I’m going to my first real estate open house tomorrow. I don’t know if it’s my dream home, but it’s sort of what I’m looking for and in my price range. [link]
Cute place! Love the porch.
Marco: Do we look reasonable to you? Mal: Well. Looks can be deceiving. Jayne: Not as deceiving as a low down dirty... deceiver.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
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.
DavidS - Aug 15, 2026 4:39:13 pm PDT #13577 of 13580
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
erikaj - Aug 15, 2026 4:54:56 pm PDT #13578 of 13580
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
Maybe you could call it back-door if you hurt your glutes. Also, no fair--I've been waiting on my defective close-up a lot longer than you!(Maybe, as a woman, I could work in your room and be a Two-Fer like the guy on 30 Rock--which I can't believe I'm quoting/ referencing because I didn't find it funny all that often.) Somewhere between my sense of humor being genuinely weird and kind of evil and nothing being quite so funny as a super-fan thinks when they're all "OMG, you'll *die*." ETA: Doesn't change the fact that I'm at least a Two-Fer. Maybe another half because some douche online could call me Pocahontas--though probably not *twice*
erikaj - Aug 15, 2026 5:19:57 pm PDT #13579 of 13580
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
For the record, I've never "checked a box" about that, ever. And the connection is close enough I've always felt a little weird about *not* doing it. I'm not embarrassed, right? But it is only a little, and I wouldn't be saying it because I need anything. (And my grandfather? Kind of the self-hating mixed-breed from the Western...definite proof that I'm not adopted, even though I don't work my shit out by spreading slurs around--he died when I was nine, but the older I get, I *do* feel some commonality there, even though I don't drink and I can't allay people's suspicions by saying I'm Italian. Hard-fought education didn't save him, either, you know?(of all the threads through the generations. Sigh.) By the time I knew him, though, he had a recognizably Native face there was no hiding from(and the person in pop culture that made me think of him, outside of the dad in Smoke Signals, used to be Muhammed Ali, of all people--I was a little kid and he was big, brown, Southern and around a lot.
erikaj - Aug 15, 2026 5:31:21 pm PDT #13580 of 13580
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
But saying that as a little blonde girl in a wheelchair was a way to make my special *teachers* think I was weird, too. Not just the kids. But you really don't know what everyone's grandpa looks like from what they look like.(And it wasn't "My god, twins," just that, to my unformed brain. they shared a vibe or something. And Grandpa *had* been a prizefighter as a young man...he just kind of wasn't good at it. Probably got just the pain and head injuries.)