You two carried me through that war. Now I need you to carry me just a little bit further. If you can.

Tracy ,'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.


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 24, 2023 7:04:54 am PDT #24357 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

Here's hoping all goes well and you get to take him home soon, Debet!


Jesse - Aug 24, 2023 7:18:26 am PDT #24358 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

We're all pretty ready for Arthur to get to just be a baby and see his mama without a face mask.

That sounds right! Yikes and here's hoping that happens ASAP.

I’m so sorry that the cats you’re getting is so unholistic.

I know this is the curse of autocorrect, but I wish Debet were getting holistic cats!!

Oof re: work situations of meara, flea, atropa, and Susan!

I wonder if he'd say any of those things if I dropped a cartoon anvil on his head.

I am with Dana.


Dana - Aug 24, 2023 7:27:28 am PDT #24359 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Good lord, Debet.

ION, happy Trump mugshot day, everyone! I vote we make it an annual holiday.


DavidS - Aug 24, 2023 9:15:33 am PDT #24360 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Oy, Debet, I remember the brief 5-hour stay that Matilda had to spend in the NICU and it was so very not-restful.

I did use that time to make up a song about her which I had completely forgotten about until this moment.

My little girl
Matilda Azalea
Pretty Little girl who lives by the sea
Smart as a whip, Brave and True
Matilda Azalea, I love you.

Huh. Even remember the melody.

Anyway, I hope you can get away from the NICU and the medicalizing and Arthur can get on with his round tables and round cheeks.


Toddson - Aug 24, 2023 9:25:52 am PDT #24361 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Dana, there have been suggestions for an annual Indictment Day. I'd celebrate that.

There are also betting pools on (1) what the orange one's actual weight (and height) will turn out to be and (2) what shade of orange his mug shot will turn out to be.


Steph L. - Aug 24, 2023 9:28:50 am PDT #24362 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

There are also betting pools on (1) what the orange one's actual weight

This is the one thing about Trump that's nobody's business, as it has no bearing on anything whatsoever.


Dana - Aug 24, 2023 9:31:36 am PDT #24363 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Oooh, what if his face is two different shades of orange?


askye - Aug 24, 2023 9:45:13 am PDT #24364 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

Aunt W passed away yesterday. Mom had gotten a call from the long term care facility that it would happen soon and I thought she had left but she didn't. I don't know when she's goig to go down to Florida but my Aunt's birthday is on Oct 13 and she was born on a Friday and this year Oct 13 is a Friday so they are having her memorial service then.

On the one hand I feel bad that my aunt died alone (although there has been Covid in the facility so she couldn't have had visitors) but I also know that my aunt did a lot to alienate my mom and their other siblings (not just since my cousin died but for a long time) and I'm relived that mom all of this care taking and making financial decisions and paying bills for my aunt is winding down for her.


Steph L. - Aug 24, 2023 9:49:16 am PDT #24365 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Oooh, what if his face is two different shades of orange?

Cheeto and Flamin' Hot Cheeto?

Skye, I'm sorry about your aunt.


smonster - Aug 24, 2023 11:14:17 am PDT #24366 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Love that song, Hec.

Vignettes from life with R: he finally finished his Buffy watch and has restarted. He’s also started Angel. And we’re joining the Buffy subkrewe of the annual geek parade.

Also, last night I asked him if he thought we’d ever get married (he’s already been married twice) and this exchange followed:

R: Only if you ask me!

S: (cackles madly for many seconds, then responds) You know if it happens, I’m going down on one knee.

R: You’d better!!

And then we talked rings and how neither of us want traditional, and how he probably had the supplies to go make me a ring at his house that moment, and we decided to go ring window shopping in the Quarter sometime.

Reader, I think I just might marry him.