ma your way, Epic. And general recovery ~ma to you.


NoiseDesign - Nov 22, 2022 2:43:48 pm PST #18754 of 30000
Our wings are not tired

We always make enough food and folks bring enough food that everyone goes home with food, and we also have leftovers for a few days.


Beverly - Nov 22, 2022 2:55:17 pm PST #18755 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I love the idea of "food swap at Drew and Kristin's!" Nobody goes home with the food they brung.


Sheryl - Nov 22, 2022 3:01:11 pm PST #18756 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

I am so tired of "Big City Greens". (Mr. S has been watching it a lot the last few days)


DavidS - Nov 22, 2022 3:20:10 pm PST #18757 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Wishing you all the "Honey, we shrunk the tumor!" -ma, Epic! I'm so glad you've completed your course of therapies. It's been a long haul.


Cass - Nov 22, 2022 3:20:34 pm PST #18758 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

All the tumor shrinkage ~ma, Epic. And speedy recovery. That tumor needs to be in a glass jar somewhere or an incinerator. Outta you.


Steph L. - Nov 22, 2022 3:35:59 pm PST #18759 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Lots of tumor-shrinky~ma for you, Epic!!!

Relevant to the earlier conversation, my mom texted me earlier to say "Don't forget to bring freeloader Tupperware." (As if I *want* leftover Tofurkey.) (Like, Tofurkey is fine, and I do know that when I go to my mom and stepdad's house for Thanksgiving, Tofurkey is on the menu, and I'll eat it. But it makes Tim very happy, and I do love that.) (But when I eat my leftovers at home, it will be with real bird.) (Just chicken. I'm not buying a turkey for leftovers.)


sj - Nov 22, 2022 4:03:05 pm PST #18760 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Kate, I’m so very sorry for your loss. Love to you and your family. How are the girls handling it?

We keep cheap plastic containers for whenever we have guests over because they’re required to take food home. I always make way too much food. Speaking of which our Thanksgiving plans fell through so now we’re staying home and I’m cooking enough food for at least a dozen people for just the three of us.

My great-uncle is still in the hospital and is headed to rehab after that. I spoke to my great-aunt the other day, and she’s not holding out much hope that he’ll be able to return home. I feel terrible for her. They’ve been together for something like 70 years.


Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 23, 2022 7:43:44 am PST #18761 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

May your tumor be withered away to an easily handled size, Epic!

I just found out that my cousin who hosts the family Christmas/Hanukkah/Winter Solstice get-together is making it an ugly sweater party. I don't wear sweaters, so unless I can fit into the referee's sweater I bought for Halloween in the 90s I'm going to have to decline participation while attending.


Calli - Nov 23, 2022 7:47:27 am PST #18762 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Shrinkage~ma, Epic!

One of my coworkers planned a World Cup viewing on the office big screen throughout the tournament. I should have checked to make sure that they included the day before Thanksgiving, because I am sitting in a conference room alone, with a blank screen (the coworker was bringing his Roku). It's a comfortable space and a pretty day for a drive. And I don't mind getting out of the apartment before two days that will be very "do things in the apartment"-centric. But I am a little disappointed that one of my rare sports-bonding impulses is going unrewarded. Oh well, there's worse that happens on a Wednesday.