Saffron: But we've been wed. Aren't we to become one flesh? Mal: Well, no, uh... We're still two fleshes here, and I think that your flesh ought to sleep somewhere else.

'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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 - Dec 26, 2023 4:08:28 pm PST #27657 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 Jesse!

Happy Birthday Theo!

Happy Birthday Rayne!


msbelle - Dec 26, 2023 4:21:09 pm PST #27658 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Happy Birthdays!!!!


msbelle - Dec 26, 2023 4:25:51 pm PST #27659 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Re: vacations

Does anyone have hotel recs for Paris? Safe, inexpensive, close to metro would be ideal.


smonster - Dec 26, 2023 4:34:47 pm PST #27660 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

(Though Matilda's first comment after the movie was, "Dammit! Why is every story a dead mom story!")

Yeah, sometimes when you don’t expect it at all.

Laura, I know COVID isn’t restful. Being sick never really is. At any rate… I have the flu. Came home early from work, fever now 101.1. Most of the classic symptoms. I just got my flu shot a week ago Friday, here’s hoping it helps at least a little.


Karl - Dec 26, 2023 6:37:55 pm PST #27661 of 30000
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.

msbelle, I stayed at the Hôtel Saint-Marc – 36 Rue Saint-Marc, 75002 Paris -- in late October of 2017, so pre-pandemic. It's a pretty short walk from Opéra station -- 600m or so along Boulevard des Italiens.


msbelle - Dec 26, 2023 7:22:56 pm PST #27662 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Thanks Karl!


Laura - Dec 27, 2023 5:41:09 am PST #27663 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Sending happy birthday wishes to Amyparker today! I do hope that it is a day filled with treats and that the year to come is joyful.

Another cause for celebration, a negative Covid test this morning. I still have a cough and my belly is fragile, but still happy to see this.


brenda m - Dec 27, 2023 7:14:15 am PST #27664 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

Good news Laura! Hopefully you, Tep, smonster and everyone else feeling poorly are on the mend and recovering quickly.


DavidS - Dec 27, 2023 8:40:13 am PST #27665 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Happy birthday, Amyparker!

Good news Laura! Hopefully you, Tep, smonster and everyone else feeling poorly are on the mend and recovering quickly.

Yes, a round of good health for my friends, bartender.

I spent a good chunk of yesterday cleaning up the kitchen from xmas eve dinner. At one point the most expedient way to clean out the roasting pan, which was thoroughly and thickly covered in grease, was to drench it in Dawn and wash it in the bathtub.

I have mostly gotten the house back into some kind of order and starting to work my way through the laundry.

Matilda's godmother, Marta, will be coming by later and we'll do lunch with her and maybe make a boef bourguignon.

eta: I think I need a cleaning service. Something JZ and I had discussed before, but now that it all falls to me (with some bits of help form Matilda), it's onerous and I'm no good at dusting anyway.


Pix - Dec 27, 2023 9:03:18 am PST #27666 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Dad is in the ER again. His friend found him not able to walk because of extreme vertigo and he was confused because he apparently didn't take his meds or eat much for three days. So ND is dropping me off at the airport as I type this. Back to Florida I go.