Today is being a Monday. Working on catching up on things after a weekend visiting K's family in Tucson. I teach my class at UCI in 30 minutes. Thankfully that's a fully remote class now so I don't have to commute to the other side of the city to do it.
Angel: You know, I killed my actual dad. It was one of the first things I did when I became a vampire. Wesley: I hardly see how that's the same situation. Angel: Yeah. I didn't really think that one through.
'Lineage'
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.
NoiseDesign - May 08, 2023 12:27:13 pm PDT #22123 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
Steph L. - May 08, 2023 12:38:59 pm PDT #22124 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
The group chat with my college roommates informed me today that we graduated sometime in the second week of May (no one remembers the exact date) THIRTY YEARS AGO. We are all appalled.
shrift - May 08, 2023 2:02:20 pm PDT #22125 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Steph, I feel like the group chat should have waited until happy hour to spring that news upon you.
Steph L. - May 08, 2023 2:08:55 pm PDT #22126 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Right? I replied "I feel personally attacked," and one of my roommates said, "This feels like age discrimination."
Trudy Booth - May 08, 2023 2:19:43 pm PDT #22127 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
There’s a guy here at the bar with a man-bun, a pencil mustache, several gold chains, and an ascot. I don’t know what to make of it.The biggest weirdo in your bar had better watch his back. When you come at the king…
Cashmere - May 08, 2023 2:58:46 pm PDT #22128 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Emmett is deeply into Rothfuss right now.
He lives in my town. You know he's never going to finish that series.
I read David Morrell's Murder as a Fine Art (Thomas de Quincey mysteries). And now I have to read Confessions of an English Opium Eater. I'm headed down the historical murder mysteries rabbit hole.
After waiting FOUR FUCKING MONTHS for an appointment with a pediatric endocrinologist who can prescribe Oliver's testosterone, and after jumping through the therapy, letter and paperwork hoops, the doctor cancels THIS MORNING. Less than 3 hours before the appointment. No idea when another one can be scheduled.
-t - May 08, 2023 3:05:02 pm PDT #22129 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ugh on the cancellation, Cashmere. How awful!
Trying to remember why Murder as a Fine Art floated into my consciousness recently. It's ringing a bell but not bringing up any attached information...
erikaj - May 08, 2023 3:27:38 pm PDT #22130 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
I know everyone on Earth is more organized than I am(with the possible exception of my new attendant and her family, which might be a separate rant sometime, but not right now) but i could really do without being part of formal meetings with agendas and dots like the commander likes, especially I don't know why "Introductions' and "adjournment" are always included like those are mysterious parts.
brenda m - May 08, 2023 6:54:11 pm PDT #22131 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
dots like the commander likes
<3
DavidS - May 08, 2023 7:10:36 pm PDT #22132 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You know he's never going to finish that series.
This was actually a source of much discussion at Borderlands (SF/Fantasy/Horror/Mystery) bookstore. Certain staff won't rec Rothfuss because they believe he won't finish the series, and others will say the published work is too good to miss.
It's funny how people will get stalled by the fear of failure, or I guess more accurately, the pressure of early success.
George R. R. Martin being the most infamous example, but in rock history it happened with the Stone Roses and The Las. Perfect first albums created unbearable expectations about their next work and so...they just flailed and fell apart.
Here's where I think Prince was genius to follow up Purple Rain with Around the World In A Day. It was a total left field move to use his newfound leverage to do a psychedelic influenced album. It did have two huge singles in "Raspberry Beret" and "Pop Life."
And he followed it up with Parade which (people forget) was the soundtrack to Under the Cherry Moon (a spectacular flop), and nobody cares because "Kiss."