Happy birthday, meara!
What a complete clusterfuck. Pix, darling, preserving life includes your own. Lying in this instance is not evil.
Giles: I jump out of the circle, jump back in, and, and, shake my gourd. Buffy: Hey, I think I know this ritual. The ancient shamans were next called upon to do the Hokey-Pokey and to turn themselves around.
'Dirty Girls'
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.
amyparker - Aug 29, 2025 9:36:03 am PDT #9052 of 9060
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
amyparker - Aug 29, 2025 9:39:58 am PDT #9053 of 9060
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
I am utterly unsurprised that Utah is on the list. Jim is headed there for a conference in November and his luggage will include extra masks and a couple of the flu/COVID combo tests.
meara - Aug 29, 2025 10:23:25 am PDT #9054 of 9060
Thanks y’all! I woke up feeling like crap but am hopeful the meds are finally kicking in and I’ll have a nice evening DJing for dancing
erikaj - Aug 29, 2025 10:28:38 am PDT #9055 of 9060
Always Anti-fascist!
I feel like I should write a long post to catch up, as tribute,Meara, but it's kind of not like that around here, anymore.
Steph L. - Aug 29, 2025 10:31:31 am PDT #9056 of 9060
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Yesterday the physical therapist modified some of my exercises and completely got rid of a couple of exercises that were causing pain, and that combined with starting a tapering dose of prednisone this morning, my hip/quad feels SO CLOSE to normal! It's amazing. I don't think I realized how much pain I was in until it stopped. Like, I don't have to plan my breaks from the computer in terms of "What do I need to accomplish while I'm on my feet, so I can do it all at once so I don't have to get back up right away, because getting up hurts like a bitch?" I've just been hopping up for stuff without even thinking about it.
Pain blows, y'all.
Also cancer, in case I haven't mentioned it. Cancer blows. Cancer can go suck a dick.
erikaj - Aug 29, 2025 10:38:20 am PDT #9057 of 9060
Always Anti-fascist!
totally. David Simon threatens people with "A bag of unsalted dicks" from time to time and I'm sure he would approve of my borrowing that because he had an artist sister that died young of some aggressive version of it years ago. Cancer can eat stale unsalted dicks.
DavidS - Aug 29, 2025 10:38:56 am PDT #9058 of 9060
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Cancer can go suck a dick.
That would be a hard sell in Amsterdam's red light district.
Steph L. - Aug 29, 2025 10:46:32 am PDT #9059 of 9060
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Cancer can eat stale unsalted dicks.
Ha! Dicks with no seasoning at all!
erikaj - Aug 29, 2025 10:50:08 am PDT #9060 of 9060
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, you know, initially wouldn't have thought that rubbed it in, but it does, somehow.