Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.

Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'


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.


meara - Sep 23, 2024 12:44:43 pm PDT #2682 of 14474

I like pozole, but would never have thought to put it on fries? I do now really want lunch...

I am being driven round by bureaucracy....my doc was willing to write an rx for the new cash pay for zepbound, since I'm no longer on a trial of a new med, and I've gained 15 pounds in the two months since I had the meds (BOO). So she tried, but couldnt' figure out how. I went home, and figured out a way for her to do it, by adding the required pharmacy (it has to go through their special pharmacy to be the less expensive stuff, I can't afford $1000 a month!). She sent it. I haven't heard from them, so tried to contact them today. They said they never received it. I can see it in the system, it looks to me like it was sent and required the info (and they said they didn't even have it in a "this is rejected because XYZ" list) so I don't know where to go from there! I just want to stop constantly wanting food....and want to not buy another whole wardrobe.


erikaj - Sep 23, 2024 1:42:36 pm PDT #2683 of 14474
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal

I'm over that in a lot of ways, though I have talked a lot of trash on the subject over the years. Especially after a few years went by and he tried to *friend me on Facebook* and get me to come to his virtual launch and all that jazz. Like, okay, I was enough of a sucker to buy in a bit, and you didn't rip me, personally, off intellectually(God help him if he had, for the record--I'm stubborn, overeducated, and have lots of time free in the afternoons...he would live to hate words like "pro se", but I digress.) but just because I'm not hurt anymore doesn't mean it's like "Oh, you had *me* going," and we hang out now, you arrogant moron. I mean, I did think I was entertaining someone laid up in the hospital some of that time. I was very rude about that request and I regret it less than anything I've ever done.


NoiseDesign - Sep 23, 2024 1:51:49 pm PDT #2684 of 14474
Our wings are not tired

I think I finally have most of Haunt Season up and running, and I think I, along with my team, have survived. Just for posterity, here is what we did this season.

1. Halloween Horror Nights - Universal Studios 2. Delusion 3. Queen Mary - Dark Harbor 4. Fright Fest - Six Flags Magic Mountain 5. Fright Fest - Six Flags Fiesta Texas 6. Fright Fest - Six Flags Over Texas 7. Fright Fest - Six Flags Over Georgia 8. Fright Fest - Six Flags Great Adventure 9. Fright Fest - Six Flags Great America

And then on top of that getting rolling on the rest of our work and rentals.

It has been a total of something like 30 haunted houses in 5 states.

Damn.


Laura - Sep 23, 2024 2:17:15 pm PDT #2685 of 14474
This too shall pass.

I need a nap after reading your post, ND.


dcp - Sep 23, 2024 2:21:08 pm PDT #2686 of 14474
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Now comes the really hard part, collecting payment.


Steph L. - Sep 23, 2024 4:15:37 pm PDT #2687 of 14474
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.

It has been a total of something like 30 haunted houses in 5 states.

Out of context, this line makes you sound like a ghost hunter. I would definitely watch the Drew Hunts Ghosts show.


NoiseDesign - Sep 23, 2024 4:47:07 pm PDT #2688 of 14474
Our wings are not tired

I love the idea of a haunting, but I've been in so many creepy and supposedly haunted spaces with nothing happening that I'm not sure how exciting it would be. I'd be totally down though. I mean I used to spend most of a month wandering around in a cemetery and mausoleum with the power off in the middle of the night by myself to install spooky shit.


meara - Sep 23, 2024 5:38:12 pm PDT #2689 of 14474

That sounds exhausting, Drew!!


meara - Sep 23, 2024 9:54:36 pm PDT #2690 of 14474

Omg y’all. So yesterday I went to my friends’ rec soccer game. First one of the season, lots of folks were there, so multiple people to chat with on sidelines, good time. There was a new player who had just been recruited and was trying it out, who was v hot. I cheered friends on and eventually left. Tonight I go to trivia, and one of my usual teammates (who is not a soccer person) brought a couple friends…one of whom is the hot soccer player (call her L, and the other one K). Who showed up while I was telling the story about the random make out the other weekend (because I hadn’t seen these friends in a couple weeks). A little embarrassing but whatever, I tell my story. We play trivia. L leaves a little early but her friend stays. One of my friends brings up the make out thing and I mention that I found out after that she is a cop, which is not hot. And K goes “wait, is her name [name]??!” And it was. And K explains that L knows her and tried to date her but got ghosted by her! I was laughing my ass off because (a) yes clearly this cop has issues and (b) it is a small fucking gay world.

We got second place which means we get to pick a category for one round next week. We picked “old lesbians”


Laura - Sep 24, 2024 5:44:51 am PDT #2691 of 14474
This too shall pass.

I was laughing my ass off because (a) yes clearly this cop has issues and (b) it is a small fucking gay world.

Yes, on both, and you have things in common with v hot soccer player. Encounter with issued cop girl, and hotness!