Now, I can hold a note for a long time...actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.

Host ,'Why We Fight'


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.


Laura - Dec 26, 2022 7:48:50 am PST #19475 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

I'm late to the party! Blame it on the carb coma from yesterday.

Happiest birthday wishes to Jesse! I hope you are spoiled today, as you deserve, and that the year to come is filled with unanticipated delights!

Now I have to scroll back and catch up...


Laura - Dec 26, 2022 7:54:22 am PST #19476 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Happy birthday wishes to Theodosia! I hope the day is joyful and that the year to come brings all good things!


SuziQ - Dec 26, 2022 8:03:23 am PST #19477 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Merry Christmas, a touch late. Ma~ to all in need and I saw that congrats are due to Jess. Happy Birthday Theodosia!


Steph L. - Dec 26, 2022 8:14:56 am PST #19478 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Happy Birthday Theodosia!

Happy Birthday Jesse! I hope you don't get Covid (hey, a person can dream).

I lurked for a while, jotting post numbers on scrap paper so I could find my place in threads

I did the same thing!


JZ - Dec 26, 2022 8:38:30 am PST #19479 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.

I lurked for a very long time and when I finally delurked my first tagline was sophia talking about the wolf pack: “I was surprised when they ate the pig, but I was SHOCKED when they ate the principal.”


Jesse - Dec 26, 2022 8:39:25 am PST #19480 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Happy birthday, Theo!

I hope you don't get Covid (hey, a person can dream).

It is true she's been sick since last Tuesday (tested neg on Tues, didn't test again until Friday), and I'm ok so far, so maybe I really am magically immune???


Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 26, 2022 8:40:19 am PST #19481 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

Happy Birthday Theodosia!

Happy Birthday Jesse!


Laura - Dec 26, 2022 8:54:38 am PST #19482 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Enjoyed the various trips down memory lane posts. I joined shortly after 9/11 when I was seeking distraction on the internet. No lurking, because I didn't know any better! I found Spike's Bitches first and didn't venture into Natter because it was too fast and I couldn't keep up at all.

Hell’s bells, Cass, I’m about ready to crawl out of my sickbed and strangle your S-I-L myself. WTF is wrong with her?

Seriously, I'll volunteer to hold her down.

Christmas was a lot of food!! Way too much food. My SIL has a nail salon and brought too many fancy treats that clients had left for them. Just exhausted today.


SuziQ - Dec 26, 2022 9:13:09 am PST #19483 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Merry Christmas, a touch late. Ma~ to all in need and I saw that congrats are due to Jess. Happy Birthday Theodosia!


aurelia - Dec 26, 2022 9:14:05 am PST #19484 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

maybe I really am magically immune???

Here's hoping.

On Christmas Eve my grandmother (and all the neighbors in her wing) had to be evacuated from their apartments because of a burst sprinkler pipe. It sounds like her place got the worst of it. My uncle showed up to visit during the chaos and took her home with him. So she is clothed, fed, and cared for by family, but I'm sure she feels hopeless and helpless. She couldn't keep any food down that night.

I haven't heard any updates since then, but my uncle had been in contact with the building manager and I think my brother is going to call my uncle and see if he can get in to try to salvage photos and her genealogy files. We're concerned that any remediation company will just throw everything in a dumpster.