It was absolutely delightful. Hot sun, cool breeze, and calm lake. Tonight we have great nephew's first soccer match of the season. Then this weekend the annual Fire Department Steak Bake fundraiser. Big event with tons of raffle items, music, food, booze, and frivolity. End of season activities.
Spike: You pissed in the Big Man's Chair? That's fantastic! Gunn: Spike, can you please turn off that warm fuzzy? Spike: What, the Lorne thing? Worn off. I just think that's bloody fabulous.
'Life of the Party'
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.
Laura - Sep 04, 2026 12:16:11 pm PDT #13832 of 13838
Our wings are not tired.
Laura - Sep 04, 2026 12:25:09 pm PDT #13833 of 13838
Our wings are not tired.
From Press, yes I see that Bridget has passed. I shared a seat with her on a bus ride to something at the SF F2F. This is very sad news. Too young.
erikaj - Sep 04, 2026 12:35:29 pm PDT #13834 of 13838
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
I hate that being honest about, like, my disabled life or what's really wrong with the safety net(Social workers aren't protective the way people imagine, in my experience, at least) make abled women strangers bust out the sad emojis. (I mean. I guess it is sort of sad, some people really do need that sort of protection and support, and they don't get it either, but for me, it's like "Wow, let's get a time machine and warn President Gore that sometimes these people are just neurotic, paper-pushing pinheads." It's hard enough to face these things yourself without having to cope with the end of their "America leaves nobody behind," illusions, too. (Not that I posted the pinhead assessment on an acquaintance's page, or anything. And I am sorry that the person handling my file is, well, not someone I'd call with any other option, ever. But it doesn't help to have a stranger feel sad about it.)
DavidS - Sep 04, 2026 1:14:56 pm PDT #13835 of 13838
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oh, that's very sad about Bridget. I saw her fairly often over the years as she would come in to SF from Sacramento. Though I don't know that I've seen her since the pandemic.
When I worked downtown we'd have lunch when she came into The City.
That's so young to die by a stroke.
-t - Sep 04, 2026 1:41:26 pm PDT #13836 of 13838
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I've barely seen her in person, just at the F2F I think, and I don't think I even posted with her much here, somehow, but we got to be pretty friendly on FB. Shocked and sad.
Trudy Booth - Sep 04, 2026 2:01:18 pm PDT #13837 of 13838
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Aw man. Bridget.
It was nearly a week later, and she was far too young - but there goes our third fabulous soul.
I once asked her why she'd moved to Minneapolis. She said that when you grow up in North (iirc) Dakota, that's the big city. It was a perspective I'd never considered before. Then she went on to San Francisco, then Sacramento. She took the world by leaps and bounds.
erikaj - Sep 04, 2026 2:19:53 pm PDT #13838 of 13838
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
I'm sorry to hear that. Although I can't say that being in this world right now feels like such a bonus, but she won't get to see if we make it better, either--the loss of possibility is also part of what's hard, right? And I know one day I'll be looking for her thoughts on my socials and have to relearn this all over again.