Mal: You are very much lacking in imagination. Zoe: I imagine that's so, sir.

'Out Of Gas'


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.


Shir - Mar 21, 2024 9:10:54 am PDT #29283 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

And in a separate post: she does not have the time to check the board these days, but I wanted to let you all know that Nilly's eldest will have his Bar Mitzvah soon. He'll be reading Book of Esther this Sunday/Monday.

It's an extra joy to bring good news to this board, after announcing mostly bad news in the past six months.


DavidS - Mar 21, 2024 9:17:23 am PDT #29284 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

And in a separate post: she does not have the time to check the board these days, but I wanted to let you all know that Nilly's eldest will have his Bar Mitzvah soon. He'll be reading Book of Esther this Sunday/Monday.

Bar Mitzvah is exciting, but wait until he turns 17!!


-t - Mar 21, 2024 9:32:29 am PDT #29285 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, wow, passage of time. Book of Esther seems like a pretty sweet portion for a Bar Mitzvah!


Dana - Mar 21, 2024 9:49:47 am PDT #29286 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

I made too much muffin mix (don't ask), and I think I'm going to try it out in my new bundt cake pan.


Laura - Mar 21, 2024 10:08:03 am PDT #29287 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

It is good to read that there is some normalcy in Nilly's life.

Also, of course I want to know about the excess muffin mix.


lisah - Mar 21, 2024 10:19:29 am PDT #29288 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate

Oh, Steph, so sorry to hear about your brother and I’d be mad at him for lying too and for not being the sibling you need to deal with the shit happening with your dad right now.


Dana - Mar 21, 2024 10:45:27 am PDT #29289 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Also, of course I want to know about the excess muffin mix.

I SAID not to ask.

The recipe didn't have a yield and I just follow instructions without any actual thought behind it, so it was only as I was spooning mix into the muffin tin that I went, "....wait, that's a lot."


meara - Mar 21, 2024 10:59:36 am PDT #29290 of 30000

Yum, muffins!

All the congratulations to Nilly’s son! I hope it goes amazing.


P.M. Marc - Mar 21, 2024 11:58:29 am PDT #29291 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

How is he old enough for that? Unpossible! (Though Squeak turns nineteen in three weeks. So.)

I've been stress shopping lately and justifying it as dressing appropriately for JZ for her memorial. It's somehow both sad and enjoyable, and it sure as hell beats dealing with the clusterfuck that is my family. (Which is a huge, huge, huge clusterfuck, and I might need to pay my parents' property taxes for them, and man, it would be great if they could be in assisted living, but we'd have to sell their house for that, and then where would my siblings who cannot work go? AHAHAHAHA. FML.)


Jesse - Mar 21, 2024 11:59:54 am PDT #29292 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ugh, Steph, I'm sorry to hear about your brother and glad to hear about your therapist!

Nilly's eldest will have his Bar Mitzvah soon. He'll be reading Book of Esther this Sunday/Monday.

Oh wow, mazel tov to him! (And his parents, I am sure.)

The recipe didn't have a yield and I just follow instructions without any actual thought behind it, so it was only as I was spooning mix into the muffin tin that I went, "....wait, that's a lot."

Oh yeah, that's how I ended up making one million mini-cupcakes from a cake recipe.