Separately, glad to hear Lola is doing better than expected! And glad the crowd got together
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
Giles ,'Get It Done'
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.
-t - May 31, 2024 11:57:26 am PDT #890 of 3491
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
erikaj - May 31, 2024 1:40:57 pm PDT #891 of 3491
Always Anti-fascist!
Yes, this. Independent of what I think of these books, it's weird how some books totally get people obsessed with them.
smonster - May 31, 2024 3:55:56 pm PDT #892 of 3491
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
A friend gave me The Fountainhead in middle school. He’s now an entertainment lawyer.
I remember enjoying Seagull okay but I’m not anxious to revisit it.
Flirty packing ended up in a very awkward conversation. Because I am me, and I am awkward. But it’s all good.
DebetEsse - May 31, 2024 4:36:13 pm PDT #893 of 3491
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I read both Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and The Fountainhead as a young adolescent.
I'm sure it's emblematic of something that my big takeaway from Fountainhead was the architecture stuff. I liked visualizing the buildings
P.M. Marc - May 31, 2024 4:39:34 pm PDT #894 of 3491
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
CFM:
F: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance M: The Fountainhead (we'd live separate lives, but we were high school sweethearts for too long for me to choose F or C) C: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
P.M. Marc - May 31, 2024 4:39:55 pm PDT #895 of 3491
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Post Deleted!
EpicTangent - May 31, 2024 5:05:07 pm PDT #896 of 3491
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
CFM:
I never read any of them. From your comments, I feel very positive about that choice.
DavidS - May 31, 2024 8:06:10 pm PDT #897 of 3491
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Matilda took off for "Senior Brunch" this morning and was at school from 11 to 2:30, and I thought I might see her tonight.
But she called me and said her friend Mia had called and begged her to attend a concert tonight. Mia already had tickets but nobody else could go. Mia's dad would drive them to the concert in San Francisco and then bring them back home.
So I said okay.
On my way home from Haight Street I texted Matilda and asked when she was getting picked up.
Turns out Mia's brothers were also going to the concert, so Mia's dad said they should all take BART. Also it was at the Oakland Coliseum.
Okay, that's not what I agreed to but they should still be safe with Mia's two adult brothers.
Half hour ago I get a call from Matilda. Mia got scammed in buying the tickets and they were counterfeit and no good. Could I pay for the tickets for all four of them.
Matilda's debit card had a limit on it and wouldn't allow a $365 expense (even though she had more than that in the bank). So they tried to get me to pay it through PayPal by sending me a code...and it didn't work.
So basically a situation which started as a little bit of a stretch out of my comfort zone (last minute late night concert) got increasingly more chaotic with every update until the whole thing collapsed.
I am expecting them to BART home in defeat at this point, but they might surprise me by doing something stupid. Or rather some new stupid thing.
ETA: They snuck past security and got into the show.
aurelia - May 31, 2024 9:09:45 pm PDT #898 of 3491
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Oh dear. I hope the rest of their evening is relatively uneventful and that the PayPal code wasn't another scam.
CFM: I haven't read the other two, but I have read all of Rand's fiction. Reading her early works helped me understand how she got to where she did, but I certainly wouldn't want to live there (or even revisit). I guess that puts her in the F (been there, done that) category.
The book I've loaned to friends most often is Station Eleven. For randos on the beach... maybe Saving Fish from Drowning?
Laura - Jun 01, 2024 4:04:56 am PDT #899 of 3491
Our wings are not tired.
ETA: They snuck past security and got into the show.
The whole event sounds so much like teen Laura, except I probably would have pulled that stunt at 14.