This football game is going to give me a heart attack.
No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
Steph L. - Dec 28, 2024 4:58:50 pm PST #4221 of 5083
I look more rad than Lutheranism
quester - Dec 28, 2024 9:27:49 pm PST #4222 of 5083
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Happy birthday wishes being sent out today to Quester and Emily! I hope you are being spoiled today and that the following year will be filled with happy surprises.
Thank you, Laura. I got taken to a movie (my first in - theater since the lockdown) and then dinner. very nice.
Karl - Dec 29, 2024 1:56:51 pm PST #4223 of 5083
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.
Jimmy Carter has left us. I knew it was coming, and I knew he was ready. But, as the lady said, it's always sudden.
Ave atque vale, Mr. President. We shall not see your like again.
Theodosia - Dec 29, 2024 3:21:25 pm PST #4224 of 5083
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'm just so sorry that he didn't get to see Trump defeated or in jail.
I just heard that my most favorite college roommate's SO died from an aneurysm on Christmas, in her arms. Man, it kind of sucks to get this old, because people I've known for 40, nearly 50 years are dying or losing dear ones on a regular basis now.
DavidS - Dec 29, 2024 3:47:35 pm PST #4225 of 5083
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Man, it kind of sucks to get this old, because people I've known for 40, nearly 50 years are dying or losing dear ones on a regular basis now.
Yup. Matilda and I attended a memorial on the 21st, and my friend Josh is nearing the end after 5+ years of cancer treatment.
erikaj - Dec 29, 2024 4:02:16 pm PST #4226 of 5083
Always Anti-fascist!
It would be terrific if the people who lost their elections this year made the kinds of contributions Carter did. That's kind of pressure, though. But an excellent standard. I think, since I'm disabled and all, I've struggled with survivors' guilt(or hell, something related...I'm no clinician, despite my most orthodox intentions starting college) since I was about ten. But I always had too much to do in therapy and elsewhere to open that particular dark little box.(I'm sure having to stay in the invisible caste labeled Lying Liars Who Lie helped a ton, though--thanks so much, America.)
Cashmere - Dec 29, 2024 10:26:07 pm PST #4227 of 5083
Now tagless for your comfort.
Is it petty to hope the Carter family bans Trump from the funeral?
He was such a good man. Not a great president, but honest, and he tried. Certainly the best human being that held the office.
DavidS - Dec 30, 2024 10:00:05 am PST #4228 of 5083
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Welcome to the next to last day of 2024.
My life has become such a blur of Highly Eventful Things and Unchanging Things that it's become hard for me to keep track of the years lately. So I've taken to labeling them in my head to keep track.
2024: Grief Year (Full of War and Trump)
2023: Cancer Year
2022: The Wonderful Year (when we bought the house and moved in)
2021: Half locked down, transitioning to open (and hope)
2020: COVID / Lockdown
2019: Before Times
2018: Before Times
2017: Before Times...
2016: Bowie and Prince die, everything goes to shit
Vortex - Dec 30, 2024 10:12:50 am PST #4229 of 5083
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
If anyone has ~ma to spare, could use it at 1:15 EST (like 5 mins) for a convo with my boss. No job worries, but possible good thing.
erikaj - Dec 30, 2024 11:35:36 am PST #4230 of 5083
Always Anti-fascist!
I think maybe the electoral system held Carter back.(Don't you wish that we could say "At least it's better now," when you had thoughts like that--I sure do!) but enough about work. also, the clubby congressional bullshit, Ie, Carlin's "big club, and you ain't in it." Jimmy wasn't in, either.) I know we don't usually do that, but, and not only because I'm not sure what to say(Because I'm not...next year will probably mean another round of Austerity Shit Sandwiches for me, even if I were crazy enough to think I could plan something else...which I tend not to do anymore.) But, all that said, doesn't take away from the love when I {{{Hecubus}}} Vortex, all the --ma. Best of luck.