Hey, don't worry about it. Nest full of vampires, you come get me, okay. Box full of puppies, that's more of a judgement call.

Jonathan ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'


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.


smonster - Aug 29, 2023 2:56:55 pm PDT #24616 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

David, that is truly lovely.

You start an improv game with a brilliant, cute, hilarious, stylish girl and you do it for twenty years and it'll spoil you for playing with anybody else.

I mean, hell yes. I love that you had twenty and I hate that you didn’t have more.


erikaj - Aug 29, 2023 2:59:16 pm PDT #24617 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!

Totally. I've *been* envious, but that's confusing in this exact instant.


javachik - Aug 29, 2023 3:03:36 pm PDT #24618 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Yeah, David, even in her pain and morphines state, she managed a real glint in her eye when she talked about wanting to haunt you!!


Sheryl - Aug 29, 2023 3:04:31 pm PDT #24619 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Happy birthday meara and Jen K!

That sounds like a lovely idea, David.


erikaj - Aug 29, 2023 3:09:57 pm PDT #24620 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!

Happy birthday, Meara and Jen.


JenP - Aug 29, 2023 3:13:42 pm PDT #24621 of 30000

That is beautiful, David.


P.M. Marc - Aug 29, 2023 3:24:02 pm PDT #24622 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

It made me happy to think that according to Einstein she will have always been in this house and would always will be here. That it's only because I'm limited by human senses that I can only see forward on the timeline, only the cusp of time arriving and not backwards that I can't see her. But she's here. And we are here.

I love this a lot.

And the Haunting of [Zmayehm Housenumber Street Name] is the good kind of haunting, like a melody instead of, you know, a massacre.


Sophia Brooks - Aug 29, 2023 3:26:15 pm PDT #24623 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I will not be okay in the sense that living with Jacqueline is an irreplaceable gift, that we are fully woven together, warp and woof, in a complex tapestry composed entirely of amusements and jokes and riffs and play. That this tapestry will be cut from the loom and the ends tied off and it will no longer be in the making but a finished thing. A beautiful piece but done, no longer in the act of creation.

This is so well said. You are in my thoughts all day. I hope you see this as a place you can express your grief and you’re not OKness. One of the beauties of this community is that I think we can be and show our real selves and I appreciate you sharing your real self

To hell with that no crying crap. I want people bawling their eyes out at my sendoff. There'll be plenty of good food, and stories and laughing are also encouraged, but tears are mandatory.

Well, that made me wail. Full on ugly cry.

hen I thought, I could get a beautiful funerary urn. Something Art Nouveau, or Arts and Crafts movement, and I could put the urn on her desk in the attic. And if people wanted to be with her they wouldn't have to go to a graveyard they could go sit at her desk.

And I thought, I could have a stack of post cards there and people could write a note to her. That would be a good way to be with her.

It made me happy to think that according to Einstein she will have always been in this house and would always will be here. That it's only because I'm limited by human senses that I can only see forward on the timeline, only the cusp of time arriving and not backwards that I can't see her. But she's here. And we are here.

I think this is perfect. One of the places my anger is focused is that JZ had so little time to enjoy this more comfortable phase of life. I like the thought of her being there.

I also mini-mearad on my phone, which is quite a feat for me.


erikaj - Aug 29, 2023 3:37:07 pm PDT #24624 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!

The other day, I found a conversation we had about HIMYM and how quickly Ted moved on, that, in this new context, threatened to make me at least half a mess.


DavidS - Aug 29, 2023 3:48:25 pm PDT #24625 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Art Nouveau Cookie jar is appealing as a final resting place: [link]