Can't drink, smoke, diddle my willy. Doesn't leave much to do other than watch you blokes stumble around playing Agatha Christie.

Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'


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.

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Laura - Aug 05, 2025 1:18:19 pm PDT #8640 of 8643
Our wings are not tired.

DH has some actual good news today in his basketball program. He has been having a tough time with ICE issues. The parents won't let the kids come to practice for fear they will get picked up. Kids worry that when they get home the parents won't be there. A large percentage of his team is Haitian here under TPS, which is ending. Not that it really matters since they will pick them up regardless of status. It is terrifying, and he feels helpless and hopeless much of the time.

So, it was extra nice to hear good news from him today. School starts Monday, so there have been new students and parents in and out of the school. One of the fathers came with his son and approached Brendon. He told him he had heard all kinds of wonderful things about his program and looked forward to his son moving to Northeast. He said he just wanted him to know he appreciated him, and if there is anything he needs from the city of Oakland Park, to let him know, and gave him his card. He told him to please send his kid to open workouts at 5, and he looked forward to working with him, and pocketed the card. He looks at the card later, and it is the Mayor of the city! First, he was already psyched that the guy complimented his program, then the bonus of him actually meaning he was there to help.


askye - Aug 05, 2025 1:36:35 pm PDT #8641 of 8643
Thrive to spite them

Oh Laura that is really cool!!

Steph I'm glad Tim got a really good report, even if it wasn't the cancer is gone.. hopefully it will die quickly with treatment.

-t Dungeon Crawler Carl will still be there when you get to it. I am in continual awe of Jeff Hays as a voice artist. It is easy to forget he is on person doing voices of all the characters. I saw he has narrated Dracula and I have to listen to that at some point.

Occasionally some of the characters do sound very similar but mostly I can't believe he can go from a kind of deep gruff voice to a higher pitched softer feminine voice.

There is a Webtoon of DCC and a graphic novel (I think) coming out at some point that will be new stories I think of other characters...things they are doing "off screen" so to speak (but I may be wrong). Oh and a table top RPG.


-t - Aug 05, 2025 1:54:58 pm PDT #8642 of 8643
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Nifty, Laura!

Some algorithm has been serving me up ads with videos for (I think) the audiobooks, and every time I see them I think "oh, askye said that was good" and now I will maybe remember this Jeff Hays tidbit. A good narrator makes such a difference! I'll get around to it eventually


DavidS - Aug 05, 2025 2:53:52 pm PDT #8643 of 8643
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Well done, Brendon! That's the kind of respect you earn by doing the work out of love for years.

A good friend had that exact procedure and I gave him a button for the Semi-Colon Appreciation Society. He loved it.

Badumpbump! Heh!


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