Giles: Helping out with the dishes makes me feel useful. Dawn: Wanna clean out the garage with us Saturday? You could feel indispensable.

'Dirty Girls'


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.


erikaj - Sep 23, 2023 12:16:11 pm PDT #25598 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!

I've always been a little wistful at not being included in that, but in another way, besides my not being noticeable, it makes sense. Maybe it's more like "If I'm at your door, you know why." Those guys don't get to talk a lot about what they do, either.


Beverly - Sep 23, 2023 5:16:21 pm PDT #25599 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I loved that on first reading, and I love it still. Thank you for sharing it again with us.


DebetEsse - Sep 23, 2023 5:57:47 pm PDT #25600 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Smonster, I think maybe you forgot the idiomatic use of "X likes carrots"


EpicTangent - Sep 24, 2023 1:03:37 am PDT #25601 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Smonster, I think maybe you forgot the idiomatic use of "X likes carrots"

So sad when they begin to forget the culture/language of their youth...


msbelle - Sep 24, 2023 5:06:51 am PDT #25602 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Day 2 of Ophelia rain. No damage, but the ground is saturated now, so good chance I’ll have some water in basement today.

Hope everyone has a good Sunday.


Laura - Sep 24, 2023 5:10:57 am PDT #25603 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Ugh, msbelle. Do you have a sump pump? I hate the smell of a wet basement.


askye - Sep 24, 2023 7:31:05 am PDT #25604 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

David I think about that description of the Buffistas all the time and could never remember where it came from. Just thr first sentences because my memory is terrible ...but of course JZ wrote that it's so much her voice. The way she described Matilda's first week from the Facebook post.


sj - Sep 24, 2023 8:33:28 am PDT #25605 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I took smonsters carrot response to be tongue in cheek.

Oppenheimer felt as long as it was. The acting was great, and I feel like I learned a little bit more than I did before about how the bomb worked. We had a cheap and cheerful dinner at a pizza place. I’m headed back to Mom’s to pick up ltc in a bit, and she is cooking dinner for us. So, a very good weekend.


Laura - Sep 24, 2023 9:02:44 am PDT #25606 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Sounds like a delightful weekend!


DavidS - Sep 24, 2023 10:17:46 am PDT #25607 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I got to see JenK yesterday for dinner. She was attending to her mom who had surgery up at UCSF, so we scampered off to Nopalito after.

She regaled me with all sea creatures she and Matt had seen on their scuba trip in Malaysia, including a Blue Ringed Octopus (very rare and very poisonous).

Matilda was hanging out with her friends Iris and Melia, who lives a few blocks away. Because of the proximity I let her stay later but when she walked home at midnight, I sat on the stoop awaiting her. It's a pretty safe neighborhood (USF is nearby so lots of college students still walking out late), but you're never really comfortable with your teenage daughter walking around after dark in the City.